Smoking Hormones

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Dear gigigrem,

 

Of course, the many substances found (and not yet found) in tobacco smoke

mess up your body, including your hormones (which - according to my knowledge

have NOTHING to do with Oriental medicine - they, too, get influenced by TCM

treatment, but you don't use them for diagnosis or for a TCM treatment plan)

Without meaning to impose anything on you, I'd suggest that you don't look

for hormones that are responsible for your smoking habit, but for the

(presumed) " advantages " that keep you smoking (e.g. feeling attractive, cool,

" be one

of them " , putting something in your mouth, etc. etc.)

Unless, of course, you just want to cut down - in which case you can stop

worrying about why you didn't stop yet.

 

As I said, I don't want to impose anything on you, this is just what works

for me.

Feel free to try it out or not.

 

Best regards

Rebecca

 

> I recently had acupuncture in my ears to stop smoking. I have had 4

> treatments and have cut down my smoking from a pack a day to 5

> cigarettes a day. When I asked my practitioner why I was having so

> much trouble quiting all together, she said because my hormones were

> out of balance and so it made it harder for me to stop.

>

> She said there were four hormones in the body and they all needed to

> be in balance. I believe she said one was thyroid, one was uterus

> and I don't remember what the other ones were.

>

> Can someone please tell me what the hormones are. And also, I am

> having trouble understanding hormones as related to Oriental

> medicine. All I keep thinking of is the Western medical thinking of

> hormones meaning menopause (or hormones that women have).

>

> Thank you.

>

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