COMPLEX TREATMENT OF TOBACCO SMOKING WITH CORRECTION OF WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME MANIFESTATIONS AND BODY WEIGHT GAIN Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61N5/02 A61H39/00 A23L1/29 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely - to reflexotherapy, psychiatry, addictology. At the withdrawal syndome peak, a complex treatment involves millimeter wave therapy (MWT) of biologically active points (BAP) and nutrition. The MWT exposure is conducted in a pseudonoise radiation mode, frequency range 54 - 70 GHz, output power up to 0.3 mWt, procedure duration 30 minutes. The main MWT procedures are performed on 1^st-5^th and 8^th-9^th therapeutic days. In 1 and 6 months, supportive therapeutic courses including 1-3 MWT sessions are carried out. In the patients with a body weight index (BWI) not exceeding 25 units, nutrition does not require caloric value limitation. In the patients with the BWI exceeding 25 units, nutrition requires caloric value limitation. That is ensured by limited consumption of simple carbohydrates and animal fats up to 10 % each from the caloric value, and by enrichment with protein up to 25 % from the caloric value, with vegetable fats - up to 20 % from the caloric value, with cellulose - up to 30 g.

EFFECT: method provides the prevention of body weight gain and other withdrawal syndrome manifestations during smoking cessation without additional use of a drug-induced therapy.

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