Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are currently recruiting individuals who have quit smoking cigarettes or reduced their smoking (even temporarily) after an experience with a psychedelic, for participation in an online survey. Our team has previously conducted innovative research on the effects of compounds including psilocybin, dextromethorphan, and salvinorin A.

The goal of this survey is to learn more about whether psychedelic drugs are associated with reduction or cessation of cigarette smoking. We want to characterize people's experiences in non­laboratory settings in which taking a psychedelic may have led to reducing or quitting smoking. For the purposes of this survey, we will be asking specifically about individuals who have quit smoking cigarettes or reduced their smoking (even temporarily) after experiences with psilocybin (magic) mushrooms, LSD, morning glory seeds, mescaline, peyote cactus, San Pedro cactus, DMT, or ayahuasca. This research study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The survey is completely anonymous (IP addresses will not be recorded) and will require 40-45 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating, please click the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nonsmoker. Your participation is voluntary and will not be financially compensated.

Participants must be 18+ years of age, speak/write English fluently, and have experienced a reduction or cessation of cigarette smoking after an experience with one of the psychedelic substances listed above. For more information, please contact the researchers via the site's private messaging system.

Principal Investigator: Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D.
Protocol: NA_00084260

I filled out that survey about a month ago or so i think, it was like right after i first heard about it in a recent Johns Hopkins mushroom video. I myself quit smoking Tobacco christmas day last year, and here wednesday i will be one whole year free from Tobacco.

I used Ayahuasca multiple, multiple times last year, as well as Mimosa with Moclobemide and the day i quit smoking, i ran out of Tobacco and just didn't wanna go buy anymore, and after some thinking it over i saw that Tobacco wasn't doing anything for me so i just up and quit, never looked back.

There were ZERO withdrawal symptoms or cravings. I'm also a daily Cannabis smoker so maybe that helped out a little towards the end there. But inevitably i believe it was the DMT+MAOI in both forms, Ayahuasca and Pharmahuasca, that i feel broke me out of my addiction to Tobacco, and i also realized that a Tobacco addiction is purely mental, not physical.

And just to clarify, the experiences i had weren't the reason for quitting Tobacco, quitting Tobacco merely came as benefit of experimenting with Ayahuasca. I believe it was Ayahuasca's chemical means, and not necessarily experiential means, that allowed me to quit Tobacco so easily, and i do mean it was easy, easy, easy, when usually quitting Tobacco is one of the hardest things for someone to do.

I had tried quitting several times before Ayahuasca, but i feel all those times i was merely saying i wanted to quit instead of actually put forth the effort to quit. But once Ayahuasca came around, i was from that moment on, bigger than my addiction to Tobacco, and it no longer had it's stranglehold on me.

Thanks for completing our survey Sabnock & congrats on staying smoke-free! Quitting smoking is a very difficult task, and we are currently investigating ways that psychedelics can help people break free from this addiction (for more info see here: http://youtu.be/rxfglqGPiWc). So far this survey has collected responses from more than 165 people in 20 different countries who have reported quitting or reducing smoking for some period of time after experiences with serotonergic psychedelics. Our results will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal sometime next year, and I will make sure to come back and post them here when that happens. Cheers!

The main message I took from my first experience of dmt was to stop smoking cigarettes, and to work on my health and diet in general. I have quit smoking now and havnt gone back. (Currently vaping) Will fill this in when I have the chance.