Stop Smoking with Acupuncture
Tobacco is the single greatest cause of disease and premature death in America today, but with acupuncture you can take concrete steps to stop smoking, renewing both your health and your pocketbook.
I use a combination of ear acupuncture and body acupuncture to help you lose your taste for smoking.
Most people can stop smoking in three treatments. If you feel you still need treatment, the fourth treatment will be at no charge. But you will save money with your first treatment when you stop buying your daily pack.
Tobacco is responsible for more than 430,000 deaths each year. According to the American Cancer Society, about 45 million Americans (21% of the population) were smokers in 2005, the last year for which data are available. While this represents an improvement from 1965, when 42% of the population smoked, it still takes an enormous health toll.
The American Cancer Society also reports that while tobacco main active ingredient is nicotine, an addictive drug, other components of cigarette smoke include tar (made up of more than 4,000 chemicals, including 60 known to cause cancer), cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, methanol (wood alcohol), acetylene (the fuel used in welding torches), ammonia, and the poisonous gases nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide. Despite what the commercials suggest, it's not merely pleasure you're inhaling.
Smoking is implicated in many health-related diseases, including but not limited to:Chronic obstructive lung disease
Chronic bronchitis
Emphysema
Lung cancer
Mouth cancer
Laryngeal cancer
Throat cancer
Oral cancer
Esophageal cancer
Urinary tract cancer
Kidney cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Cervical cancer
Heart disease
Peripheral artery disease
Blood vessel disease
Polycythemia
Female infertility
Early menopause
Low birth weight
Vaginal bleeding
Miscarriage
Premature delivery
Stillbirth
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
It's your human right to smoke if you wish to, but it's not your human right to smoke near others. The American Cancer Society reports that "There is strong evidence that ETS [environmental tobacco smoke] causes serious damage to human health. ETS causes about 3,400 lung cancer deaths and about 46,000 deaths from heart disease each year in healthy nonsmokers who live with smokers. It can also affect nonsmokers by causing asthma and other respiratory problems, eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and dizziness. Children whose parents smoke are more likely to suffer from asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, ear infections, coughing, wheezing, and increased mucus production."
For your sake and for the sake of your loved ones, stop smoking today with safe and effective acupuncture treatment.
For more information, please call Mid-Hudson Acupuncture at 845-255-4635.
