Address your smoking addiction in Adelaide with Laser treatment

AcuQuit is a LASER treatment for quit smoking.

AVAILABILITY UPDATE

We are no longer offering our Laser to Quit Smoking treatment in Adelaide. Our available clinics are located in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

Northern Adelaide has a high percentage of smokers at 18% whilst Central Adelaide & Hills is at 14% and Southern Adelaide is at 13%.

In 2016, 14.9% of South Australians aged 15 years and over smoked (daily, weekly or less often than weekly). This was a non-significant decrease from 15.7% in both 2014 and 2015, and was significantly lower than 2013 (19.4%).

In 2016, smoking prevalence was higher among males (16.7%) than females (13.3%) and was highest among 45-59 year olds (19.8%), followed by 30-44 year olds (17.9%), 15-29 year olds (12.3%), and those aged 60 years and over (9.6%).

How to quit cigarette smoking

The AcuQuit® treatment is Laser Acupuncture therapy (without needles). It is our intention to reduce your cravings for cigarettes and stop the addiction.

AcuQuit® is performed by AcuQuit® therapists who are health practitioners registered with the Australian Government. They are qualified and experienced to perform this treatment.

For information on how AcuQuit® works click here.

The treatment objective is to produce an overall effect of reducing cravings to enable people to quit smoking. The overall treatment time is approximately 45-60 minutes.

Our treatment is drug free and we do not use any quit smoking hypnosis or quit smoking hypnotherapy techniques.

Does Laser to Stop Smoking really work?

There are many research articles available examining Acupuncture’s role in addiction and the potential for treatment to reduce and eliminate dependency.

Laser Acupuncture had an 84% success rate in recent research (Lim 2018) with many participants reporting they no longer had the urge to smoke. [1]

Laser acupoint stimulation does indeed modify the physical symptoms of withdrawal and makes it possible for motivated persons to succeed in overcoming habitual smoking of tobacco, concluded a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized study. [2]

The most recent Cochrane Systematic Review (White 2014) states that the 2008 Kerr study on laser stimulation is strongly positive at both short and long-term outcomes. [3]

Earlier research had shown that Laser Acupuncture had a 71% success rate in heavy smoking patients. [4]

This external research suggests that Laser Acupuncture treatments and protocols may provide beneficial outcomes however other papers did not have the same findings so the evidence is regarded as mixed. The AcuQuit treatment is unique and so treatment methods and results will vary from available research. We encourage patients to make an informed decision knowing that success cannot be guaranteed with our treatment.

References

[1] Painless Laser Acupuncture for Smoking Cessation. Rodney Choon Huat Lim. Med Acupunct. 2018 Jun 1; 30(3): 159–162. Link

[2] Low level laser for the stimulation of acupoints for smoking cessation: a double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial and semi structured interviews. Catherine M. Kerr, Paul B. Lowe & Neil I. Spielholz. Link

[3] White AR, Rampes H, Liu JP, Stead LF, Campbell J. Acupuncture and related interventions for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014(1):Cd000009. Link

[4] Laser-acupuncture reduces cigarette smoking: a preliminary report. Zalesskiy VN, Belousova IA, Frolov GV. Acupunct Electrother Res. 1983;8(3-4):297-302. Link

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