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Supporting device for the suspension treatment of the tobacco habit

Supporting device for the suspension treatment of the tobacco habit description/claims

The present invention refers to a supporting device for the suspension treatment of the tobacco habit.

Injuries to health caused by smoking are widely known, ranging from cardiorespiratory problems to tumor pathologies, and anyhow a wide range of more or less serious problems is attributable to smoking.

Despite an unceasing information campaign on its hazards, smoking still is one of the main causes of decease, not to mention injuries caused by passive smoking.

One of the main reasons that make quitting smoking so difficult is the addiction created by nicotine present in cigarettes and in analogous tobacco-based products.

Many persons, even though firmly aware of their own injuries from smoking, are unable to quit in spite of endless attempts.

On the other hand, a plurality of pathologies, disorders and difficulties in general are known, caused by a prolonged abstinence from nicotine in a habitual smoker when he/she suspends the tobacco habit.

Inconveniences most commonly found are depressive states, agitation (even unjustified), insomnia, weight and appetite increase, irritability and concentration difficulties, which evidently make quitting smoking extremely difficult.

To attempt limiting the effects that abstinence may cause, basically two different solutions are resorted to. A first one is based on the administration of a modest dose of nicotine, following the suspension of the smoking habit and clearly not via cigarettes.

The second one exploits, by means of neurotransmitter stimulation, the release of endorphins, substances capable of limiting abstinence effects by substituting for nicotine.

In the first method generally there are used adhesive plasters (patches), to be applied on the skin, gradually and slowing releasing nicotine.

Such like plasters entail the advantage of being self-medication products, i.e., sold over-the-counter and applicable directly by the smoker, without the aid of a specialist. However, the mere intake of nicotine does not help fight those abstinence aspects related more to psychological reasons than to physical ones.

In fact, the habitual smoker usually lights a cigarette in specific situations or activities, like after coffee, during work, at the phone, that upon having quit smoking become difficult or disagreeable, just in that no cigarette is held in hand and such activities are unaccompanied by the gesture of bringing it to the mouth.

Moreover, though in limited amounts and without the damages deriving from smoking, alkaloid substances are anyhow assumed. Those cause addiction, and therefore, even upon having discontinued the use of nicotine plasters, leave the subject very weak to the temptation of resuming smoking.

The second method envisages instead the stimulation of specific body zones by acupuncture or finger pressure, so as to cause a release of endorphins that are capable of limiting any form of abstinence-related problems.

Moreover, in this case no substance intake whatsoever is necessary, as indeed endorphins, being endogenous substances, are directly released from the human body.

However, evidently such a method entails the drawback of having to be carried out by a specialist. In fact, the use of acupuncture needles, or in case the ability to manually effect a pressure that be both adequate and at the most appropriate zone, are activities not practicable by the same smoker willing to quit, as they require specific technical abilities and also since somebody else is actually necessary to work with a sufficient dexterity on the zones that has to be stimulated to attain endorphin release.

Evidently, going to a specialist to quit smoking entails expenses remarkably higher than those foreseeable with the use of a self-medication drug such as that in the above described plasters.

Hence, the technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide a device reducing those inconveniences deriving from the suspension of alkaloid intake, to which those resolving to quit smoking come up against, and allowing to overcome the drawbacks mentioned hereto with reference to the known art.

Such a problem is solved by a supporting device for the suspension treatment of the tobacco habit according to claim 1.

The present invention provides several relevant advantages. The main advantage lies in that the device is a self-medication product, and therefore it can be used directly by a person resolving to quit smoking, without however entailing the intake of any external substance, in particular alkaloids.

Other advantages, features and the modes of employ of the present invention will be made apparent in the following detailed description of some embodiments thereof, given by way of a non-limiting example.

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