Smoking not only costs money, it is anti-social and affects your health seriously. A smoker is easily prone to catching sore throats, skin rashes, chest infection, asthma, stress, migraine and many more illness. When you are pregnant and you risk smoking, it can easily harm your baby and there is a higher risk that your baby will be born premature or underweight.

Everyday 300 people die as a direct result of smoking - the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every twenty-four hours. As an average smoker your habit may cost you over ￡800 a year, but nowadays more and more of Britain's fourteen million smokers want to give up the habit - yet giving up is not going to be easy.

Even if you are really determined to stop, you may have found that willpower alone is not enough. All over the world people have tried different methods to stop smoking. Nicotine Patches, Hypnosis, sometimes they work, very often they don't.

Acupuncture is a tried and tested, proven way of providing helps to stop smoking. Acupuncture is a system of medicine which restores and maintains health by the insertion of fine needles into specific points on the surface of the body to rebalance and strengthen self-healing power.

It can treat many conditions especially addictions, such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, etc. Over the last ten years we have treated in the UK over 1,000 patients with tobacco addiction whose smoking histories vary from 2 years to 40 years. Among these patients about 680 of them stopped smoking completely after one course of acupuncture. 160 of them reduce the amount of cigarettes greatly after the first course and stop smoking completely after two or three courses. The rest of them needed a few more courses or regular treatment such as once every 3 months to help control the craving for Nicotine which depends on their lifestyles and how stressed they are.

Acupuncture can re-balance the vital energy of the body - the Qi which flows continuously around the meridian system, which is an energetic network of channels that not only connects the acupuncture points to each other but also directly influences the functioning of the internal organs and other controlling systems of the body.

There are 14 channels and 361 points in the body, with each point having different functions to treat different problems. In the treatment of stop smoking, we usually choose 6-7 points which connect to the lungs to re-balance its functions to stop the craving for Nicotine.

Some people imagine that acupuncture is a very long needle, sometimes even with a machine involved. It sounds painful and therefore frightening. This may be why many people will not go to see an acupuncturist. In fact, people who have been treated by acupuncture don't feel this way. They think it is a very relaxed way to help them stop smoking, it works fast and there is no pain or side effects. But before taking the treatment, you must make sure that the needles used are pre-sterilized and disposable.

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