This herb pictured above, LOBELIA, is the secret weapon I recommend to all my clients who want to quit smoking cigarettes. The compound in this plant called lobeline plugs into your nicotine receptors, removing cravings for smoking. You can buy capsules online or in health food stores. I like the Solaray brand.

Now what about the habit itself? I recommend people roll their own herbal cigarettes sans tobacco and buy bulk mullein leaf which heals the lungs and then add some relaxation herbs such as lemon balm, lavender and skullcap to your blend.

Another handy tool for quitting tobacco cigarettes is to log how many you smoke each day and aim to smoke one less tomorrow. And keep going until you hit zero! 100% success rate with these approaches thus far.

You can do it and the Earth abounds with powerful tools to help support us in our journey to radiant health!

Now as for the spiritual reason for this addiction?

Tobacco medicine is a protector spirit and empaths are naturally drawn to it to create stronger energetic boundaries!

As an empath myself, I have experienced the trouble that comes from taking on other people's suffering.

One day I asked tobacco spirit for help. I knew He is known for grounding energy as well as for being a protector for shamanic work. Tobacco spirit showed himself to me visually in the form of a beautiful Indian chief ancestor. He said to me, "The only protection ever needed is unconditional love."

Tobacco was saying that we need to respond to EVERYTHING with love. Not just loving nice things or nice people or the "good."

Unconditional love means radical acceptance of all that is, was, could be. It means embracing everyone and everything. It means a 100% positive perspective. It means finding a higher perspective and embracing even the ugly and messy things in the world, and in our lives, as gifts.

May these words help and heal.

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(Lobelia Photo by Wayside Gardens)