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I remember a roommate of my in college who was a heavy smoker and was trying to quit. Friend of his was in Equinox (the multi-level marketing scheme) and gave h

I remember a roommate of my in college who was a heavy smoker and was trying to quit. Friend of his was in Equinox (the multi-level marketing scheme) and gave him some of these "no smoke" tablets to cure him of his smoking habit. He said all it did was give him intolerable diarrhea for a week and then he threw the rest of the tablets away. I would imagine most people would do the same thing with the oral medication if the effects were so drastic.

nnq 14y ago
I can't imagine what on earth could have such an effect when reacting with nicotine or other comps from cigarette smoke. Do you have any reference to those "no smoke" tablets? I'm really interested in the pharma/toxycology of such a thing... (In case they were not just laxatives :) )
- at-fates-hands 14y ago
  I don't know if this will help, but at least it might give you a lead on something. . . http://www.equinox-products.com/masterformulas.htm#No http://www.equinox-products.com/masterformulas.htm#No Smoking Nutrition if you really want to, you could order a bottle and do some tests on what exactly is in it. I'd be interested to see what they put in these things.
jff 14y ago
Things you buy from MLMs are generally overpriced, worthless, or both. Usually both.
- paul_f 14y ago
  Generalize much? The same could be said for retail stores I guess.
  - jff 14y ago
    It's overpriced by the definition of MLM. Normal retail: the store buys from a wholesaler and sells to you. MLM: Some guy buys from the wholesaler, and sells it to his downstreams, who sell it to their downstreams, through however many levels of the pyramid it takes to reach you, the sucker^Wcustomer. Of course, they don't really want to sell items to customers, the point of MLM is to get new vendors who will buy their stocks from you. As for crap, well, most of them sell "health products". So sometimes you're getting homeopathic "cures" (read: water), sometimes it's just $30/bottle fruit juice (Monavie). MLM is a scourge on people with low incomes who just want to get ahead. They use cult-like techniques to make victims believe they'll get rich if they can just recruit enough people, and make sure the victims ignore any advice or warnings from outside. The only people making money here are the ones who created the thing.

nnq 14y ago

I can't imagine what on earth could have such an effect when reacting with nicotine or other comps from cigarette smoke. Do you have any reference to those "no smoke" tablets? I'm really interested in the pharma/toxycology of such a thing... (In case they were not just laxatives :) )

at-fates-hands 14y ago
I don't know if this will help, but at least it might give you a lead on something. . . http://www.equinox-products.com/masterformulas.htm#No http://www.equinox-products.com/masterformulas.htm#No Smoking Nutrition if you really want to, you could order a bottle and do some tests on what exactly is in it. I'd be interested to see what they put in these things.

jff 14y ago

Things you buy from MLMs are generally overpriced, worthless, or both. Usually both.

paul_f 14y ago
Generalize much? The same could be said for retail stores I guess.
- jff 14y ago
  It's overpriced by the definition of MLM. Normal retail: the store buys from a wholesaler and sells to you. MLM: Some guy buys from the wholesaler, and sells it to his downstreams, who sell it to their downstreams, through however many levels of the pyramid it takes to reach you, the sucker^Wcustomer. Of course, they don't really want to sell items to customers, the point of MLM is to get new vendors who will buy their stocks from you. As for crap, well, most of them sell "health products". So sometimes you're getting homeopathic "cures" (read: water), sometimes it's just $30/bottle fruit juice (Monavie). MLM is a scourge on people with low incomes who just want to get ahead. They use cult-like techniques to make victims believe they'll get rich if they can just recruit enough people, and make sure the victims ignore any advice or warnings from outside. The only people making money here are the ones who created the thing.