The facts abpout smoking: Recent studies have shown that smoking destroys blood circulation. The damage being done isn't just to the vessels supplying blood to our heart and brain, it's occurring - to one degree or another - inside every vessel in your body, which causes heart attach or stroke. Other well-known smoking related diseases are lung cancer, sore throats and skin rashes, chest infections, asthma, stress, migraines and many more.

If you smoke whilst pregnant, it can easily harm your baby and increases the risk of premature birth or can result in your baby being underweight. Smoking causes 120,000 deaths per year in the UK.

Even at the age of 60, giving up smoking almost completely removes the risk of lung cancer, research has found. Financially, as an average smoker, your habit may cost you over £800 a year.

In front of those hard facts, more and more smokers want to give up, however it has proved not an easy task.

Even if you are really determined to stop, you may have found that willpower alone is not sufficient. All over the world, people have tried different methods to stop smoking. Nicotine patches, hypnosis and so no have been developed. Sometimes they work, but more often they do not.

The easy way: Acupuncture is a tried and tested way of providing help to stop smoking. Acupuncture is a system of medicine, which restores and maintains health by the insertion of fine needles into specific points on the surface of the body to re-balance and strengthen self-healing power. It can treat many conditions especially addictions, such as nicotine, alcohol, drugs, etc.

Over the years, Sino Medica has helped many people, who have been addicted to nicotine for up to 40 years, to quit without suffering. Of those treated, about 70% have stopped smoking completely after one session of treatment. About 20% smokers have reduced the amount of cigarettes greatly after the first session and stop smoking completely after two or more sessions of treatments. The rest of them needed a few more sessions or regular treatment, such as once every 3 months to help control the craving for nicotine, which depends on their lifestyle and how stressed they are.

If other members of a family are also smoking, it may have an adverse affect on your desire to quit. The reason is obvious because you are easily tempted. It is better if people close to you are also trying to quit so you can mentally support each other.

Acupuncture can help stop smoking the easy way; make you feel calm, relaxed and happier. It can also relieve symptoms of asthma, migraine, stress and insomnia. This is because acupuncture re-balances the vital energy of the body - the Qi, which flows continuously around the meridian system. This system is an energetic network of channels that not only connects the acupuncture points to each other but also directly influences the functioning of the internal organs and other controlling systems of the body.

Acupuncture is a very relaxed way to stop smoking and it works fast without pain or side effects. Before you see an acupuncturist, however, you should make sure that the person is fully qualified and affiliated to the British Acupuncture Council and that they have relevant experience. Also, make sure that the needles used are sterile, disposable ones.

Willpower is not enough. Why not seek help and guidance?