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Laser acupuncture reduces cigarette smoking: a preliminary report
Zalesskiy VN, Belousova IA, Frolov GV
Acupunct Electrother Res 1983;8(3-4):297-302
The stop-smoking campaign constitutes a component of the cardiovascular and
oncology disease-prevention programme. In the study, laser-acupuncture was
used in heavy smoking elderly patients with peripheral vascular diseases, as
well as in those with lung cancer, to relieve the nicotine abstinence
symptoms at the preoperational management stage. To produce a stable
negative response to nicotine there was additionally applied steel needle (Seirlin-Kasei
& Co., F.R.G.) insertion at cavity of concha, tragus and antitragus
areas. In each of 85 patients there were noted positive trends, vegetative
and somatic manifestations of abstinence were eliminated, desire to smoke
was reduced. Most of them (71%) stopped smoking completely. The results have
proven the high therapeutic value of laser-acupuncture in treating for
chronic smoking.
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