Smoking cessation devices, methods of use and methods of conducting business therewith

Abstract

The present invention provides several smoking and tobacco use cessation devices and methods which entirely eliminate the requirement of ignition and burning of substances which emit harmful substances and vapors while simultaneously providing therapeutically efficacious amounts of nicotine and / or nicotine substitutes, and optionally tobacco aroma and taste and / or other undesirable habit inhibiting compounds and antagonists and other desirable orally ingestible substances.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present inventive product and method is directed to smoking cessation devices, and particularly to cigarette props and facsimiles and / or other oral devices comprising nicotine replacement products and / or other anti-habit or habit combating substances, and any orally deliverable substance. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco use, including snuff and the like, are known to be major causes of otherwise preventable disease and death throughout the world. In fact, tobacco use is thought by some to be the most dangerous of habits as it kills more people each year than any other drug or addicting habit, with one of its major dangers being the conversion of nicotine, the most prevalent alkaloid found in tobacco, by the body into chemicals that have been shown to cause various diseases including lung cancer. See, for example, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000; 97:12493-12497, suggesting pathways ...

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Benefits of technology

[0022] In accordance with that set forth above there is provided by the present invention novel smoking and tobacco cessation devices and methods which entirely eliminate the requirement of ignition and burning of substances which emit harmful vapors, while simultaneously providing therapeutically efficacious amounts of nicotine and / or nicotine substitutes, and optionally other undesirable habit inhibiting compounds and antagonists, and other orally ingestible substances. The inventive cessation aid also simultaneously provides and satisfies, with the use of each of such devices, learned or otherwise acquired collateral or ancillary activities and rituals associated with smoking behaviors including the initiation and consummated act and process of lighting up, smoking and inhaling tobacco products.

Problems solved by technology

Cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco use, including snuff and the like, are known to be major causes of otherwise preventable disease and death throughout the world.

In fact, tobacco use is thought by some to be the most dangerous of habits as it kills more people each year than any other drug or addicting habit, with one of its major dangers being the conversion of nicotine, the most prevalent alkaloid found in tobacco, by the body into chemicals that have been shown to cause various diseases including lung cancer.

Nicotine is only part of the problem; however, as tobacco leaves contain many complex chemicals thought to be in excess of four thousand.

Carbon monoxide is particularly dangerous as it has a stronger affinity to hemoglobin than oxygen and will reduce the amount of available oxygen in a person's blood supply, including those in contact with second hand smoke.

Some adverse effects of such oxygen replacement, or “starvation”, of the body may be hindered muscle and mental function, as well as the development of various lung diseases including emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, congestive heart failure and generally diminished lung capacity.

Tobacco users can also expect to be at extreme risk of developing cancer of the lung, throat, mouth and esophagus, stoke, coronary heart disease, circulation problems and many other diseases.

Smoking tobacco in any form is also well known to endanger all those in close proximity or in contact with smoking byproducts which pollute the air, otherwise known as secondhand smoke.

The United States Surgeon General in 1990 has in fact issued a warning that passive inhalation of secondhand smoke by non-smokers is extremely harmful.

Tobacco use, especially smoking, also has many adverse consequences besides health deterioration, such as adverse economic effects in the form of outrageously expensive and highly taxed cigarettes, high insurance premiums, cleaning, productivity, ventilation and accident costs.

However, despite the well documented extreme adverse effects of smoking, and tobacco use in general, many thousands of people who would like not to smoke or use tobacco simply cannot overcome the powerfully addictive nature of nicotine, or additionally, perhaps, customs, social behavior, moors, behavioral habits and other activities typically, or traditionally, associated with smoking and tobacco use.

However, the many acts associated with smoking, such as holding a cigarette or cigar and the like with associated hand to mouth actions, and which are oftentimes as much a habit as smoking itself, are noticeably missing.

Apparently, the release of this product was halted because its presence would have implied that smoking cigarettes and the like was indeed hazardous.

This introduction of this product, however, would seem to confirm the inherently deadly nature of cigarettes and other tobacco combustion devices for those who have previously thought otherwise.

Again, the inherently deadly nature of smoking tobacco combustion products is corroborated by the development and presence of this product.

This product can only be smoked in its special electronic device, which is cumbersome and impractical for use to say the least, and still produces deadly carcinogenic combustion products.

This device is purely a prop or simulated cigarette and is not a drug delivery product or method, such as a nicotine replacement or other drug delivery devices discussed above, and will not replace chemical dependency to satisfy the tobacco addict for long term cessation of tobacco use.

As shown, such a device and method is undesirable on several fronts as it requires a burning section and the vaporized release of harmful chemicals, including such harmful byproducts from burning tobacco with nicotine as above described.

As must be obvious to anyone, however, smoking formaldehyde or any other embalming fluid is not thought to be particularly desirable, or advisable.

Other conventional tobacco smoking cessation aids are available in the form of patches which, while no doubt are at least somewhat effective, are oftentimes ignored or left unused as they do not provide nor oral or tactile stimulus, and are foreign to rituals associated with cigarette use.

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