Key features Your body and mind will start to dislike the taste and smell of tobacco Our motivational coaching helps you change habits and stay smokefree for good Reduce stress levels and master mindfulness to better handle waves of craving.At the moment, Sick of Smoking is free to use in return we will ask you for feedback afterwards in order for us to understand our impact and your progress. Sign up at https://sickofsmoking.appHealth and SafetyWe want you to feel sick of smoking. This will help you quit easier. By combining tobacco consumption with mild nausea your brain will associate the discomfort with the taste of tobacco. In other words, by making you slightly dizzy while you smoke, you will build an aversion to the taste of tobacco.The nausea is induced by spinning the room in VR. If you are sensitive to motion sickness, be mindful and pause the spinning at the first sign of nausea/sickness.This game might make you fall over make sure to clear the play area before you start. If you are pregnant it is even more important that you do not fall. Only go for the coaching and relaxation parts.Before doing one of the aversion sessions in the program we recommend not to eat anything that is a new taste to you. That is because we do not want your brain to associate the aversion we trigger in this program to any other taste than tobacco.There are no guarantees that you will become free from tobacco although we are happy to say that we have a pretty decent success rate.
We’re a startup looking for feedback on this beta software. The idea is to vape/smoke/snus during short ‘aversion’ sessions in VR, and then quitting (for most people) happens automatically (the tobacco suddenly tastes/smells terrible).
There’s also some coaching and anxiety exercises.
It’s our 1.0, so if you have any feedback please let us know!
Although that’s a good point, if you don’t smoke/snus/vape, then don’t do the aversion treatment part. It might accidentally cause you to get a life-time aversion to something you ate in the 6 hour window before doing the session.
Although I have to say it’s pretty funny trying to walk around after taking the pills, feels like being hammered drunk.
Although in Clockwork Orange they used apomorphine which was the thing in the '50s/60s:
A fourteen-year-old boy was said by his parents to have started smoking at the age of seven, and to be spending every penny of his pocket money on cigarettes.
He had at one time regularly smoked 40 cigarettes per day, but was now averaging about half that number because his pocket money had been reduced. He said he wanted to give up smoking because he had a smoker’s cough, was breathless on exertion, and because it was costing so much money.
On the first occasion he was given an injection of apomorphine 1/20 g, started smoking, he became nauseated and vomited copiously.
Four days later he came for the second treatment, and said that he still had the craving for cigarettes, but had not in fact smoked since the previous session because he felt nauseated when he tried to light one. He was given an injection of apomorphine 1/20 g, and after seven minutes he lit a cigarette reluctantly, and immediately said he felt ill. He was encouraged to continue smoking, and he collapsed.
When he next attended he said he no longer had any craving for cigarettes, “Just smoke from my father’s cigarette makes me feel ill”.
Two months Iater he left school and started working. He said he had “got a bit down” at work and wanted to “keep in with the others”, so he had accepted a proffered cigarette. He immediately felt faint and hot, and was unable to smoke. It is now a year since his treatment, and his parents confirm that he no longer smokes.
Stern G. (1957). A case of excessive smoking. London Hospital GazeNe, 1957. p. 144–145.
I think it’s more likely that you’ll train people to associate nausea with their vr headset and spoil any enjoyment they get from their headset.
It doesn’t work like that. The effect is called the ‘Garcia’ effect and it’s completely tied to smell and taste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion
Although that’s a good point, if you don’t smoke/snus/vape, then don’t do the aversion treatment part. It might accidentally cause you to get a life-time aversion to something you ate in the 6 hour window before doing the session.
Although I have to say it’s pretty funny trying to walk around after taking the pills, feels like being hammered drunk.
Like Beethovens 9th for example.
Boom! We get that a lot.
Although in Clockwork Orange they used apomorphine which was the thing in the '50s/60s:
Stern G. (1957). A case of excessive smoking. London Hospital GazeNe, 1957. p. 144–145.
You should advertise your treatment against reddit addiction.