Are you ready to quit smoking?

Are you ready to quit smoking?

Posted on March 30, 2010 at 3:05 AM

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I visited two of my old clients from my pervious career recently. We spend one and half hour together but only 15 minutes talked about the actual work. They mostly were interested to know about Acupuncture. One of them asked me “ can you make me stop smoking?” I looked at him and said “ Do you really want to quit?” He put his head down and said “ half yes, half no” I told him” when you really ready then we will work together.”

Acupuncture treatment is a very powerful tool for removing smoking addiction. This treatment is not very popular among the people who are planning to quit. However it is a very effective and reliable method for quitting smoking which has no side effects at all. Acupuncturist uses a method called the NADA protocol to treat smoking addition. Protocol was originally developed in Harlem for the stopping of heroin addiction. As research progress, they found the treatment was effective for many other addictions. It was usually used in combine with herb medicine and counseling.

Treatment plan as follow:

1. Ear point will be used

Shen Men: to normalize sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system and also to help handle the stress and clam the mind.

Kidney: to give the will power to fight the addition

Liver: help with the stress and also de toxic

Lung: clear Lung because smoking damage the Lung

2. Regular Acupuncture Point will be used

Lu7(Lieque): Luo-Connecting point, Confluent Point for Lung and respiratory.

In order to help patient to deal with the craving and the irritability we will put the ear seed (small seed from plant) on several ear points. This will help them to fight the smoking when they are away from the  clinic.

3. Ear seed will be placed

Mouth: suppress the craving and change the taste

Kidney: will power

Liver: detoxic

Lung: clear

Shen Men: clam irritability

   Acupuncture is not a magic and I am not a magician can make cigarettes disappear.” One thing I would like to point out is, Smoking is also a habit but a bad habit. For example, people like to smoke when they have doing a heavy thinking or discussing serious manner or a social event. Not all smokers are addicted to the nicotine. So finding something to replace your bad habit would be helpful for the treatment. Acupuncture treatment help patient has less desire to smoke but the final decision still depended on the patient.