Quit smoking today

I Quit Smoking’s R.I.S.E. (Reflection Instrument Scanning Electro-pulse) technology was developed as a result of the company’s commitment to creating a quick, natural and pain-free program.

The IQS system takes approximately 1 hour and is administered by an IQS-trained therapist. Prior to beginning the session, the smoker’s personal data (i.e., age, sex, number of years as a smoker, quantity of cigarettes per day, type of tobacco, etc.) is entered into the “No Smoke” software, which personalizes the session.

The next step is to assess the smoker’s motivation to quit through a variety of physical and psychological tests.

Once this step is completed, the IQS-trained therapist stimulates the auricles’ (or ear’s) reflex points with a Pod, while the customer remains comfortably seated in the chair. The R.I.S.E. device is equipped with a LCD monitor indicating the path to follow during the treatment, calibrating the personalised sequence of stimuli for each individual subject, with regard to power, duration and frequency of the electric stimulus.

The electrical stimulation helps to break up the poisonous substances of tobacco accumulated in the organs and increases the release of endorphins in the system.

This release of endorphins covers the nicotine molecules and the receptors relevant to tobacco addiction, thus reducing the craving for nicotine.

The increase of tobacco among women leads to an increase of cancer pathologies of the lungs (an increase of +5.5% during the years 1975 – 1993).

Apparently smoking reduces fertility, an extensive study has shown that while only 5% of non-smoking women did not conceive in the 5 years following the interruption of contraception, the percentage rises to 11% in the case of women who smoke heavily. Women who smoke run twice the risk of extra-uterus pregnancies compared to non-smoking women.

The former are also more prone to dysmenorrhea, uterus neck cancer, osteoporosis is more precocious and they enter menopause two years earlier.

The fetus is also exposed to several important risks and spontaneous abortion is more frequent. Carbon monoxide and nicotine cause an increase in heart beat frequency and premature births.

There is also an increase in prenatal deaths of babies who are hypotrophic at birth weighing less than 200 grams. Smoking women who breast-feed their babies transmit nicotine to their baby. Children of smoking parents run the risk, of catching bronchitis, bronco-pneumonia and otitis, through passive smoking. This risk is doubled during the first year of life.

The same applies to the incidence of asthma attacks whose gravity is definitely higher. Women who smoke and take oral contraceptives have a higher risk of heart attacks, stroke, phlebo-thrombosis and embolisms, particularly if older than 40 years.

As far as the skin is concerned, one may observe the signs of premature aging due to dystrophy, loss of elasticity and dyschromia. The action of nicotine is joined by that of oxidizing radicals inhaled among the more than 4,000 chemical substances produced by the combustion of the cigarette.

Stephen Hecht, a scholar of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, has proved the presence of NNK (nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamine)-1-(3- pyridyl)-1-butanone) i.e. one of the most carcinogenic (cancer causing) agents contained in the smoke of a cigarette, is found in the first urine of newborn babies of mothers who kept smoking during pregnancy.

Why quit smoking?

Most people are aware of the health hazards inherent in the habit of smoking and that tobacco smoke is a source of lung cancer as well as many other serious illnesses.

Furthermore every smoker knows how addictive tobacco can be as a drug and how difficult it is to part with this life long companion being solely reliant on one’s own will power. This is why smokers need help to quit.

Smoking affects all social classes and age groups, most alarmingly our youth. Because of health damage and the consequent hospital care, cigarette smoking results in huge medical expenditure around the globe. Statistics confirm that smoking and its related illnesses constitutes the primary cause of death in industrialized countries.

Only recently was nicotine declared a drug officially in all respects. Researchers from the tobacco industry had data for decades pertaining to its highly addictive nature. In a recent comparison between the properties of several major drugs such as; heroin, cocaine and alcohol, it has been found that nicotine has the highest addictive power.

Substance induced addiction is determined by; the difficulty a person encounters when trying to cease, the frequency of relapses, the percentage of dependent people and the “value” it has among the users, evidence of health damage notwithstanding. Next to pharmacological dependence the psychological dependence on nicotine plays a decisive role in the establishment of a tie between smoker and cigarette.

The triggers are mostly connected with; social and cultural factors, gestures associated with the action of smoking and to the amphetamine-like related effects. These effects induce expectations of better performances when facing social or work related pressure. Pharmacological and psychological dependence coexist within the same person and in a variety of people in different proportions.

Therefore smoking causes dependence and induces smokers to become slaves to the habit both on a physical and psychological level.

1 will die in violent circumstances

6 will die in car accidents

250 will be killed by tobacco induced related pathologies