The main ingredients of NicoBloc are completely natural and consist of Water, a Sugar Compound and Citric Acid but the secret of NicoBloc is in the blending and processing of these ingredients. There is also some approved food grade coloring and preservative. The ingredients have FDA approval as food additives.

Over the last 10 years, NicoBloc has been the central product featured in our workplace stop-smoking programs in the UK and Ireland. This encompassed thousands of smokers, demonstrating an average 60% cessation rate with a significant number of the remainder managing to substantially cut down.

The properties of NicoBloc were discovered in the 1980's in America. During the 1990's, thousands of smokers in the UK and Ireland took part in corporate 'stop smoking programs' using NicoBloc and achieved very significant results. Due to popular demand, NicoBloc and the core elements of the program were refined into a retail product and made available to the general public in Ireland and the UK during 2002.

NicoBloc is not a drug, nor is it consumed by the smoker and as such can be used by all smokers including expectant mothers, diabetics, etc. NicoBloc contains 100% FDA approved safe food grade ingredients and is applied to the filter tip of the cigarette before lighting. NicoBloc has medical clearance covering the UK and Ireland, Europe, United States, Japan and Australasia. NicoBloc traps up to 99% of the tar and nicotine normally inhaled when smoking filter cigarettes.

NicoBloc is a viscous fluid, which is applied to the filter immediately prior to smoking. It works by trapping the nicotine and tar in the filter of the cigarette as it is smoked. One drop traps approx. 33%, two drops 66% and three drops up to 99%.

In each pack there is one bottle of NicoBloc which contains approximately 700 drops. This equates to 35 packs of cigarettes at one drop per cigarette, 17 packs at two drops and about 12 packs at three drops. As cigarette consumption usually decreases as the number of drops goes up, a pack of cigarettes tends to last much longer than normal.

NicoBloc has a slight sweet taste (which not everybody can detect) but does not change the taste of the cigarette. Tar trapped in the filter on the other hand has an unpleasant taste. Normally when smoking, the tar comes into your mouth as a vapor, bypassing your taste buds and going straight down into your lungs where it turns into a thick nasty liquid.

A few people put on weight as a direct consequence of stopping smoking (average 4 lbs) since nicotine has an effect on the metabolic rate and is a mild appetite suppressant. However, the side effects of some quitting methods can make some people feel very hungry and eat more than usual. Because NicoBloc enables people to continue to smoke while being gradually weaned off nicotine, they are much less likely to suffer the usual hunger pangs associated with quitting.

The NicoBloc mini CD-Rom will fit in a standard PC CD-Rom drive. Narrated by Robert Powell, it contains an animated version of the printed booklet and shows how to apply NicoBloc to your cigarettes and how to use the NicoBloc nicotine test kit. There is an alternative VHS video version of this for people without computers or if the CD-Rom is incompatible with your computer (see exchange instructions in the NicoBloc pack).

NicoBloc allows you to stop smoking at your own pace, which is dependant upon your own individual circumstances and smoking habits. Extensive trials over a two year period have shown that a six week period is a comfortable time frame for most smokers. This reduction period allows the body to gradually adjust to the physical changes that occur when nicotine is withdrawn over a period of time.

NicoBloc is designed to work with cigarette filters. People who smoke roll-ups can benefit from NicoBloc by applying it to a mini-filter prior to rolling the cigarette.

NicoBloc has to be applied to your cigarette just before you smoke it. NicoBloc is active for about 15 minutes after applying it to your cigarette after which it dries out and makes the cigarette difficult to smoke.

By gradually increasing the amount of NicoBloc used on cigarettes over a period of weeks, the amount of nicotine and tar being consumed is gradually reduced. This helps the body to be gradually weaned away from nicotine addition at a gentle pace and gradually recover from the effects of the damaging tar. Because the smoker is still smoking, there isn't the issue of suddenly dropping the habit and not having anything to do with the hands, which also helps people to avoid eating more.

One drop of NicoBloc blocks approx. 1/3 of the nicotine, which has been found is enough to start the weaning off process but not enough to start nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Increasing to two drops after two weeks and three drops after three weeks gives a smoker's body time to adapt rather than causing abrupt reactions.

Primarily, NicoBloc fluid traps tar and nicotine thereby helping to eliminate nicotine addiction and reducing withdrawal symptoms. However, the application of NicoBloc causes the smoker to change their usual routine of automatically lighting up without thinking by introducing the extra step of putting NicoBloc on each cigarette just before it is smoked.

It is probably true that 4 or 5 drops of NicoBloc would approach eliminating tar and nicotine by 100%. However, with this much NicoBloc in the filter, the cigarette would be more difficult to smoke and would probably reduce a smokers desire to keep with the program, so that the end result might be less cessation rather than more cessation.