Can acupuncture help to stop smoking?
Nobody in today's society can be totally ignored hazards related to smoking. Acupuncture can offer powerful support for those who want to quit.
Millions of dollars each year are devoted to smoking cessation programs. However, many smokers have given up trying to stop smoking simply because they are too difficult to fight their addiction.
Acupuncture May simply providing additional leverage that the smoker must finally stop for good. A recent Article prevention Journal of Medicine highlights a study on acupuncture and its effectiveness in helping patients quit smoking.
Acupuncture uses small needles of different lengths and sizes in order to stimulate the skin in a particular area. The area chosen for the stimulation is supposed to correspond to the meridian, or trail, which provides energy for the body system affected or region.
For Thus, for smoking, needles are inserted in areas that affect the energy flow in the mouth, lungs and respiratory system, and parts of the brain that nicotine affects desire.
In the study described in preventive medicine, the participants were smokers longstanding wants to quit. They were randomized to one of two groups.
The control group received acupuncture that had nothing to do with matters affecting smoking. The experimental group received acupuncture treatments to help to stop smoking.
Interestingly, the experimental group reported less craving and also effectively reduced the quantity of cigarettes smoke compared with the control group.
But the experimenters do not rely on the word of the only participants. They also examined the blood of each group for chemicals that are left in the body when a person smokes, and these tests have also confirmed that the experimental subjects had smoked less.
In fact, over time, twice as many subjects in the experimental group were able to quit smoking completely from the control group.
The experimenters stressed the importance of several factors in the reproduction of these results. They say it is important for the patient receive acupuncture treatment to quit smoking for a minimum of twice a week for three weeks, so that treatment is fully effective. Participants also learned to practice self-acupressure on their ears to enhance treatment and help cravings pass.
Because not all people will be able to completely stop using this method, it is recommended that patients use acupuncture in addition other methods such as nicotine replacement or support groups.
It seems that in the worst case, even if a person does not smoking using acupuncture can help a person to significantly reduce the amount they smoke. But all efforts are made to stop smoking can improve the health of a person in the long term.
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