# Has anyone tried that new "Smoke Away" system. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 3, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825 "2003-05-03T06:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![InLikeFlynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f19dbf/32.png) [@InLikeFlynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLikeFlynn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/1 "2003-05-03T06:36:17Z")
I see the infomercial all over the TV. It’s some type of herbal cocktail that is unbelievably guaranteed to make you quit smoking in 7 days. Does anyone have the dope on this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/2 "2003-05-03T11:32:10Z")
Man, the net is [flooded](http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Smoke+Away%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)with this stuff right now. Each site no doubt the destination of millions of pieces of spam being mailed out _as I type_ 😛 I’m unable to find out how long nicotine remains in the bloodstream. Most of the sites say this thing takes 7 extra days of some other expensive pill thing. That’s 14 days without smoking. I figure if someone can get that far without smoking, they’ve probably kicked the habit. Don’t have any info on how it affects your cigarette desires; sorry. My personal opinion? Well, lets just say I wish I’d thought of it first… ---
**Author:** ![InLikeFlynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f19dbf/32.png) [@InLikeFlynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLikeFlynn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/3 "2003-05-03T12:40:52Z")
Anybody try it? ---
**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/4 "2003-05-03T15:57:03Z")
**Nanoda** , technically, it takes 63 days to break a habit (or so i’ve heard). ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/5 "2003-05-03T16:08:16Z")
**gypsy** - that seems like a fairly arbitrary number. Heard where? 63? 42? ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/6 "2003-05-03T17:49:57Z")
It won’t work. If there was a legitimate medication that could make that claim, pharmaceutical companies would be all over it. You think some two-bit snake oil operation is going to scoop Pfizer? Most likely, the guarantee is elaborate and complicated, and requires the purchaser to send in various forms and so forth. It’s probably designed, like many rebates, to be forgotten about or not bothered with. If the product isn’t very expensive, or is an amount that people would be willing to let go to avoid irritating effort, so much more so. Either that, or it works as advertised. But I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-that-new-smoke-away-system/172825/7 "2003-05-03T21:10:05Z")
Every ad I’ve seen for Smoke Away also has a bottle of weight-loss pills thrown in as a freebie. I think that says it all, doesn’t it?