Kit and method for facilitating stopping smoking
AssigneeGat-A-Grip Enterprises
InventorJoseph A. Constantino
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Abstract
A kit for facilitating a person stopping smoking includes a resilient, manually graspable tactile device or grip that is about the shape and size of a usual pack of cigarettes that fits into the hand of a person, and inducement means for inducing a person to use the tactile means and for instructing the person in the use of the kit, the inducement means may include prerecorded audio material and/or printed material. A method to facilitate a person stopping smoking includes holding a tactile means is one hand, squeezing the tactile means until a burning sensation is experienced in the forearm, releasing the tactile means, changing hands and repeating the foregoing steps until the desire to smoke a cigarette decreases to a controllable level.
Claims6
A kit for facilitating a person stopping smoking, comprising
- tactile means for manual grasping by a person, and
- inducement means for inducing a person to use the tactile means and for instructing the person in the use of the kit, and
- said inducement means comprising means for encouraging the person to use the tactile means as a substitute for smoking.
A method to facilitate a person stopping smoking, comprising
- holding a tactile means in one hand,
- squeezing the tactile means until a burning sensation is experienced in the forearm,
- releasing the tactile means, and
- further comprising repeating the foregoing steps until the desire to smoke a cigarette decreases to a controllable level.
A method to facilitate a person stopping smoking, comprising
- holding a tactile means in one hand,
- squeezing the tactile means until a burning sensation is experienced in the forearm,
- releasing the tactile means, and
- further comprising repeating the foregoing steps until the desire to smoke a cigarette at that time is gone.
A method to facilitate a person stopping smoking, comprising
- holding a tactile means in one hand,
- squeezing the tactile means until a burning sensation is experienced in the forearm,
- releasing the tactile means, and
- further comprising reviewing inducement material for encouragement to use the tactile means and to perform the foregoing steps as a substitute for smoking a cigarette.
A method to facilitate a person stopping smoking, comprising
- holding a tactile means in one hand,
- squeezing the tactile means until a burning sensation is experienced in the forearm,
- releasing the tactile means.
- wherein the tactile means is resilient and of a size to fit in one hand, and said squeezing comprises squeezing the resilient means to change the shape thereof and maintaining a secure hold and squeeze pressure on the resilient means until the burning sensation is experienced in the forearm of the hand doing the squeezing, and
- further comprising repeating the foregoing steps until the desire to smoke a cigarette at that time is gone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.