According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 6 million people die worldwide each year due to cigarette use. In Brazil alone, the number is 552 people who die every day from diseases linked to smoking. Unfortunately, smoking is a very difficult addiction to give up and ends up causing serious harm not only to health, but to professional life and quality of life in general, as studies show that smokers are lazier, less physically active and suffer from lack of energy. of motivation, not to mention the high probability of suffering from anxiety and depression.
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Scientists from the State University of Londrina analyzed 60 smokers and 50 non-smokers for 12 hours a day, over a period of six days, who used a pedometer for the stipulated period. Smokers showed loss of lung function and consequently more difficulty in carrying out physical activities, not to mention that they declared themselves more tired and admitted they had no motivation to change their lifestyle and according to previous research, smokers sleep fewer hours, with less restful sleep than than non-smokers.
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Meanwhile, scientists from Charité Berlin Medical School, in Germany, found that 17% of smokers sleep less than six hours a night, while 28% suffer from sleep disturbances.
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With all this, many smokers try to find a treatment solution that will help them stop smoking permanently, since, according to research, two out of three smokers want to quit smoking, and around half of adult smokers try to quit every year. And yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the US most attempts to quit smoking are unsuccessful.
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Not to mention the diseases that can lead to death, smoking has also been proven to harm a woman’s beauty:
– Nicotine disrupts blood flow, impairing the oxygenation of skin cells and dehydrating the skin, causing aging.
– Yellow teeth
– Bad breath
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Well, due to all these problems, at a certain point in their lives most people end up trying to kick the habit, with a series of complementary therapies emerging that promise to help when it comes to quitting smoking, but be very calm at this time, you must be very careful. be careful when evaluating which of them bear scientific credibility.
For these and other reasons, the American government body focused on alternative practices has gathered what evidence there is so far about some therapies, they are:
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Therapies to stop smoking
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1 – Meditation
Those who opt for meditation may be making a good choice to stop smoking, because although science has yet to better evaluate its impact, according to a recent article, mindfulness meditation does a good job in the arduous anti-smoking endeavor, and evaluations are being carried out with neuroimaging exams to find out why.
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2 – Acupuncture
The choice of needles may be a little hasty, as a review is being carried out on 38 studies on this technique and similar methods, such as acupressure, and for now, it has been concluded that there is still a lack of consistent evidence that these methods are decisive for overcome addiction. In most cases, psychotherapy and nicotine replacement would work best as therapy for you to quit smoking.
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3 – Yoga
On the other hand, the choice of Yoga as a therapy could be quite right, as a study was financed in the USA dedicated to complementary therapies to test their effectiveness, in women, with a yoga program to increase the chances of escaping addiction and the The result was very positive, showing less anxiety and relapses.
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4 – Tai Chi Chuan
Anyone who wants to invest in martial arts, a tip is to turn to Tai chi chuan, which in research from the University of Florida, in the United States, this slow-motion martial art, showed good potential as support for those who want to get rid of cigarettes. However, they still hope to do more research to be able to prove its effectiveness.
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5 – Hypnosis
Those who want to resort to a more radical therapy such as hypnosis may not be making the right choice, at least according to a critical analysis of 11 experiments, which found that working on the state of consciousness did not have a significant effect over a period of six months of cessation, however, another study showed a certain benefit, since hypnosis is accompanied by nicotine patches.
