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A new mobile application that will help to stop nicotine dependence
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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A recent experiment of scientists has shown that to overcome the painful craving for smoking will help special text messages that come directly to the mobile phone. Messages that are interactive and motivating, helped to abandon the bad habit of more than 11% of smokers who participated in the pilot program.
The participants of the program were able to hold out for six months without cigarettes. Employees of one of the universities in the United States (George Washington) noted that in the control group, the results were much smaller - 5% of those who abandoned the addiction had lost it.
According to scientists, the effectiveness of the new method is that the messages regularly reminded a person that it is necessary to focus on the withdrawal from nicotine addiction.
In the modern market there are special mobile applications that are kind of "reminders" for quitters. For example, there is the application Time To Quit Smoke, which based on the statistics and individual preferences using the program (the number of smoked cigarettes a day and the frequency of smoking) calculates a schedule that will help to gradually abandon the addiction.
In the last study, 503 people took part, who wanted to quit smoking. The main advantages of the new development can be attributed to the fact that a person can, if necessary, ask for additional help or independently set a date to which it is necessary to completely get rid of nicotine addiction.
For example, if a person feels that there is an irresistible desire to smoke, he can send a message to which the response will come with advice or a distracting game.
Recently, scientists are developing more and more new ways that help smokers to abandon a bad habit. Recently, a designer from Taiwan, Zen and Wen, created a concept of cigarettes that help over time to completely overcome dependence on cigarettes.
She called her project "Tobacco", which includes packs in which cigarettes correspond to the habits of smokers.
The first design kit includes several types of cigarettes under individual numbering, so that a person knows the number of cigarettes smoked. The secret of these cigarettes is that in each next cigarette the amount of tobacco decreases, due to the lengthening of the filter, respectively, this reduces the flow of harmful substances into the body. As the designer believes, smokers need to show that they need to monitor their health more closely.
The second cigarette design "Tobacco Sharing" is designed to help stop smoking for more than one person, such as a friend of the owner of such designer cigarettes. The fact is that cigarettes have filters at both ends. A special pack, from which half can be given to a friend, will help reduce the flow of nicotine into the body, since special truncated cigarettes quite satisfy the desire to smoke.
The third design kit, entitled "Tobacco Day", includes packs of cigarettes on which the days of the month are printed. In this case, the secret is the same as in the first design kit, where there is a numbering of cigarettes.
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