Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Smoking Cessation

Regular Sessions of Acupuncture will help in Smoking Cessation and Break Addiction to Smoking.

Smoking is one of the biggest public health threats worldwide and it is the leading cause of preventable death, disease and impoverishment. It is one of the main risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including cancer, lung diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Quitting smoking at any time or stage is beneficial to a person’s health as well as to society. Currently recommended intervention methods of smoking cessation include medications, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), hypnosis, education, behavioral intervention, etc. Their applications are limited because of limited efficacy and side effects.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapy, including auricular acupressure, body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, herbal formulas, qigong, etc., is widely used to aid smoking cessation. 

Prominent effects of acupuncture are increases in the levels of enkephalin, epinephrine, endorphin, serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine in the central nervous system and plasma that might mediate substance abuse.

And here are the scientific papers that support:

 
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Conclusion: Acupuncture application provides the patients with deterioration in the taste of smoking, decrease in desire of smoking, and the obstruction of psychological symptoms that appear as a result of smoking cessation.


 
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Conclusion: It was concluded that acupuncture was a safe method for smoking cessation and was effective in helping smokers to quit.


 
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Conclusion: Body and auricular acupuncture is effective in smoking cessation and should be considered as an alternative to help smokers in quitting, especially for those whose past attempts using conventional methods were in vain.


TCM(Traditional Chin Med), TCM Wellness, TCM and ScienceXiang Jun LimDr (TCM) Xiang Jun tcm, science, acupuncture, smoking, addiction, smoking cessation