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Stop Smoking with Acupuncture Today

September 15th, 2009

Since 2004, more than a dozen countries have adopted national indoor smoke-free policies that are being implemented or will be implemented in the near future.

According to a recent Association of European Cancer Leagues and Harvard study, there is growing momentum for indoor smoking bans in countries across the globe. Researchers identify Ireland’s pioneering 2004 comprehensive indoor smoking ban as a likely tipping point for fundamental change in social norms and public health worldwide.

“The 21^st century is witnessing a paradigm shift, once considered impossible, whereby entire countries are declaring themselves smoke-free in indoor public places. Such mounting progress across the globe is making smoking history worldwide,” says lead author Dr. Howard Koh, Professor and Associate Dean of Public Health Practice.

Countries that have passed smoke-free policies which apply to indoor workplaces and other indoor public places include:  Ireland, New Zealand, Bermuda, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Uruguay, Iran, the British Virgin Islands, Bhutan, Norway, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Iceland, Uganda, South Africa, France, Hong Kong, and Finland. Most of Canada and Australia is currently covered by smoke-free laws in indoor public places.

While the United States lacks a federal policy, 17 states are currently recognized as smoke-free, with the number increasing steadily. California enacted the first state ban on smoking in bars and restaurants in 1998.

While a number of these new policies currently allow exceptions, such as the possibility of designated, enclosed, ventilated smoking rooms, all have advanced the international public health goal of protecting people from involuntary exposure to second hand smoke.

“The world has begun to reclaim clean air as the social norm,” the authors write. “For too long, the tobacco industry has spent billions to normalize, market, and glamorize a behavior that is now recognized as a tragic drug addiction.”

For individuals looking for a way to break their nicotine addiction, acupuncture is a safe, natural and drug-free therapy. Acupuncture can eliminate the symptoms of withdrawal, such as irritability, restlessness and nicotine cravings.

A combination of therapies including pharmaceutical aids for smoking cessation and acupuncture often produces optimal results which can lead to permanent smoking cessation.

For more information about acupuncture for smoking cessation contact Dr. Richard Browne, Acupuncture Physician, at (305) 595-9500.  

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