In the previous article Natural Ways To Quit Smoking methods to naturally quit smoking were discussed such as cold turkey, herbal remedies and hypnosis. They are not the only ways to naturally quit smoking. Quitting Smoking successfully requires putting an end to your bodies dependence on all the chemicals that have artificially been added to the tobacco as well as the nicotine. All you are doing by using nicotine patches or gum is changing the delivery method of how you receive your nicotine fix. They get you off smoking, but make you dependent on the patch or gum instead. So wouldn’t it make more sense to use a method that doesn’t deliver any of these chemicals at all? If you see the sense in that perhaps you would like to try one of these methods to naturally quit smoking.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that uses needles inserted into meridian points in the body. TCM sees the withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting smoking as the result of impaired liver function caused by nicotine addiction. Your liver will have become stimulated artificially by the chemicals in the tobacco and ceasing to smoke will temporarily mean that you experience a lack of liver energy. It is this drop in liver energy that causes your withdrawal symptoms.
Acupuncture works by stimulating the liver function to compensate for the lack of stimulation caused by withdrawal of the tobacco. This helps to ease the unpleasant symptoms of nicotine withdrawal and after a while the liver will resume normal function.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
EFT is similar to acupuncture but has the advantage of being able to be applied by the smoker to themselves. Instead of inserting needles in to meridian points you tap on them with your finger tips. Whilst doing this tapping you focus your attention on the anxiety associated with smoking withdrawal. During the tapping process you do a sequence of mental exercises that state your intent about how you wish to be free of the withdrawal symptoms. This has a great de-stressing effect on the nervous system.
EFT can be learnt in as little a five minutes and can be performed anyplace and at anytime. It is now used by many practitioners around the world to help people with issues such as anxiety, fears and phobias. EFT has been proven to be successful at relieving anxiety and it is due to this that EFT has become so effective at helping people quit smoking by helping them get through the withdrawal symptoms.
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