Smoking is a pernicious habit. It is highly unjurious to your health, costs a fortune and is becoming more and more socially unacceptable. Little by little there is a movement amongst smokers to give it up.

The laser method to stop smoking relies on the basic principles of acupuncture. Low level laser is used to apply to acupuncture points on the body. The intention is that this will act on the nerve endings in the area to which the laser is applied. This will stimulate the nerves thereby producing endorphins. Those endorphins, in turn, act to significantly reduce the cravings that are a product of nicotine withdrawal, and if the cravings produced by the cigarette addiction are reduced or eliminated the ability to withdraw without significant stress is improved.

If you read the websites of the stop smoking laser therapy practitioners you will see that in some cases they quote medical or scientific evidence in support of the efficacy of their low level laser therapy treatments to combat smoking. However the reality is that it is extremely difficult to find solid scientific evidence in support of the therapy. Those who quote so called medical evidence do not give links to papers where that evidence is published.

I have not been able to find any reputable scientific study that supports the conclusion that quit smoking laser therapy works. Now of course that doesn't mean that laser therapy to quit smoking does not work. Nor does it mean that there is no evidence that it works, just that I haven't seen it.

For that reason I have started a website dedicated to low level quit smoking laser therapy. To investigate the evidence or lack of evidence and to provide a place where the general public can read more about laser therapy, and in particular to document their own experiences with laser to stop smoking. Anyone can add their experience with laser therapy to my website, either good or bad, so that other visitors can read it and learn.

However there is a wide range of other sources that claim that anti smoking laser is a fraud. I have listed many of them on my website The Quit Smoking Laser Therapy Guide.

For example in 2006 the public defender consumer group Public Citizen petitioned the US FDA to ask it to stop 5 prominent anti smoking laser therapy clinics from claiming that their laser therapy works to stop people smoking on the basis that there is no evidence that laser works at all.

I'm not saying that laser therapy to stop smoking works or it doesn't. I don't know. I'm just pointing out some resources that you might like to have a look at if you're thinking of undergoing quit smoking laser therapy.

There seems to be no solid evidence either way, so it's up to you to make up your own mind.

Oh, and if you do (or have already done) quit smoking laser therapy please visit my website and leave some feedback on how it went, good or bad, for the benefit of all the readers of the site who want some unbiased feedback from those who have already tried it. Thanks