Welcome to the Healing Room
Smoking is a cause of major diseases in the world today. Every day more people have realized the importance of getting rid of this terrible addiction and to meet this need the health field has various aids to help the smoker in this difficult passage to get rid of the addiction, and acupuncture has proven to be an effective therapy with respect to stop smoking.
Treatment with Acupuncture aims to calm the patient, helping him to pass through the period of abstinence, reduce the effects of nicotine withdrawal and finally, reducing the harmful effects of smoking and restoring the health of the Lungs.
In our
clinic we use acupuncture (with very fine needles at points throughout the
body), and auricular acupuncture (stimulating the reflex points on the ear).
The marriage of these 2 tools aims to calm the patient, helping him to pass
through the period of abstinence, reduce the effects of nicotine withdrawal
and finally, reducing the harmful effects of smoking and restoring the
health of the Lungs.
The sessions are usually treatments twice a week of
auricular and body acupuncture in week 1 & 2 and one final treatment in week
3. A treatment involves one ear being stimulated by laser and mustard seeds
on tiny plasters being stuck in the opposite ear. Each treatment lasts
approximately 30-45 minutes.
The ear seeds allow the client to press acupuncture points themselves between treatments and therefore bring instant relief from cravings.
Up to three times daily, the client squeezes each seed between their fingers, while using a breading technique.
If required, the client can give additional squeezes at times of stress or if he/she feels tempted to smoke. The ear seeds will be changed at each treatment session.
