Stop smoking and lose weight at the same time is possible with acupuncture

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Numerous studies confirm the effectiveness of this ancient technique
in the fight against obesity and smoking

Christmas, by tradition, reflecting an increase in the number of dinners, meal, and generally of a higher intake of food and alcoholic beverages. Result: an increase in weight. The scale marks a kilo more to be lost but, yes, always so healthy. However, nobody likes to go hungry and it is difficult to reduce the amount of food from one day to another. If we add to this that many people use the quit date, which means weight gain, so in some cases quite significant, the question arises of how can you lose weight and quit smoking without causing the syndrome abstinence and without going hungry? Acupuncture is the answer.

For years, we know the harmful effects of snuff. Psychopharmacological properties of nicotine are similar to other psychostimulant drugs of abuse such as amphetamines and cocaine. Beltran says Dr. Carrillo, a doctor specializing in Geriatrics and Acupuncture bearing exercise such as during the past 15 years, these drugs cause excitement and stimulation of motor activity when administered to experimental animals and humans. "

Most of the wishes of smokers have quit smoking, they are all aware of the risk to their health, but many are afraid andalusia symptoms no longer be able to achieve, so continually postponing the time go by without definitive of snuff. Still, 60% of smokers tried to quit once but only between 3% and 5% of those who smoke and make attempts to quit, does it successfully. This low rate can be explained in part, according to Dr. Carrillo, "the fact that most attempts abandoned performed without assistance, based on strength of will."

Thus, any time is ideal for stop smoking, even at the risk of increasing kilos more, because the benefits are greater. However, it need not happen this weight gain is more, you can lose weight if it removes the anxiety that causes the symptoms and if you start a diet with a tool to prevent starvation, besides conducting some form of exercise.
In this sense, it is noteworthy that obesity is a problem concerning the energy balance, ie, it is that these people consume more energy than they consume, leading to an increase in body fat and therefore weight. Moreover, the fact that there are increasing numbers of obese adults in the child like.

Hence the importance of losing more pounds when they are not yet alarming, that goes without saying the need to lose it when they are, because, apart from the aesthetic and social problem that can cause depression and even reaches result in suicidal tendencies, is a frequent cause of vascular disease, including coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension. It may also lead to the emergence of type 2 diabetes, the incidence of which, according to Dr. Carrillo Beltran, "has increased significantly over the past 30 years increased the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart failure, stroke and death." Also, excess weight is associated with the development of many cancers and the increased and more rapid degeneration of the joints.

How to quit smoking and lose weight without anxiety and without starving?
Acupuncture is being used with increasing frequency to treat problems related to drug dependency, which is the snuff. In the early 70s, and began to study the effects that this technique was beneficial in relieving symptoms associated with opioid dependence. It soon began to publish results of treatments for detoxification of snuff from different areas. In this regard, stresses the review in early 80s, over 10,000 patients and included 84 publications. In it, acupuncture was positive in 60% of cases. These figures are kept in different descriptive studies conducted since then.

In this regard, said Dr. Carrillo Beltran, "the results of acupuncture are as effective as other methods, but with fewer side effects." He adds that according to his clinical experience, "the effects of this technique are more effective, leading more often, the smoker is indifferent with respect to snuff and you reach the desired result in less time." That is, a smoker can quit with only three sessions of acupuncture.

Abandonment of this unit, helps to maintain a balanced diet, nutritious and adequate calories for the proper functioning of the body. Therefore, it is a good time to slim down, thus avoiding the weight gain that occurs when you quit. To do this, you need to make a lower energy intake to allow the loss of fat, which must also be reconciled with the social life of the individual, educate them to alter their patterns of feeding and hunger that will not fit.

In this aspect, which shows its effectiveness Acupuncture. A prerequisite to follow a hypocaloric diet long enough to reach the desired weight is that the person is still mastering his desire to eat. As Dr. Carrillo says, "if on a diet to lose weight, the patient goes hungry, has poor concentration, moodiness, ... you will most likely abandon the treatment before reaching the target. The diet is lose weight, but have no effect on appetite suppressant. "

The mechanisms by which acupuncture achieved suppress appetite are based on changes in neuronal activity of the hypothalamus, which increases the feeling of satiety, and increased levels of serotonin, which is involved in the control of eating behavior and body weight in the central nervous system. This stimulating neurotransmitters (monoamine), reduces food intake, increases energy expenditure and increases intestinal motility.

Ultimately, according to Dr. Carrillo: "Acupuncture is a painless, non-traumatic, with no side effects, and effective and efficient to keep the addicted to nicotine indifferent with respect to snuff, especially in smokers motivated to quit this harmful dependency. And it also gets the best results in thinning regimes to suppress the appetite. "

About Dr. Carrillo Beltran

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Complutense University of Madrid, Dr. Carrillo has specialized in geriatrics, although family tradition, the exercise ended in favor of acupuncture, which is master for the same University. After working as a geriatrician at the Hospital Central de la Cruz Roja, Madrid, opened private practice in Acupuncture and Geriatrics in 1993.