METHOD FOR TOBACCO SMOKING CESSATION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to health protection, to methods for tobacco smoking and addiction cessation. A tobacco product is smoked until observing a smoking satiety sensation and a period of temporary tobacco independence. Two- to three-week stages follow with using cigarettes having a certain quantity of the equally spaced holes of the diameter of 0.7-1.0 mm formed around the filter border. At the initial stage, 2-3 holes are formed, and at the each following stage, the quantity of the holes increases by 2-3, but no more than 12. The number of the above stages is specified as soon as a sensation of smoking addition disappears. The each following stage distanced from the initial stage may be considered either as an intermediate stage, or as a final one which can end on any day tobacco smoking cessation.

EFFECT: providing higher effectiveness of tobacco smoking cessation ensured by a gradual decrease of smoker's nicotine requirement by reducing smoking pleasure and taste.

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