Computer-Based Smoking Cessation System with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smoking cessation methods, particularly for psychological nicotine dependence, face challenges due to limited access to health professionals and the inability to provide timely, tailored therapy, leading to low long-term success rates as existing systems cannot finely tune therapy to the patient's hourly varying needs and lack continuous coaching support.
Innovation Solution
A computer-based system that receives patient input on their current condition and smoking-related history, decides when to provide cognitive-behavioral therapy and behavioral therapy, allowing for real-time adjustments to therapy based on the patient's understanding and condition, enabling continuous coaching and medication adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a health professional provides smoking cessation therapy through outpatient visits, then the patient receives personalized coaching and therapy, but the frequency and duration of therapy are limited by insurance coverage and office hours
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a computer-based system that acts as an intermediary between the health professional and the patient. The server stores therapy information and communicates with the patient's electronic device, enabling continuous access to personalized therapy content without requiring direct professional involvement at every moment. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining therapy reliability through the intermediary system while extending therapy duration beyond office hours and insurance limitations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares and stores personalized therapy information in advance on the server before the patient needs it. The therapy content is pre-configured based on the patient's specific condition and history, allowing the patient to access appropriate therapy at any moment without waiting for professional availability. This preliminary preparation enables extended therapy duration while maintaining personalized effectiveness.
2Ease of operation
If a health professional provides smoking cessation therapy, then the patient receives timely support, but the patient can only access the professional during limited outpatient service hours
Solution Approach 1:
The computer-based system serves as an intermediary that provides immediate access to therapy information whenever the patient needs it, eliminating waiting time for professional availability. The server communicates with the patient's electronic device to deliver pre-prepared personalized therapy content instantly, resolving the contradiction by improving accessibility while eliminating time loss through automated immediate delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The patient can independently access their personalized therapy information through their electronic device without needing to schedule or wait for professional appointments. The system enables self-service access to tailored therapy content at any time, improving ease of operation while eliminating waiting time for consultations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a behavior modification message is transmitted once a day, then the patient receives daily guidance, but the therapy cannot be finely tuned to the patient's hourly varying needs
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts therapy content based on the patient's current condition. When the patient inputs their current state through the electronic device, the server retrieves and transmits appropriate personalized therapy information that matches the patient's present needs. This dynamic adjustment enables high adaptability to hourly varying conditions while maintaining fast response speed through automated real-time delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback loops where the patient's input about their current condition triggers the server to select and transmit appropriate therapy information. This feedback mechanism ensures therapy is finely tuned to the patient's actual state at any given moment, achieving high adaptability while maintaining fast response through automated condition-based delivery.
4Reliability
If pharmacological therapy using varenicline is used, then the 3-month smoking cessation success rate is about 65%, but the one-year success rate drops to only about 35% due to psychological dependence
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines pharmacological therapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy and coaching in an integrated system. The server stores and delivers personalized therapy information that addresses both physical and psychological dependence components. This merging of multiple therapy approaches maintains high success rates over the long term by comprehensively addressing both medication needs and psychological support needs simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous personalized therapy information to the patient over extended periods, not just during initial treatment phases. The server maintains ready-to-deliver therapy content that addresses psychological dependence ongoingly, ensuring continuous useful action that sustains high success rates beyond the initial 3-month period and maintains long-term effectiveness.
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AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable computer medium stores instructions for a patient attempting to quit smoking. The instructions cause a computer to: obtain smoking cessation-related health-care history information of the patient updated by the patient attempting to quit smoking; determine, based on the smoking cessation-related health-care history information, a cognitive-behavioral therapy to be performed, to obtain patient's understanding information about smoking related to the cognitive-behavioral therapy; when a request timing comes, transmit to a patient-side electronic device a patient's understanding information request; receive, from the patient-side electronic device, the patient's understanding information about smoking; determine, by comparing the received patient's understanding information with predetermined correct response information about smoking, whether the patient has a correct patient's understanding about smoking; and when the patient's understanding about smoking is incorrect, transmit, to the patient-side electronic device, cognitive-behavioral therapy information based on the predetermined correct response information.