1. Smoking causes lung cancer, cough, difficulty in breathing, bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema etc by affecting
respiratory system negatively.
2. Speaking of effects on cardiovascular system, smoking is the factor that leads to various kinds of diseases such
as high blood pressure, hypercholesterinemia, arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction, ASHD
(arteriosclerotic heart disease), sudden death, peripheral vascular diseases and stroke. In addition, smoking causes
deterioration of heart function, symptom and reduces medicines' effectiveness that are used for treatment of
the cardiovascular system.
3. Smoking causes laryngopharyngeal cancer, oral cancer, lung cancer, esophagus cancer, bladder cancer, pancreatic
cancer, stomach cancer, uterine cervical cancer, kidney cancer and so on.
< The damaging effects of secondhand smoke >
1. If a non-smoker is in the same place with a smoker, the non=smoker is negatively affected about 25 percent.
2. The effects of passive smoke on infants could be one of following symptoms ; bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, an
inflammation of the middle ear, hypotrophy, hypofunction. Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke
(95 percent) themselves when they get older.
3. Smoking during pregnancy increases the possibility of placenta previa, abruptio placentae, complications of early
rupture of membranes and premature birth. Additionally, it affects infants negatively such as intrauterine growth
retardation, premature baby, increasing perinatal mortality rate and deformed child. When a non-pregnancy
women smoke, the possibility of infertility, premature ovarian failure, osteoporosis, loop electrosurgical
excision procedure could be higher.
< Precautions for acupuncture to quit smoking >
▧ Try not to smoke for 3~5 hours after applying acupuncture to quit smoking.
▧ When a patient wants to smoke, press auricular acupuncture 3~5 times frequently.
▧ Be cautious not to detach acupuncture from ear when washing up or taking shower.
▧ If a patient feels strong pain or serious itchiness, remove that acupuncture and disinfect the area.
▧ Patients don't need to worry about the symptoms of nervosity, anxiety, lassitude during the acupuncture
therapy to quit smoking because it si caused by reducing smoking.
▧ Patients should be applied acupuncture twice or three times a week.
▧ Every time patients feel the urge to smoke, water, vitamin, juice, gum can be great substitution
for cigarettes.