Acupuncture and Smoking Cessation for Disease Prevention and Health Care

On August 28, 2005, the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress approved the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which entered into force in China on January 1, 2006, and a great deal of work has been done on tobacco control in China over the past three years, with some success. However, the reality tells us that the situation of tobacco control is not optimistic. According to a report of the World Health Organization, at least 5 million people die prematurely every year due to smoking, about 90% of the 600,000 new lung cancer cases found every year and 1/3 of the various cancer cases are due to smoking, 75% of the patients with chronic bronchitis and 25% of the heart disease patients are also due to smoking, these figures are how alarming ah! Jinan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Wan Hong cotton Smoking is a bad habit harmful to health. According to scientists, cigarette smoke contains nicotine, smoke tar, benzopyrene, carbon monoxide and more than a hundred kinds of toxic compounds. It is related to the onset of many diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and other diseases in humans. It can increase the incidence of many kinds of malignant tumors, through the investigation found that the death of lung cancer and smoking-related people even up to about 80%, and lung cancer has become a threat to the health of the Chinese people, one of the top killers. Recent studies have shown that the lag effect caused by smoking takes about 20 years to manifest itself, and some of the current lung cancer deaths correspond to the smoking pattern of the 1970s, when smoking was on the basis of tickets and cigarette production was not high, and it is estimated that the lung cancer mortality rate in China will rise in the next 20 years. Smoking can also cause fetal malformations and contribute to the development of certain congenital diseases. Therefore, controlling smoking is much more powerful than any individual approach to preventive medicine as a whole in promoting health, preventing disease and prolonging life. As early as 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global smoking cessation campaign with the slogan “Smoking or health, the choice is yours”, and declared an annual world smoking cessation day. Smoking is hazardous to health, mainly in terms of affecting sleep, appetite and energy. In addition, smoking can cause chronic bronchitis and atherosclerosis, lung cancer and insufficient blood supply to the heart and other diseases. The latest research shows that smoking will have a negative effect on the brain, leading to a decline in IQ. The motherland medicine, tobacco contains harmful substances, long-term inhalation, will lead to the body of yin and yang imbalance, internal organs and meridians dysfunction, thus triggering a variety of diseases, directly endangering the health of the body, the application of acupuncture to quit smoking, can be said to be the emergence of a new force. Acupuncture smoking cessation, acupuncture in ancient Chinese medicine acupuncture books have not seen records, it is a modern development of acupuncture health care. This method was first proposed by foreign practitioners in the 1950s. However, it was widely developed in the 1970s, including Japan, the United States, France, the former Soviet Union and other countries. Because it is simple and economical, rapid and obvious results, without any toxic side effects, more and more by the attention of medical workers and smokers welcome. At present, it has spread to many countries all over the world. The so-called acupuncture to quit smoking, refers to the corresponding acupoints through acupuncture, eliminating due to long-term smoking tobacco products containing nicotine, when the interruption of smoking appeared after the withdrawal syndrome, such as: fatigue, irritability, frequent yawning, anxiety, hunger, inattention and a series of symptoms of addiction, through the treatment of a series of addiction quickly return to the normal physiological state, so the acupuncture to quit smoking is safe, the efficacy of the treatment is significant, is the better choice of the method of smoking cessation. After five to ten times of treatment, quitters will feel choked when they smell smoke, and try to smoke again, they will feel the taste is bitter and stinky, which is simply disgusting.