Monitoring and quantification of smoking behaviors

a smoking behavior and monitoring technology, applied in the field of ambulatory physiological monitoring, can solve problems such as significant morbidity and mortality, and achieve the effect of limiting or improving smoking behaviors

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-09-13
ADIDAS
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[0006]This invention includes the use of an ambulatory cardio-respiratory monitoring system to provide data that can be processed and interpreted to monitor and quantify specific characteristics of a subject's cigarette and other...

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Smoking, whether of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or other smoking materials, is well known as a serious ...

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[0019]Preferred embodiments of the invention are now described. These embodiments do not limit the scope of the invention, since these embodiments are illustrations of several preferred aspects of the invention. Any equivalent embodiments are intended to be within the scope of this invention. Indeed, various modifications of the invention in addition to those shown and described herein, such as alternate useful combinations of the elements described, will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the subsequent description. Such modifications and combinations are also intended to fall within the scope of the appended claims. In the following (and in the application as a whole), headings and legends are used for clarity and convenience only.

[0020]This invention is useful for subjects that are monitored while ambulatory or that are monitored while in the clinic. This invention is further useful for laboratory monitoring and studies. Although, this invention may be described as ...

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Abstract

The invention provides methods for characterizing a subject's overall smoking behavior and the subject's puff morphology in dependence on tidal volume information provided by ambulatory physiological monitoring. This invention also systems for executing the methods of this invention and computer-readable media having encoded the methods of this invention.

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[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application No. 60 / 781,468 filed Mar. 9, 2006, the entire content of which is included herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is related to ambulatory physiological monitoring, and in particular to automatic systems and methods that quantify a subject's overall smoking behaviors over time and that quantify characteristics of the subject's method of smoking, e.g., the nature of the subject's puffs.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Smoking, whether of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or other smoking materials, is well known as a serious health problem worldwide leading to significant morbidity and mortality primarily from induced lung disease. It is advantageous to provide smokers with facilities and information to aid them to cease smoking, or to limit smoking, or to smoke in less pathogenic ways. It is also advantageous to estimate the likelihood and severity of po...

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IPC IPC(8): A24F25/00A24F47/00
CPCA24F47/00A61B5/0002A61B5/0205A61B5/04325A61B5/6805A61B5/0488A61B5/0496A61B5/091A61B5/1135A61B5/0476A61B5/335A61B5/369A61B5/389A61B5/398
Inventor DERCHAK, P. ALEXANDER
Owner ADIDAS
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