Overview
Tobacco contains many kinds of noxious substances such as nicotine. Breathing in those noxious substances may lead to disturbance of Zangfu, meridians and collaterals, qi and blood, disharmony of yin and yang, then result in many diseases, such as lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary heart disease, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and cirrhosis of liver. If the smoking addiction patients stop smoking, they feel feeble and weakness, dysphoria, frequent chasma, fiat feeling in the mouth, even withdrawal syndromes such as gloomy mind, chest distress, anxiety, dysesthesia will appear. Puncture the corresponding acupoint can coordinate yin and yang, regulate functional disorder of Zangfu, meridians and collaterals, qi and blood to eliminate withdrawal symptoms and thorough sopping smoking. Therapeutic principle is clearing away heart-fire and calming the nerves, harmonizing yin and yang.

Treatment
1. Stopping smoking point
It is an extraordinary point. Location: between Lieque (LU7) and Yangxi (LI5). ① Acupuncture therapy with method of reduction: retain the needle for 30 minutes, and manipulate the needle intermittently. Treatment is done 1-2 times every day. ② Laser acupuncture therapy. Choose little power He-Ne laser acupuncture to irradiate acupoint for 1-2 minutes. The therapy is done once every day. ③ Drug application on the acupoint: take equal parts of clove, cassia bark, monosodium glutamate (gourmet power). Clove and cassia bark are ground into fine power, Riddle power with 100 screen opening sieve. Melt black sticking plaster 6 times as much as the dosage of clove and cassia bark with heating. And incorporate clove and cassia bark power. When the temperature decreases to 60℃, incorporates monosodium glutamate. Keep temperature and make plaster by water bath. Every plaster weight 1 gram with the Paper at size of 2.5 x 2.5 cm. Apply the drug plaster on the painful pressure extraordinary point for 24 hours. After applying the drug plaster 10 minutes, try to smoke 1-2 pieces according the smoking amount in normal time, and write down the response. If there are some responses such as the taste change of cigarettes, the treating effect is much better.

2. Ear Point Lung
Look for painful pressure point before needling or pressing seed. Stop smoking for 12 hours before the treatment. Acupuncture treatment should be carried out when patient stops smoking. Manipulate needle with method of reduction and retain the needle for 20-30 minutes. Treatment is done once every day. And stimulate two ears alternatively. Pasting and embedding needle also can be used. Press the ear point intensively, if there is a craving for tobacco, during needle-embedding treatment (Cowherb Seed pasting).

Note
Acupuncture to stop smoking has some effect, but there is larger individual difference. Only keep holding the faith and treating for long time, which can help patient achieve withdrawal purpose.