Quit Tea Company History
The Story Of How Quit Tea Was Invented, The Research, Development, And Testing Of Quit Tea As A Smoking Cessation Alternative.
Serendipity - "making a fortunate discovery by accident."
After graduating from college I, Matthew Bucklin, decided that to do a detox. I made the decision to spend a month living completely healthy by staying away from cigarettes and alcohol, using detox herbs, eating well, and getting lots of exercise and sleep.
The detox went well and I felt great. It was a little later I made the coincidental discovery that I had completely lost my taste for smoking, I no longer craved cigarettes and when I did try smoking it was very unpleasant. This inspired further investigation. I read books on herbs and consulted with herbalists and I found out that there was very possibly some connection between the detox and not wanting to smoke.
I continued researching herbs and also the science behind breaking an addiction to cigarettes in a quest to help anyone that want to smoking and live a healthier life. After extensive research and experimentation on friends who wanted to try to quit smoking, without nicotine replacement products or other pharmaceutical products, I found a formula that I thought worked.
At the time I was working as a pharmaceutical analyst in New York. I had written a patent for my tea formula but had not yet filed it. Then in 2007 when Pfizer launched the drug Chantix, with many potential side effects and low rate of success, I realized I had to do something with my Quit Tea idea.
It took a while but in 2009 I finally got around to starting Quit Tea LLC. I set up the company, the website, the supply chain, and found 65 people to test Quit Tea. They all used Quit Tea for free for 9 weeks and I collected their feed back in a series of surveys, over the course of the spring 2010. The results were fantastic, 11 out of 65 quit smoking for good (17%), over 60% said they had "less desire to smoke" when drinking Quit Tea, and over 80% would recommend it to others.
So finally in May 2010 we started selling Quit Tea online, and wholesale to health food stores directly in November 2010. So far we have helped hundreds of people quit smoking and received loads of excellent feed back from consumers, who have finally quit smoking, and professionals in the field of smoking cessation such as chiropractors, drug and alcohol counselors, hypnotherapist, doctors, acupuncturists, and more.