Are You A Smoker That Runs?

Smoking has always been characterised as a manly, social thing to do. Right from school days, it was the hip thing to have a cigarette in your hand. Those who didn't smoke just weren't cool. The jocks tended to smoke and it didn't hinder their performance so most continued after school and into university.

At the higher levels of competition very few if any professionals smoke in the running fraternity. The reasons are by now pretty obvious. You cannot possibly run at your best if your lungs are gunked up with tar and nicotine addiction has you reaching for another cancer stick every few minutes.

I've noticed a few runners who were occasional smokers or as they refer to it, "social smokers" trying to give  up smoking. Due to the power of nicotine addiction this is not an easy task and the usual round of pills and potions have been tried to make the transition to not smoking easier.

Having had an acupuncturist work on wrist and ankle problems and having seen the great results for myself I was interested to see that a new stop smoking protocol has reared its head. Laser smoking therapy is taking off and from the results I've seen it looks to be quite succesful. It uses much the same approach that acupuncture does but instaed of needles they use a low beam laser pen. It stimulates the energy points and helps to relief the stress and anxiety that accompanies giving up smoking.

So if you are trying to quit smoking then give the laser smoking therapy a try, it might just help you to be a better runner.