Friday, November 20, 2009

In Canada, with smokers struggling through computer games

An American study provides information about the fact that each year about 45% of smokers try to quit smoking. In this attempt and are trying. Scientists constantly searching for a way to help smokers get rid of the habit.

One of the latest offers ways to try to quit smoking with the help of a computer game, which is built on the principle of the simulator is helping to train skills to get rid of their bad habit.

The game was tested in the experiment, which attracted 91 smokers with the experience. It lasted 12 weeks of the experiment. The first group of smokers of 46 people involved in that on the computer screen virtual extinguished cigarettes virtual hand. The second group (respectively 45) on the computer screen engaged in catching balls. Experimental results are very indicative: in the first group by the end of the experiment of cigarettes declined to 15% in the second group, their number was equal to only 2%.

Six months after the experiment was completed in the first group of quit rates reached 39%, while the second only 20%. Scientists predict the success of this method, hoping that the disks with nicotine game will be freely available.

Recall that, according to American scientists, smokers shift to lighter cigarettes contain less tar and nicotine, leading to what is to stop smoking it will be much harder. Another study proved that light cigarettes do not differ from the ordinary to the degree of influence on the organism of a smoker.