RU2501578C1 - Method for tobacco smoking cessation - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to health protection, to methods for tobacco smoking and addiction cessation. A tobacco product is smoked until observing a smoking satiety sensation and a period of temporary tobacco independence. Two- to three-week stages follow with using cigarettes having a certain quantity of the equally spaced holes of the diameter of 0.7-1.0 mm formed around the filter border. At the initial stage, 2-3 holes are formed, and at the each following stage, the quantity of the holes increases by 2-3, but no more than 12. The number of the above stages is specified as soon as a sensation of smoking addition disappears. The each following stage distanced from the initial stage may be considered either as an intermediate stage, or as a final one which can end on any day tobacco smoking cessation.

EFFECT: providing higher effectiveness of tobacco smoking cessation ensured by a gradual decrease of smoker's nicotine requirement by reducing smoking pleasure and taste.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of health protection, to methods for stopping smoking and dependence on it.

Tobacco smoking is recognized worldwide as a risk factor for a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. Despite the large number of proposed modern methods for stopping smoking, the percentage of unsuccessful attempts to stop smoking remains significant.

A known method that reduces the risk of harm to smoking, which consists in reducing the level of smoking components, such as tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide by ventilating cigarettes. Ventilation is provided directly in the manufacture of cigarettes through the use of natural breathability of cigarette paper; in addition, many types of cigarettes are additionally ventilated through perforations made in the filter rim during production (http://www.mirtabaka.ru/O-sigaretah-a-66.html). However, the goal of a cigarette business is not to stop smoking, but rather to increase the consumption of this business product. Ventilation through breathable cigarette paper and holes in the rim of the filter is negligible, otherwise one of the consumer properties of cigarettes is lost in the form of pleasure from the smoking process.

Non-pharmacological methods are known, consisting, for example, of self-stopping smoking, using the work of a psychologist in conjunction with a therapist, in the use of a patch containing nicotine and fixed on the skin of the trunk, shoulder or thigh, as well as in the use of chewing gum (http: //www.medkirov.ru/site/tobacco-prevention).

The disadvantage of all these methods is the low efficiency in the end result of smoking cessation.

A known method of stopping smoking (prototype - RF patent No. 2330689), including smoking a tobacco product with a metered reduction in smoking, which is carried out by stopping it when there is a feeling of satiety when smoking a cigarette — the period of “temporary independence from smoking” occurs, while self-hypnosis is achieved the desired result - reducing smoking - by taking into account the dose of smoked, for which they keep under-smoked cigarettes, as well as by observing the increase in time from the moment of the period of “temporary independence from smoking” until the desire to smoke appears, that is, until the “start smoking” reflex is applied, and before using the method and until a long sensation of satiety occurs with the possibility of conscious suppression of the “start smoking” reflex — that is to “overcome the threshold of dependence on smoking” - a favorable psycho-emotional background is formed in the smoker by creating confidence in the success of smoking cessation. When using this method, in the vast majority of cases, the feeling of "smoking" comes much earlier than a cigarette burns out to the end. The inventor called this feeling of satiety with smoking “temporary independence from smoking”.

The disadvantage of the prototype is the confrontation of the smoker between the mood to quit smoking through visual self-control of the length of the smoked cigarette and the body’s craving for the next dose of nicotine, which is not objectively limited, which significantly reduces the likelihood of a positive result (complete cessation of smoking). The smoker must consciously, through self-hypnosis, force himself to reduce the dose of each subsequent cigarette smoked and control the decrease in this dose. The method is difficult to perform technically and psychologically, therefore, it has low efficiency in the end result of smoking cessation, cannot have mass application.

The technical result of the invention is to increase the effectiveness of cessation of tobacco smoking by gradually reducing the needs of the smoker's body for nicotine by reducing the pleasure and taste perception of the smoking process.

The technical result is achieved by the fact that the method of stopping smoking involves smoking each tobacco product with stopping smoking when there is a feeling of satiety from smoking a cigarette and with a period of “temporary independence from smoking”, in which according to the invention, two to three weekly steps are carried out in succession before by smoking in cigarette paper each cigarette in a circle at the border with the filter of holes with a diameter of 0.7-1.0 mm with a uniform interval of a predetermined quantity two, at the initial stage, 2-3 holes are made, then at each subsequent stage the number of holes is increased by 2-3, but no more than 12, the number of these steps is carried out until there is a feeling of lack of attraction to the smoking process, with each stage being distant from the initial stage, it can be either intermediate or final, which can end on any day the cessation of smoking.

The method is as follows. The method aims to smoothly reduce the needs of the smoker's body in nicotine by reducing the pleasure of the smoking process. Throughout the whole process of applying the method, each tobacco product is smoked with smoking stopped when there is a feeling of satiety when smoking a cigarette, which can occur much earlier than the cigarette burns out to the end, as well as the smoker's period of “temporary independence from smoking”. The period of "temporary independence from smoking" means the period from the end of smoking one cigarette to the start of smoking another cigarette. At all two to three weekly stages of applying this method, before smoking each cigarette in its cigarette paper, the required number of holes is made at regular intervals at regular intervals at the filter boundary, and with a significant number of steps, the maximum number of holes in one cigarette should not exceed 12. These holes serve to additionally mix fresh air into smoking smoke and to obtain a small initial effect of reducing taste perception. At the same time, the process of restoring the taste buds of the smoker begins, the natural functioning of which was disrupted by the smoking process. The uniform intervals between the openings serve for the purpose of uniformly mixing fresh air with smoking smoke. The holes are made with a diameter of 0.7-1.0 mm, since a diameter of less than 0.7 mm leads to an insufficient mixture of fresh air in the cigarette, a diameter of more than 1.0 mm leads to a deterioration in the uniformity of mixing of fresh air with smoking smoke in the cigarette. These holes are made, for example, with a safety pin, the diameter of which in most cases is in the specified range, which can be measured with a caliper. In addition, a safety pin is always convenient to carry.

The diameter of the holes and their number (2-3 - at the initial stage of cessation of tobacco smoking and 2-3, additionally performed at each subsequent stage) provide the optimal dose of mixed air in smoking smoke so that the smoker, on the one hand, feels a partial decrease in taste perception from smoking process, and on the other hand, there was no desire to stop using this method. During the application of this method, smoking cigarettes with holes awakens and increases to a natural feeling an aversion to the smell and taste of tobacco smoke. This entails a natural increase in the time intervals between breaks, i.e. the total dose of nicotine is reduced, but at each stage it remains sufficient so that the smoker does not have negative emotional stress.

At each stage of cessation of smoking, consisting of a period of time of 2-3 weeks, there is a partial gradual restoration of natural taste buds. A time interval of less than 2 weeks is insufficient for partial restoration of taste buds, and more than 3 weeks leads to an unjustified increase in the total time of application of this method. The number of stages for stopping smoking substantially depends on smoking experience, since it is known that the degree of dependence on nicotine directly depends on smoking experience. Therefore, each stage that is distant from the initial stage can be either an intermediate or final stage of cessation of smoking for each individual person. In this case, the final stage can end on any day of cessation of smoking.

At the initial stage of cessation of smoking, which lasts 2-3 weeks, before smoking each cigarette in its cigarette paper, 2-3 holes are made at regular intervals at the intervals with the filter at regular intervals. Being at the initial stage of smoking cessation (duration 2-3 weeks) after 2 weeks of this stage, the smoker must conduct a personal test - in the test mode test transition - on the possibility of moving to the next stage immediately after 2 weeks or deciding to stay on the initial phase of the third week. To do this, he carries out a test smoking of one cigarette, made according to the criteria of the next stage: in it he must make an additional number of holes corresponding to the next stage, that is, add 2-3 more to the 2-3 initial holes, and perform already 4- at regular intervals 6 holes in cigarette paper at the border with the filter. After smoking one such cigarette, he must evaluate his feelings of taste perception, analyzing his feelings: whether the sensation of taste and strength of the cigarette has weakened. If the sense of taste and strength of cigarettes has practically disappeared, the smoker remains at the initial stage for the third week. If the sense of taste and strength weakened, but did not disappear completely, then the transition to the next 2-3-week stage is carried out.

Then, being at each next stage, after two weeks from the beginning of the next stage, it is necessary to conduct the above personal test (with the addition of additional 2-3 holes to the number of holes of the corresponding stage) on the possibility of moving to the next stage immediately after 2 weeks or take the decision to stay at this stage for the third week. The number of two or three weekly stages should be carried out as long as the smoker needs time to feel complete independence from nicotine and a lack of attraction to the smoking process. With a significant number of two or three weekly stages, the maximum number of holes in one cigarette should not exceed 12, since with the maximum diameter of one hole (1.0 mm according to the invention) and the number of holes 12 or more, the effect of gustatory attractiveness completely disappears from the smoking process itself .

Example 1 (also shown in the table). Woman, 52 years old, smoking experience 20 years, smoking rate per day about 20 cigarettes without night breaks. Implemented a method of stopping smoking according to the invention. During the application of the method, the brand of cigarettes did not change. At the initial stage, before smoking each cigarette in cigarette paper, 2 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm were made with a uniform interval at the border with the filter. To make holes I used a safety pin with a needle with a diameter of 0.7 mm. After two weeks of the initial stage, I conducted a personal test for the possibility of moving to the next stage immediately after 2 weeks or deciding to stay at this stage for the third week. To do this, in one cigarette she made 4 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm with a uniform interval at the border with the filter. Having smoked this cigarette, she analyzed her feelings: she did not like the sharp decrease in the taste perception of smoking smoke, so she decided to continue the initial stage for the third week with 2 holes. At the end of the third week of the initial stage, the woman moved on to the next - second - stage, performing 4 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm. After 2 weeks of the second stage, I performed a test transition to the third stage in testing mode, having completed 6 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm in a cigarette. Having smoked one such cigarette and having analyzed the taste sensations, I decided to go to the 3rd stage, since I felt a decrease in taste perception from the process of smoking a cigarette, but not its disappearance at all, there was no irritation effect from taste perception. In addition, there was a desire to smoke less often: the number of cigarettes smoked decreased to 12-15, a slight feeling of disgust for the smoking process began to appear. At the end of 2 weeks of the third stage, there was a desire to speed up the process of stopping smoking within the framework of the method. Carried out a test transition to the 4th stage by completing 8 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm in a cigarette. After smoking this cigarette, she realized that there was practically no taste sensation from smoking, a sense of disgust increased, but it was still overcome by a residual dependence on nicotine. She decided to go to stage 4, where she smokes 7-8 cigarettes a day. At the end of 2 weeks of the 4th stage, she made a test transition to the fifth stage, making 10 holes with a diameter of 0.7 mm and decided to go to the 5th stage. On the 7th day of the fifth stage, there was a complete abandonment of the smoking process without any emotional and psychological excitations and with a steady aversion to tobacco smoke. Examples 1-7 are shown in the table.

As can be seen from the table, in the above examples, various categories of smokers (men and women of different ages and different smoking experience), using the proposed method, completely give up smoking. Thus, the method allows, after each successive stage, in each of which the ventilated ability of the cigarettes is further increased, to feel a decrease in the taste perception of smoking smoke and, as a result, a partial gradual restoration of the natural taste buds occurs. The resulting automatism of the fight against increasing aversion to tobacco smoke with a weakening craving for nicotine leads to a complete cessation of smoking.

The psyche of a person who quit smoking in this way corresponds to the psyche of a person who has never smoked, since during the application of the method no correction of relations is required from the people around him, changes in the behavioral function of the smoker, the emotional pressure of the smoker on himself.

Claims (1)

A method of stopping smoking, including smoking each tobacco product with stopping smoking when there is a feeling of satiety from smoking a cigarette and with a period of “temporary independence from smoking”, characterized in that the two-, three-week stages are carried out sequentially with each cigarette being executed before smoking in cigarette paper around the circumference at the border with the filter of holes with a diameter of 0.7-1.0 mm with a uniform interval of a given quantity, while at the initial stage 2-3 holes are made tia, then at each subsequent stage the number of holes is increased by 2-3, but not more than 12, the number of these stages is carried out until there is a feeling of lack of attraction to the smoking process, while each stage that is distant from the initial stage can be either intermediate or final , which may end on any day of cessation of smoking.