Acupuncture and Addiction

 

Acupuncture is very effective in controlling addiction:

• Nicotine addiction (Smoking)

• Alcohol addiction

• Sedative (pain killers) and anxiolytic dependence

• Hard drugs addiction

• Food addiction and overeating

 

Acupuncture helps in:

• Detoxifying the body from the substance abuse

• Alleviating withdrawal symptoms including stress, anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, etc…

• Preventing symptoms of craving.

• Helping with the emotional attributes involved in addictions.

 

For some addictive substances such as nicotine (smokers), the craving is usually sharply reduced after 1 or 2 treatments. After 4 or 5 treatments, spread over a 2 week period, 7 out of 10 patients will have managed to quit. Others will have drastically cut down on the number of cigarettes smoked daily.