METHOD FOR TREATING THE CASES OF NICOTINE ABSTINENCE SYNDROME

摘要

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves making decision concerning the preliminary time period of giving up smoking to be over, when the first abstinence syndrome signs having been manifested in a patient. Acupuncture therapy session is carried out making the patient reproduce the process of lighting a cigarette together with concomitant gustatory and olfactory sensations in mind every 1-2 min. The acupuncture therapy session is to be stopped when the patient turns out to be incapable of feeling any gustatory and olfactory sensations in some following attempt to reproduce in mind the process of lighting a cigarette. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment. 3 cl