A standardized oat extract may reduce cravings for smoking, and offer potential quitters an alternative to the patches and gums.
A daily supplement of an oats herb extract was found to reduce tobacco consumption from about 20 to fewer than nine cigarettes per day, according to results of a pilot study.
Researchers recruited eight smokers who were given daily 900 mg supplements of 900 mg of the extract for 28 months. At the end of the study, the average number of cigarettes smoked decreased from 19.5 per day to 8.9 per day.