Some Foodstuffs Change Cigarette Taste

What do a slice of ham, a glass of juice and a plate of fried potato have in common?Based on new research, eating any of these prods seems to reduce the taste of cigs.

The research also discovered that cigarett taste is intensified after meat consumption or drinking alcohol or coffee with caffeine.Collected together, these data increase the possibility of distributing the so-called "smoker’s diet", which aims at helping to quit easier.

The discussed study author F. Joseph McClernon, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C and a group of researches say that not only nicotine addiction theme is relevant in his research, but taste and sensory characteristics of smoking are the matter of the research. Everything new can facilitate the smoker’s life.

In the April issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research, the group mentioned above rendered their analysis of questionnaires applied to 209 adult male and female smokers who had already taken part in one of six prior smoking studies between 2002 and 2004.

All the respondents smoked from 10 to 15 cigarettes per day and felt good. The authors interrogated the smokers to trace which foods they felt either intensified or deteriorated the taste of smoking cigarettes. The amount of cigs smoked daily was fixed, as well as the participants’ choice of cigrette brand, type, length and strength.

On average, the respondents smoked about 22 cigarettes per day. Almost 47 percent smoked menthol cigs. Approximately 40 percent of smokers smoked "light" cigarettes, the other 40 percent smoked full-flavor brands.

Almost 45 percent of the smokers referred to some kind of foodstuff that made cigarette taste worse, while almost 70 percent identified foodstuff, which improved cigs taste.

Fruits and vegetables, dairy produce and drink without caffeine belonged to the foods considered to be worsening the taste of tobacco and cigarettes.

Stale cigarettes and a smoky lodgment also damped cigarette taste.