Laser Smoking Cessation – Is It Really Effective?

By: Ayu Wuryandari

Laser Smoking Cessation Treatment

To help people stop smoking, laser smoking cessation method has been created and you may have heard about it or read it in a newspaper or something else. But, what is laser smoking cessation and does it work well? These things may be important for you.

Every smoker knows that it is very difficult to escape from the smoking habit. Their thoughts have been chained by the difficulty to quit smoking. But, the laser smoking cessation itself may not the salvation as they hope. Because of it is developed from ancient acupuncture, the method that derived without scientific process.

Before being confused by a question of why laser light instead of metal needles to be a more effective variation of acupuncture, you should also know what the laser smoking cessation is and how it works.

The laser smoking cessation is done by the laser technician who directs the controlled beam of infrared onto points of your body just like an ordinary acupuncture process. The laser usually shot on your nose, your ear and your wrist.

Laser smoking cessation treatment resemble to smoking process. When you are smoking, nicotine will stimulate your body to release endorphins, which will make you feel rejoice and a sense of well-being. But nicotine will make you being addictive and in the long run it can cause several hazardous diseases such as lung cancer, heart attack and liver problems. By laser smoking cessation, the task of nicotine in stimulating the secretion of endorphins is substituted. So, you will get endorphins without nicotine.

Based on a research by Cochrane Collaboration, acupuncture has no better result in helping smokers stop smoking than quitting cold turkey. It is only useful in lessening pain, not to treat the addiction to nicotine. It is almost the same with laser smoking cessation. They have not proven their high effectiveness.

If you want to take a quit smoking method, you should be careful to choose the right for you. Try to learn it well before taking this unscientific process to face nicotine addiction and tobacco dependence. Laser smoking cessation is not the only solution. Even cold turkey has the better effectiveness if you do it with your strong intention, willpower and hard effort. Laser smoking cessation still needs more evidences.

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