Acupuncture to stop smoking can be a very effective way of helping because a recent study showed that 40% of smokers that received acupuncture to stop smoking combined with anti-smoking counseling were able to successfully quit smoking. Acupuncture treatments to stop smoking are usually a combination of body and auricular ear acupuncture combined with Chinese herbal medicine.
These treatments for quitting smoking will help in several ways:-
Acupuncture helps you to relax and de-stress by diverting your stress levels that tend to make you smoke.
Acupuncture helps balance you body, by helping you while detoxifing after you have quit.
Acupuncture can significantly reduce the nicotine cravings, this will help make it easier to stop smoking.
In traditional acupuncture needles are used on the auricular points of the ears, nose, hands, wrist and forearm. Three different areas are used as treatment points for breaking the addiction to nicotine by blocking the body’s need for the drug, treating diet points helps control appetite and avoid weight gain and treating stress and relaxation points helps avoid withdrawal symptoms such as irritability and anxiety.
When someone is addicted to nicotine they have a high level of endorphins in their body, when they give up smoking these endorphin levels drop, by using auricular acupuncture this maintains these levels of endorphins and stabilizes their release. This creates a sense of relaxation and calm, allowing withdrawal symptoms like stress, restlessness and cravings to be treated.
Acupuncture is a practice that has been used for a long time in Eastern Asia and is said to be effective in treating many alignments like smoking addiction. This treatment usually requires several treatment a few times a week over a few months to get maximum results. Research indicates that acupuncture is very effective in the cessation of smoking with some people having reduced craving and twice as likely to succeed than those without acupuncture treatment.