Acupuncture and smoking

Does anybody has experience with acupuncture helping to stop smoking? Do you think it can help?

I've tried this before in Hong Kong and it didn't seem to work for me. If anyone has tried this in Shanghai and worked (!) I'd like to give it another go.

Call 2881 8267 for Quality Chinese Medical Centre. They have very good reference on that. It is located in Central.btw, the web site is www.qualitytcm.com

Dear Friends,


I smoked 30 a day for 16 years and quit overnight with no patches, no books and no treatments. It’s a trick, a psychological trick that says smoking is incredibly difficult to give up. This is what the tobacco companies want you to think. The truth of the matter is tobacco companies put out stories like its more difficult to give up smoking than it is to give up heroin. They don’t want you to give up.


Truth of the matter is, it is irritating for the first 2 weeks and then you are done its over your don’t smoke anymore. I am nothing special yet I gave up completely, I know I will never smoke again, I am completely done with it.


I received a phone call that my dad had cancer and that was it for me. I light up my last cigarette and said to myself I will never smoke again.


There is never a good time to give up, there will always be important meetings were you think you need a fag afterwards or before, social events were the idea of going out and having a good time without a smoke is just preposterous. Well its all a load of bollox designed to keep you in the smoking trap.


I spent some time in a cancer ward watching my father die and watching young men in the late 20’s hooked up to drips with bald heads from chemo and needless to say its just not worth it. Tobacco companies are laughing at you whilst you line their pockets for practically guarantee you will have a very very slow and painful death.


Scare stories aside, It really is easy once you really decided to do give up. Not I am giving up but I know I wont be able to hack it. People who do that will eventually smoke again even if the have given up for years. No decide that you will give up and never smoke again. In the first two weeks tell yourself no matter how irritating if may become I am not in any pain and giving up smoking will not kill me, quite the opposite.


Another myth is that when you are in the process of given up it makes you act like a complete lunatic. Again Tobacco company propaganda to make you not want to quit.

How youy act whilst going through this irritating process is your decision, your choice, giving up smoking does not make you a lunatic you do that all on your own.


Do yourself a favor light up one more, enjoy it and then quit!


2nd best thing I have done in my life

These seminars should be coming to HK by summer. At least, so I hope.

Have done Allen Carr in Hong Kong. Nine years and counting. Couldn't say thanks enough to the friend who took me along when she quit. She is also smoke free.


Check this site for details of the May courses.

http://www.eventclicks.com/stopsmoking/index.htm


Pass this information on to anyone you know who wants to stop smoking - and be happy about it.

Pumpkin> My friend's former boss went to Easyway in Hong Kong organised by Event Clicks and everything was ok.


I'm happy for you for making the decision to go ahead. It's not easy to quitting smoking (I know) because it's such a part of your life you wonder how you will be without it. Well, you'll be free! At least, that's how I felt.


My friend, who I went with, had to have an emergency operation about a year after we quit. The anaethetist said that even that one year of not smoking made a huge difference in lowering the risk of the operation.


It's really is the best thing you can do for your health. In four hours I went from a pack (or more) a day to zero and never touched another ciggie. I would say good luck but all you need to do is go to the Easyway seminar with a real desire to stop. So instead I say "you go girl"!

Pumpkin> I tried the patches, cold turkey and hypnosis. Nothing worked. I doubted Easyway would use because of my lack of willpower, although I desperately wanted to stop. Four hours - that's all it took. It as almost like someone waved a magic wand over my head and I felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted from my shoulders... it really was like a burden had been lifted. BTW, no one believed I had quit because I wasn't all grouchy (I had warned people in advance I was quitting - again) and instead I was really happy about it. My friend was also happy and said she didn't stop singing to herself for the first few days.


Only side effect was weight gain - a whooping [joking] 1.5 kgs! The therapist will tell you how to avoid gaining weight and it works cos I'm one of those people who can gain weight sniffing freshly baked bread.


Also you may get dreams of relapsing. It's common and nothing to worry about. It does not mean you will smoke again.


Post here or send me an AXmail to let me know how you get on.

http://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/communityevents/

Ed, FYI, I could only find the link to "Community Events" by returning to the "HOME" page - which I rarely do except to after logging out. It does not come down on the Resources drop-down menu. This is why I could not find it on the site.