From: Kindo Health Center
890 Elm Grove Rd.
Elm Grove, WI
Contact: Jordan Fox, (414) 352-2645
(Milwaukee, June 18, 2010–) With Wisconsin’s state-wide smoking ban going into effect July 5, Milwaukee area residents who want to kick that insidious smoking habit that they’ve nourished all these years can look to Dr. Arthur Rapkin for help. He says acupuncture can do the job. He’s a local practitioner of acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Kindo Center, 890 Elm Grove Rd., Elm Grove.
“If you’ve ever tried to kick the smoking habit yourself, you know how difficult that can be,” says Dr. Rapkin. “Our acupuncture treatment is an intensive, but effective way of doing it.”
According to the National Institute of Health, acupuncture has been proven effective in stopping smoking, eliminating cravings to smoke and stopping withdrawal symptoms associated with the cessation of smoking. “Our experiences with our patients verifies that fact,” says Dr. Rapkin..
“Acupuncture guides the movement of the body’s vital energies and positively influences the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems,” he says.
According to him, an acupuncture treatment does not work by simply taking away nicotine cravings or by mitigating the side effects of withdrawal. Instead it teaches the patient’s body how to overcome these symptoms on its own. “For this reason, people who overcome a tobacco addiction with the help of acupuncture often will emerge stronger than they were before becoming dependent in the first place. A person who has been free all his or her life can not possibly appreciate freedom the way a liberated nicotine slave can.”
A widely experienced practitioner of oriental medicine, acupuncture and Chinese herbology for more than 25 years, Dr. Rapkin serves on acupuncture boards and advisory committees for the state of Wisconsin and national health organizations.
More information can be obtained by contacting him at the Kindo Center, (262) 827-4000.
