Tobacco – Antismoking product or device – i.e. – deterent
Patent
1994-12-21
1997-07-08
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Antismoking product or device, i.e., deterent
128859, A24F 4700
Patent
active
056450885
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a device which is intended and adapted to be enclosed by a space defined between the frontal surfaces of the teeth and the inner surfaces of the lips of a user.
The inventive device is intended to assist people who suffer from a smoking or tobacco dependency and who wish consciously to take measures to overcome their smoking dependency.
More specifically, the inventive device is intended to function as an auxiliary for people who do not have sufficient willpower to stop smoking immediately, but who wish to reduce their smoking habit successively, at their own pace.
KNOWN PRIOR ART
Ingrained smokers who wish to overcome a pronounced craving to smoke have at least three mutually independent habits and cravings to overcome:
Habit of Movement
When smoking, the smoker will move his/her hands in a pattern which has become habitual and which is therefore normally deeply rooted. Normally, there is a certain ceremonial touch over the movement pattern of the hands of a smoker as he/she smokes, for instance the manner in which a cigarette, cigar, pipe or like device is held and moved.
The Desire to Smoke
In the act of smoking, the air or gas which passes through the cigarette, etc., as the smoker draws on the cigarette meets a certain resistance, the magnitude of which depends on the flow rate of the inhalation air. Consequently, there exists an ingrained feeling that the inhalation air does not constantly obtain free passage through the pharynx and down into the lungs.
Craving for Nicotine
Finally, as a result of the smoke generated and the inhalation of this smoke, there is delivered to the smoker a highly habit-forming, stimulating poison in the form of nicotine.
There are known to the art several different devices and proposals for enabling a person suffering from a tobacco dependency to reduce his/her tobacco consumption successively as opposed to stopping smoking completely.
For instance, various methods have been proposed for successively reducing the craving for nicotine.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
TECHNICAL PROBLEM
When considering the present standpoint of techniques, as described above, it will be seen that a technical problem exists in providing a device which in a first withdrawal stage provides a possibility of overcoming solely the aforesaid movement habits, and also a possibility of completely satisfying the desire to smoke and the craving for nicotine.
It will also be seen that a technical problem resides in the provision of a device which, after having overcome the movement habit, is able to provide a possibility of overcoming the craving for nicotine, either immediately or successively over a period of time, but while still satisfying the desire to smoke during the whole of the treatment period.
It will also be seen from the present state of techniques that a technical problem resides in the ability to realize the significance of providing a device which can be held in the mouth and which is so configured that an airflow drawn therethrough (inhalation) will meet with a resistance which corresponds to or essentially corresponds to the resistance applicable to the airflow through a cigarette, cigar, pipe or the like at a flow rate which is applicable to normal smoking.
It will also be seen that a technical problem is one of being able to realize the significance of configuring the device so that it can be enclosed in a space defined by the user between frontal surfaces of the teeth and the inner surfaces of the lips.
Another technical problem in this respect is one of being able to realize the significance of configuring said device with a central part and by forming a peripheral part from a saliva-dissolved material, or by constructing the device as a whole from a saliva-dissolved material, i.e. the device exists in tablet form.
It must also be considered a technical problem to realize the significance of selecting the peripheral part from a material which is more dissolved readily by saliva than the central part.
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