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The truth is, not all forms of stop smoking treatments are equal.
After hearing of so many failed attempts from people trying
other forms of stop smoking treatments, before they came to muzzSTOP. . . we naturally decided to look into the more
disputed ones for ourselves.
Combining what people have told us, with what we learnt; has
left us to conclude that these other forms of treatments have
either: the potential side effects that could put your health at
serious risk; or they simply just don't work . . . and in some
cases we found they were both.
After many considerations, we decided to include this page for
those of you who are interested in reading a little of what we
found; and have now come to understand.
Let us first look at the two most commonly used drugs to try and
stop people from smoking, Champix and
Zyban; then we'll look at NRT
(nicotine replacement therapies, for example: patches and alike) and then
we would like to explain conventional or traditional acupuncture's
and laser acupuncture's total
inability to provide people with any real or extra means to stop smoking;
so that you can get some understanding as to the difference
between these so called stop smoking treatments and muzzSTOP . . .
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Champix (or varenicline, as it was once called)
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This drug "in our
opinion" is the MOST dangerous of all
the non-smoking
treatments available.
There are reports of Champix accounting for more
cases of serious side effects than any other stop
smoking drug.
Although, it is very hard to find out everything about
this drug. . . at very best, it temporarily blocks the effect of nicotine on the brain,
reducing the pleasurable feelings
associated with smoking.
However, the huge downside of taking a drug strong
enough to do things like this to your
brain is seen in its multiple reports of: suicidal acts and
suicidal-ideation, psychosis and hostility or aggression,
including homicidal-ideation . . . to list only the most prominent
psychiatric side effects.
Also, the reports suggested that varenicline may be related to the loss of glycemic
control and new onset of diabetes, heart rhythm
disturbances, skin reactions, vision disturbances,
seizures, abnormal muscle spasms and other movement
disorders.
Even if this drug is only half as bad as it is reported as being, we would recommend
you to keep smoking, rather than taking Champix . . . and we
hate what smoking does to people. |
Zyban (or Bupropion as it was initially known)
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We often have patients who have tried Zyban before they
came to muzzSTOP, and almost every one of them have reported
been very sick as a result from taking this drug.
Symptoms included: seizures, bad headaches, agitation and
insomnia. Less frequently, allergic-type
responses including itching, red skin and swelling of
the airways, mouth and lips. Some users of Zyban
have required hospitalisation, and now there are even medical
reports of deaths directly linked to taking Zyban.
The most controversial side effect of Bupropion (or
Zyban as it is now called) is the seizures, which was
the reason for its initial withdrawal from the market,
before it re-appeared as a stop smoking drug called
Zyban.
Although Zyban was originally
developed as an antidepressant, we feel the biggest problem with this drug is the way
that it is metabolized in the liver. Many of its results appear
to be far more dangerous than nicotine.
In our opinion, taking this drug to stop smoking is like
jumping out of the pan into the fire. And, to top it
all off; it has a very low success rate of actually
stopping people from smoking.
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Nicotine Patches - Nicotine replacement therapy
(NRT)
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There have been multiple forms of NRT
marketed to smokers over the past 20 years, including:
nicotine patch,
inhaler, nasal spray,
gum, sublingual tablets, and
lozenges, etc. These are all various forms of nicotine delivery
methods, intended to replace the nicotine your body is
addicted to from
tobacco usage.
Even though NRT delivers nicotine at a much slower rate
than cigarettes do, we have found that nicotine absorbed
via the skin or saliva can build an overall deeper dependency on nicotine.
Most of the nicotine produced to make these medicines is
provided by the same tobacco companies that make the cigarettes .
. . It seems they just want to get nicotine into your
body one way or another. Either way, it’s a financial win–win situation for them;
as it keeps their tobacco-based
nicotine sales on the up and up.
And, from a health point of view, the real question still remains,
why would you add more
of the same poison to your system that is killing you in
the first place? Especially, when nicotine is one
of the most lethal chemicals available, reported to be
3 times more lethal than arsenic - if just one drop of pure
nicotine is placed on the tongue, it is enough to kill a
healthy
adult.
We say: NRT is a bit like offering drowning people
glasses of water. |
Traditional Acupuncture
(NB: muzzSTOP is NOT Traditional Acupuncture)
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Reputable
clinical trials have shown that traditional or
conventional acupuncture's effect on stopping
smoking is equal to that of sham/placebo;
findings that we definitely agree with.
When we initially looked at treating smokers
with conventional / traditional acupuncture, we
got no real results that we could attribute to
these acupuncture treatments.
In our experience, general acupuncture is great
for general health problems, but when it comes
to deep-seated addictions, general acupuncture
is not equipped to deal with these types of
conditions. |
Please Note:
There are also, large numbers of
reputable clinical trials
showing normal acupuncture to be
of GREAT benefit in treating
many conditions that no other
modalities can. It is just in
the stop smoking field that
it falls very short. |
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To our knowledge, all the acupuncture-based stop
smoking providers only use conventional or traditional
acupuncture treatments to try and stop you from
smoking. Most common are the treatments used to treat
stress. These simply stimulate the same endorphins that
nicotine does, which make you feel less stressed while
you try to do without your normal supply of nicotine.
However, these treatments last only for a very short
time, requiring many treatments, on a regular basis, in
order to try and keep your feelings in a feel-good state
so that you can hopefully endure the intense cravings
over the long withdrawal period required.
For most, the process takes too long, with no
significant results; and patients simply give up, and
return to smoking normally.
Although we only use 'Chi Needling' for our addiction treatments, it does not mean that we don't use Acupuncture or Yin Yang Needling in our clinic. We proudly use traditional Acupuncture and Yin Yang Needling every day in our holistic health and wellbeing clinic (just not for our muzzSTOP addiction treatments). |
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Quite frankly, laser treatments are
absolutely useless for treating deep seated addictions like
nicotine. Laser is designed primarily to be used for
localised surface
cosmetic treatments.
First of all, lasering body acupuncture points only
really works on children up to 7 years old, while their
acupuncture points are still very close to the skin,
where the laser can reach them. For adults laser
is only useful for skin (or near skin deep) conditions,
like treating: superficial cosmetic conditions; scar-tissue;
and localised infections, etc. In some cases it
can be used on
the ear acupuncture points - where the points are just
under the surface of the skin. . . But honestly,
there are no ear points that can have any significant
effect on deep rooted addictions like nicotine, which
causes you to continually smoke cigarettes.
All Laser based stop smoking services try to do for you as a smoker
is increase your endorphin production to stimulate
(serotonin & Dopamine) which are the pleasure chemicals
in the brain.
It is even questionable if anyone can actually do that
using Laser. Even if their claim to use more
points than general acupuncture treatments were to have
any merit, the problem
still remains that they can only treat one point at a time, and
regulation laser's low-level light potency drops off
very quickly once it enters human tissue.
In our practical experience, there is nothing in laser
treatments
to stop people from smoking, no matter how many points
are treated. In fact, you could get a whole team of people
armed with lasers to treat every acupuncture point in
your body at once, and it would do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop
you from smoking.
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So, WHY muzzSTOP?
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Because:
We don't use superficial cosmetic
apparatus [Laser]; or general acupuncture treatments to
treat major addictions like cigarette smoking.
We will not require you to absorb
more nicotine into your body [NRT] to keep our revenue streams from tobacco-based
industries alive.
And, we certainly will NOT give you
any mind-altering drugs - especially those with warnings of
dangerous side effects relating to suicidal or homicidal
acts - let alone those known to hospitalise people.
muzzSTOP is the only stop smoking
treatment that we know of that will remove the cravings
and toxins that cause you to be addicted to cigarettes.
. . in 24 hours . . . And we have a 98% success
record.
Even though we do use Chi Needling in our
treatment - it must be noted that muzzSTOP is NOT the
normal conventional or traditional acupuncture that is
widely used.
The science behind muzzSTOP comes from treating the old
opium addictions in the East. We coupled that with
modern science’s knowledge on how the body stores and
deals with the nicotine and toxins that cause cravings
and addictions through smoking tobacco.
Due to the fact that there is a lot of information available today regarding nicotine's
behaviour in the human body; and given that opium
addictions are far deeper and far harder to rid from the
human body than nicotine, it is a very easy matter for
us at muzzSTOP to stop people from smoking:
1. in such a short time [24 hours];
2. with such a high success rate [98%].
If the other systems of stop smoking worked better than
muzzSTOP - we would market, sell, and treat people using
them. . .
BUT they just don't. |
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NB: As much as the above
comparisons between muzzSTOP and the other treatments
could be considered as "bragging about ourselves",
please understand that the underlying and founding
principle of our very existence is to ensure that people who
really do want to stop smoking are provided with real and
effective help. . . and it is with this in mind
that we wave our muzzSTOP flag above our opposition as
hard as we can.
We just hate to see people's genuine hopes dashed, especially if it was due to us not making them aware of (a) our existence and (b) our unique treatment - a stop smoking treatment that really does work! |
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| We want you to
know: If
any other form of stop smoking treatment was as good for
your health as muzzSTOP is; or as highly proficient as muzzSTOP is, then we would use them . . .
Because all we
are interested in is providing 'you' with the means to give up smoking
right NOW and FOREVER!
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