What happens during a typical treatment?

An acupuncture treatment usually consists of the insertion of stainless steel needles at specific points on the body.  The needles are extremely thin (so thin that one will fit inside the barrel of a hypodermic needle) and the patient feels only a slight sensation of insertion or even nothing at all.  When the acu-point is reached, a characteristic sensation of heaviness or tingling is commonly felt. The number of needles used varies according to the problem being treated.  The treatment itself may last just several minutes to more than half an hour depending on the patient and the condition being treated.

Acupuncture is extremely safe and remarkably free of negative side effects.  Over 30,000 treatments were done at the UCLA Acupuncture Research Center without one case of infection.  In our offices we use only disposable needles.  They are packaged and sterilized for your one time use and then disposed of.  A perfect marriage of ancient wisdom with modern technology.

STOP SMOKING

You have heard all the ways to stop smoking:  Aversion techniques, group support sessions, scare tactics, or worse yet cold turkey!  They often fail, because of withdrawal misery including nervousness, tension, and irritability.  The symptoms seem worse than the smoking habit itself.

Now even the heaviest smoker can become a non smoker in just two or three days without the withdrawal agony… with  acupuncture.

How it works

Habitual smoking is due to a nicotine addiction that results in a chemical imbalance in the brain.  As long as that imbalance exists, so does the need to smoke.

Acupuncture is one of the only known approaches that can directly treat the addiction centers in the brain.  It simply changes the chemical balance back to normal.  The chemical imbalance can be corrected in as few as two acupuncture treatments within 18 hours of each other. This is accomplished under the care of a professionally trained, Board Certified practitioner, like those at our two locations.

Phone Consultations
Are FREE!

Most questions about this treatment can readily be answered over the phone.  A simple call can reassure you about the benefits of this ancient form of health care.  There need not be any mystery.  Acupuncture works by balancing the body's physiological process.  This is a perfect marriage of ancient wisdom and modern technology.  We use only disposable needles.

According to the American Lung Association there are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, including 43 chemicals that are known to cause cancer.    Cancer causing agents include:Nitrosamines, Crysenes, Cadmium, Benzo(a)pyrene, Polonium 210, Nickel, P.A.H.'s, Dibenz Acidine, B-Napthylamine, Urethane, N. Nitrosonornicotine, Toluidine.  Plus the following chemicals:  Acetone (nail polish remover), Ammonia (floor/toilet cleaner), Arsenic (poison), Butane (cigarette lighter fluid), Carbon monoxide (car exhaust fumes), DDT/Dieldrin (insecticides), Ethanol (alcohol), Formaldehyde (preserver-body tissue & fabric).  Hexamine (barbecue lighter), Hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison), Methane (swamp gas), Methanol (rocket fuel), Napthalene (mothballs), Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug), Nitrobenzene (gasoline additive), Nitrous Oxide Phenols (disinfectant), Stearic acid (candle wax), Toluene (industrial solvent), Vinyl chloride (makes PVC).

* During 1990, 15,639 Michigan residents died of smoking attributable illness.  This is about one in five of all Mich deaths.

Immediate health benefits of stopping smoking according to the American Cancer Society: 1) Within the first 20 minutes, blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal, and body temperature increases to normal.  2) Within 8 hours, carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in blood become normal.  3)  Within 24 hours, risk of having a heart attack decreases.  4) The longer one goes without smoking, the risk of smoking related death continues to decline…by 10 years after you've stopped smoking, that risk goes back close to zero.