Quitty - a fun game to help stop smoking by Cognitive Bias Modification
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Author(s)
Jankees de Ridder
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Jankees de Ridder Family Practiotioner, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Abstract Quitty is a game, based on CMD and NLP. The game was tested in a small group of non-quitting smokers All smokers who played at least 5 days for 15 minutes were smoking less cigarettes after the first week
Cognitive Bias Modification is the new treatment tool for anxiety, depression and addiction.. It is based on the changing of automatic unconscious biases in thinking.
Alcohol Addiction
Addictions are seen as neurocognitive development disorders. Recent evidence showes that computerized training interventions with Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) can reverse some of the underlying processes. A replication study with alcoholic patients reported again, after treatment with CMD, at one year follow up alcohol avoidance behaviour and lower relaps rates. Older patients benefitted more than younger ones. In the first study of Wiers, 4 sessions of 15 minutes were used, in the study of Eberl 12 sessions, without much difference.
In a study to assess the optimum number of sessions 6 session seemed the average optimum
Smoking
Another study by Reinout Wiers showed that automatic approach tendencies are also present in smokers.
A trial to study the effect of CBM in non-quitting smokers was registered in 2014
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Presenter biography Jankees de Ridder is since 30 years a family practitioner who worked in Africa, Caribbean and The Netherlands. As a hypnotherapist he developed a fun computer game to assist the unconscious mind of people who want to stop smoking.
Jan Visser is an educational trainer and hypnotherapist, based in The Netherlands
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Source of funding: No funding source
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Declaration of interest: None
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