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It is sweeping the nation with almost as much impact as the wave of fast food and McDonald’s had some years ago. Though we as a nation have adopted some nasty habits, it seems that the new trend is the push for wellness, and overall health conscious businesses, organizations, and individuals.
Health care professionals and business owners alike have been equally affected by the recent health trends in New York State; which has most recently been a front-runner for health improvements, and has taken an active roll in smoke-free workplace reform.
According to the AMA, the nation’s largest physicians’ group, many other states have taken their cue from New York. However, with California, Texas and nearly 15 others jumping on the smoke-free bandwagon, the question still remains. How will they all quit? These new laws have forced many to explore alternative treatment options.
Rather than choosing to accommodate each employee’s drug of choice, with an entire range of success rates and expenses, some employers and individuals are finding freedom from their addiction problems through Low-Level Laser Therapy.
Low-Level Laser Therapy or LLLT is relatively new to the U.S., making its formal introduction within the last six to seven years. So although the word is spreading, unfortunately, still very little is commonly known about the details. It has been approved for use in many areas such as wound healing, pain relief, immune system response, dermatology, bone healing, acupuncture point stimulation and of course, smoking cessation.
Low-Level Laser Therapy is a safe, non-medical procedure, as it is completely pain free and non-invasive. Photo or light-therapy has been used in Europe and Canada for over two decades, as a form of modern acupuncture for various conditions. The word laser has a connotation with cutting, removing and zapping. However, Low-level or bio-stimulation lasers are also known as cold lasers, which have entirely different capabilities than the surgical hot laser. Rather than slicing or destroying tissue, the cold laser actually stimulates tissue repair, and can be used for pain, stress and addiction relief.
Using the FDA approved laser, many clinics are springing up around the country, in order to assist people with their smoking and addiction habits. Canada has protocols for addictions of all kinds, starting with nicotine, alcohol, and more serious drugs. They are even treating for food addiction.
There are now over 200clinics nation wide participating in clinical research trials with the FDA. The smoking cessation protocol requires that certified laser technicians are trained to locate the specific areas of the body that correspond with nicotine addiction. Working in a fashion similar to acupuncture, the laser treats areas on the ears, face hands and wrists, resulting in a focused endorphin release.
A beam of intensified light is applied to the areas of the body that might normally be pierced with a needle. We’ve found that we can create a similar high from the body’s natural opiates when they are stimulated, but where the endorphin release would begin to wane from the removal of the needles, the technology of the laser allows this endorphin release to be constant for a period of up to 30-45 days.
Endorphins, which are the bodies natural high, trigger the pleasure centers in the brain, creating a release of the “feel-good” hormones, such a dopamine and serotonin, The two main outcomes of the procedure are reduced cravings and suppressed withdrawal symptoms.
The release reaches its peak at about 12-24 hours, and then begins to level off for the duration of the 30-45 days. Each clinic is different as far as its re-treatment protocol. Some like to get their clients in for a re-treatment 72 hours later, as an added incentive for remaining smoke-free, others wait a week, and still others only see them again for maintenance purposes, 1 month, 3 months and again at 6 months after their initial session.
According to the Matrix Institute of Laser Therapy, clinical studies have shown an up to 94% success rate in suppression of physical withdrawal and cravings with only one procedure.
Because we are still participating in clinical research trials it is vital that every patient know that our high success rates are not claiming success on the basis of smoker-non-smoker, but rather, has each person experienced a reduction and suppression of cravings and withdrawal? This in combination with a behavior modification and counseling program most often results in finally kicking the habit.
The main difference is that the individual will now be in control of their cravings rather than it being the other way around. And where the physical strength ends, that’s when the mental kicks in.
What sets Laser therapy apart? Laser Therapy clinics around the world pride themselves on the fact that we are using the body’s natural healing fibers to help overcome their addiction. And they are using a completely drug-free, stimulant free method.
Many people have tried everything, from the patches to the gums, lozenges, and even other medications that are meant to be prescribed for more serious conditions that do not pertain to them, resulting in an endless array of side effects and costs.
Nicotine replacement therapy or any other kind of pharmacotherapy has never reached a success rate beyond 30-40%. And many times the side effects are worse, in the patients’ opinion, than smoking itself. Reasons why a percentage of people are still unsuccessful is unclear, but the growing number of people who have finally found relief encourages the continuation of this research.
Énergie Laser Therapy in Vestal New York is a legitimate laser therapy clinic right here in your own state that offers smoking cessation, weight loss as well as muscle and joint pain treatments. We offer both the laser therapy session in combination with a well-developed behavior modification program to help combat both aspects of any addiction, the physical as well as the behavioral. Each Patient gets an after-care packet with all the necessary tools to help them through their first months as a non-smoker, including a vitamin detoxification system to help cleanse the body from the nearly 5,000 toxins accumulated from each and every cigarette. We remain your accountability, and support system throughout your process, and are always eager to help more people become free once and for all. |
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