[Pinchas]

I heard about this on the News. They said it was very popular across the pond. It's just begining to be introduced in the US. If it's truly as successful as they claim, one wonders what Halachic ramification this will have as this treatment becomes more widely available.


http://www.elitestv....a27131c751.html

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One 30-minute laser treatment breaks nicotine addiction with extraordinary success rates

Entrepreneur Craig Nabat, a Detroit native known for inventing the infomercial product The FINDIT®
Key finder has brought low-level laser therapy for treatment of nicotine addiction to the United States.

Nabat’s company, Freedom Laser Therapy is turning smokers into nonsmokers within 30-minutes.

Nabat says, “From our follow up treatment phone calls we are learning 9 out of 10 Freedom clients
are telling us they quit!” “Clients are raving about how easy it is to quit smoking and are referring other smokers to our clinic.”

Nabat learned about low-level laser therapy after being treated in Canada for nicotine addiction. Amazed at the ease of kicking his cigarette smoking habit, Nabat has turned into a “LASER-PRENEUR” and dedicated himself to establishing Freedom Laser Therapy Clinics around the United States. The entire Freedom Laser Therapy staff is dedicated to freeing the world from nicotine addiction. In May 2003, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) authorized investigational clinical trials using low-level laser therapy in compliance with FDA regulations. Clinical trials are being set up to measure the safety and effectiveness of low-level laser therapy to treat nicotine addiction. The IRB is an organization chartered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee clinical trials, which collect data on new medical treatments. Institutional Review Boards exist to ensure the rights of human study subjects protecting them by being in accordance with FDA guidelines; all treatments being offered must be safe, as well as ethical. The FDA has already ruled low-level laser therapy as a “non-significant risk” and the US investigational trials are being funded through patient participation.

Freedom Laser Therapy is participating in this research study to test the efficiency of low-level laser therapy for smoking cessation treatment.

Low-level laser therapy works on a specific energy points along the body’s central nervous system.

Low-level laser therapy is thought of as a highly effective modern form of acupressure. A soft laser light is used to stimulate specific energy points in the ear, face, and hands relating to the addiction. When the laser makes contact with the body’s various energy points, a person experiences a feeling of relaxation and a state of well being, as well as a boost to their metabolism, combating the common occurrence of weight gain often associated with quitting smoking.

For the past 30 years, this specific application in treating addiction has been available in Europe and Canada. After decades of use in these other countries, the treatment has been proven successful in treating smokers and other substance abusers, as well as those suffering from eating disorders. International practitioners of low-level laser therapy have also documented amazing recovery results as high as 85% with alcohol, cocaine, and heroin addictions. Treatment with a laser helps to promote the release of endorphins in the body. Endorphins are the body’s natural chemicals, which help keep a person calm and relaxed, making it significantly easier to cope with withdrawal symptoms, and cravings that arise from giving up nicotine.

Low-level laser therapy mimics a similar type of endorphin release in the body, which a person receives from smoking cigarettes. After laser therapy treatment is administered, the client will lose almost all physical urges to smoke. This is the marriage of two great technologies, the ancient form of Chinese acupressure
and the modern form of the laser. The 30-minute treatment includes education on nicotine addiction, advice on coping with cravings and withdrawal, nutritional recommendations, a vitamin detoxification regimen, and detailed instructions on how to maintain a nicotine free lifestyle.

Freedom Laser Therapy, Inc. is the first full scale addiction based clinic in the United States to legally treat nicotine addiction with low-level laser therapy under IRB investigational trials. Presently, Freedom Laser Therapy has clinics operating in Santa Monica, California and Royal Oak, Michigan.

In upcoming months, additional clinics are scheduled for Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois, and Texas

For more information visit: www.freedomlasertherapy.com

Taylor Brooke

[cynic]

With all the ways out there to quit smoking, anybody that continues to smoke is an idiot.

[Aristotle]

cynic, on Nov 30 2004, 10:07 PM, said:

With all the ways out there to quit smoking, anybody that continues to smoke is an idiot.

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Unless there not smoking because they started under peer pressure when they were 13 years old. Some people actually smoke for the benefit they derive from it.
(suprise!! )

[investor relations]

Aristotle, on Nov 30 2004, 10:42 PM, said:

cynic, on Nov 30 2004, 10:07 PM, said:

With all the ways out there to quit smoking, anybody that continues to smoke is an idiot.

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Unless there not smoking because they started under peer pressure when they were 13 years old. Some people actually smoke for the benefit they derive from it.
(suprise!! )

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what is the benefit in smoking?

[Pinchas]

Aristotle, on Nov 30 2004, 10:42 PM, said:

cynic, on Nov 30 2004, 10:07 PM, said:

With all the ways out there to quit smoking, anybody that continues to smoke is an idiot.

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Unless there not smoking because they started under peer pressure when they were 13 years old. Some people actually smoke for the benefit they derive from it.
(suprise!! )

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Ahh yes. Of course. The benefit.

[Aristotle]

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.
- Luis Bunuel

[Aristotle]

"Good Thing i went back To Smoking"

Warning: nicotine seriously improves health

Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday July 18, 2004

The Observer

Nicotine could soon be rehabilitated as a treatment for schizophrenia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, as well as hyperactivity disorders.
Research shows that the chemical that has addicted millions to smoking has a powerful impact on brain activity in patients who suffer from psychiatric and degenerative disorders.

Some experiments have shown that nicotine can slow down the onset of Parkinson's symptoms; others have had revealed its power in curtailing the hallucinations of schizophrenics.

'A whole range of psychiatric conditions seem to be helped by nicotine,' said Dr Dan McGehee, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago. 'However, such benefits do not justify smoking. The lethal effects of cigarettes far outweigh any help they provide. On the other hand, our research does suggest that derivatives of nicotine, administered medically, could help to alleviate a range of psychiatric problems.'

Nicotine is known to switch on receptors on the surface of cells in certain parts of the brain, causing these neurones to release the neuro-transmitter dopamine, a chemical that is associated with feelings of pleasure. This effect leads to a person's addiction.

More than 50 per cent of people suffering from clinical depression smoke, while the figure rises to 95 per cent for schizophrenics. But smoking among the general public has dropped to about 25 per cent. 'The assumption is that people with psychiatric conditions are self-medicating,' said McGehee. 'They are smoking because the nicotine in particularly helpful in alleviating their condition.'

This point is backed by Dr Tony George, of Yale University. 'Smoking is a marker for psychopathology,' he states in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

Similarly, it has been found that nicotine can sometimes slow the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's, a disease caused by the slow destruction of certain types of brain cells.

'Either nicotine stimulates other types of brain cells to compensate for the loss of the cells involved in Parkinson's, or it is somehow providing protection to remaining healthy Parkinson's cells,' said McGehee. 'Either way, the effect is noticeable.'

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

[Aristotle]

And if you have a lot of time on your hands and want to know the truth about smoking here you are.

[Aristotle]

I nice article

My basic point is about "casual smokers" people who smoke 2/3 ciggs a day and are in relatively good heath (diet, exercise, etc.). The media blows things totaly out of proportion and makes blanket statements that are mostly taken (by the readers) out of context.
Yes a guy who is 50 pounds overweight and eats three meals at Mc Donalds has a bad family history etc. and smokes a pack a day will probably die ok.

[politico]

Aristotle, on Dec 1 2004, 01:56 AM, said:

I nice article

My basic point is about "casual smokers" people who smoke 2/3 ciggs a day and are in relatively good heath (diet, exercise, etc.). The media blows things totaly out of proportion and makes blanket statements that are mostly taken (by the readers) out of context.

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the media are in pretty good company on this one. JAMA is full of research on the harmful effects of casual smoking, and none of the major fitness associations differentiate between chain and casual smoking for the purpose of evaluating risk schedules.

[grend123]

If you believe a couple of scientists against the entire medical establishment, you're probably nogaiah b'davar.

Ah, yes.

[Aristotle]

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 08:37 AM, said:

If you believe a couple of scientists against the entire medical establishment, you're probably nogaiah b'davar.

Ah, yes.

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The truth is not always popular.

[grend123]

Aristotle, on Dec 1 2004, 05:12 PM, said:

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 08:37 AM, said:

If you believe a couple of scientists against the entire medical establishment, you're probably nogaiah b'davar.

Ah, yes.

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The truth is not always popular.

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And what you want to hear is not always the truth.

[Aristotle]

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 05:16 PM, said:

Aristotle, on Dec 1 2004, 05:12 PM, said:

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 08:37 AM, said:

If you believe a couple of scientists against the entire medical establishment, you're probably nogaiah b'davar.

Ah, yes.

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The truth is not always popular.

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And what you want to hear is not always the truth.

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I guess that would be just as (if not more) applicable yo you as it is to me.

[grend123]

Aristotle, on Dec 1 2004, 05:19 PM, said:

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 05:16 PM, said:

Aristotle, on Dec 1 2004, 05:12 PM, said:

grend123, on Dec 1 2004, 08:37 AM, said:

If you believe a couple of scientists against the entire medical establishment, you're probably nogaiah b'davar.

Ah, yes.

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The truth is not always popular.

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And what you want to hear is not always the truth.

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I guess that would be just as (if not more) applicable yo you as it is to me.

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I don't smoke, nor do I particularly care about smoking. I have no reasons to justify it or revile it - it's not in my experience and I wouldn't have any interest in starting even if I were convinced it was healthy. I can notice the mainstream medical community agreeing that it is harmful.

You smoke and pull out a few isolated scientists who claim it's not that bad. Who is nogaiah here?

[Pinchas]

Heck, if you use the lazer treatment it practically pays for itself - in what you save by not buy packs and having lower life insurance premiums. . .

And you'll be able to taste food!

[cynic]

You might want to take a lesson on reading comprehension.
Here's a quote from the article YOU quoted:

'However, such benefits do not justify smoking. The lethal effects of cigarettes far outweigh any help they provide. On the other hand, our research does suggest that derivatives of nicotine, administered medically, could help to alleviate a range of psychiatric problems'

[Ahavah]

If nicotene can truly be used for medicinal purposes, tobacco farmers have hope!