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Their employer, Peter Fry from Noosa Destinations, said that since all five had stopped smoking it has been like having one extra staff member working for me at no extra cost. In fact, all of my staff have benefited and they are all much happier in their work - and naturally, the ex-smokers are very proud of their achievement, added Peter.

Apart from the obvious health benefits for the individuals, I have also got my staff back and now they are focussed on the job 100% of the time. The resulting increase in staff productivity has paid for the therapy many times over Peter added, and everyone in the office agrees that it really has been a win/win situation for all involved.

The staff were recommended to LaserTrend at Chancellor Park/Sippy Downs for the therapy and although they were keen, the ease of the process almost sounded too good to be true. However, to their pleasant surprise it worked immediately for them all. Ive wanted to stop smoking for a long time, but I really didnt believe that it would be so easy and painless, commented one of the participants.

To quit smoking cold turkey is very difficult to do and it can have some unpleasant side effects, but Laser Therapy makes it very easy. The therapy is a modern version of the ancient technique of acupuncture, using a cold laser to stimulate the bodys production of natural endorphins. Many people even find the therapy relaxing and the staff at Noosa Destinations have been recommending the Laser Therapy to every smoker they know.

"Smoko" breaks dramatically cut productive work time

Unlike proactive employers like Peter Fry, few realise that a "quick smoke" can cost up to twenty-five minutes in productive time many times a day. It starts when the smokers get distracted by thinking about having a cigarette, then three or four minutes are lost on closing up the current work task, 10 minutes are spent on smoking the cigarette and seven or eight minutes spent regaining momentum.

These are the cold hard facts according to research conducted by Win Stanley, Woodward and Walker (Tobacco in Australia facts and issues, Quit Victoria, 1995). So, if there are 10 smokers in a workplace and each take three, 25 minute smoking breaks per day, the result will be a loss of 12.5 hours of work time in just one day.

Then, of course, there are the really grim facts that each year smoking kills more than 19,000 people and costs the nation $21 billion in health and social costs, according to Collins and Lapsley in their 2002 study - Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-9.

So any method that can make quitting easier and faster without any negative side effects is actually benefiting the entire community. LaserTrend is the first Laser Treatment Clinic in Australia to focus on helping people to quit smoking something they have been doing since 2001. LaserTrend also use this unique therapy for a range of other conditions such as pain relief, arthritis and much more.