Laser Therapy
Low-level laser therapy for smoking cessation operates on principles similar to the 5,000 year old ancient Asian healing art of Acupuncture. Acupuncture helped millions of people worldwide to kick the smoking habit. Oriental Medicine has thousands of years long track record in treating all kinds of health problems. Acupuncture is very successful in calming and relaxing the mind, reducing anxiety and alleviating depressive feelings. Acupuncture is known to reduce tension, increase circulation, and enable the body to relax more deeply. Additional acupoints may be included to reduce appetite and to stimulate the healing of organs most affected by smoking.
Acupuncture and its subspecialty auricular therapy (ear acupuncture) have been extensively researched and is widely utilized in Europe for treatment of addictions. In United State since 1970 National Acupuncture Detox Association conducted research and provided auricular therapy for various addictions. NADA work was so successful that now is offered in court mandated treatments for drug offenders. We will use a power of laser to increase the therapeutic stimulation of the treatment and to eliminate pain and fear associated with needles.
When the pulsating light of the laser is applied to certain acupuncture points, it is absorbed by the skin and cells to stimulate the endorphins that help block out the cravings while leaving you with a feeling of well being. Mechanism of action of laser therapy for tobacco addiction is that acupuncture and especially auricular therapy, replaces the action of nicotine. This allows to counteract abstinence syndrome and helps gradual change of the organism to tobacco free state.
Just as cigarettes raise endorphin levels in your body to make you feel relaxed, so does Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT). By naturally elevating levels of endorphins, laser therapy allows you to eliminate nicotine from your body while avoiding the cravings, stress, and irritability most commonly associated with withdrawal. The difference between cigarettes and laser treatment is the laser naturally stimulates your cells to release endorphins over a much longer period of time - 3 to 5 days versus 1 to 2 HOURS for a cigarette. It takes between 24 to 72 hours for nicotine to leave your body completely.
In addition acupuncture helps to break pathological connections which form various pathological systems. It is known that for any habitual activity a program is created in a human brain which is fixed in a certain structures of the brain in a form of functional strong connections. All such programs, including one for smoking, work automatically. Treating skin areas which reflexively connected to the corresponding brain structures can affect these automatic programs. Especially effective in this case is a treatment using stimulation similar in it’s characterizes to brain bioelectric activity. These are exactly the parameters utilized with laser acupuncture. This way the habitual stereotype of addiction is being changed. This explains that the best results are seen in patients with long standing habit.
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