According to World Health Organisation’s (WHO) statistics, the most common fatal disease is lung cancer in many countries. According to another research, 25% of the lung cancer is due to cigarette that includes toxic carbon monoxide, nicotine and coal tar.
Although people like smoking, they also try to give up smoking due to its adverse effects. Several methods, include patches and gums, have been developed to help them. The last alternative one is oat extract.
According to a pilot study published in the journal Pharmacometrics, oat extract can decrease tobacco consumption from about 20 to fewer than nine cigarettes per day.
The oat extract obtained from ancient type of wild oats by Frutarom and marketed under name Neuravena.
Neuravena was tested by researches from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Fujii on eighth Japanese smokers (average age 32.5) and given daily supplements of 900 mg of Neuravena for 28 months. The researches reported that the average cigarette smoking decreased from 19.5 per day to 8.9 per day. Furthermore, the carbon monoxide levels in the breath of the participants decreased from 17 ppm to 11.9 ppm
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