Brit device used to help people quit smoking to be used in clinical study

Manufactured by second-generation family company, Bedfont® Scientific Ltd., the piCO™ Smokerlyzer® is a breath analysis medical device used to help people quit smoking.

It will be used in a clinical study at the Maastricht University to investigate whether or not a reward makes smoking cessation more effective.

The project, CATCH (Continuous Abstinence Through Corporate Healthcare), run by Prof. Dr. C. P. van Schayck and Dr. G. E. Nagelhout, will take several Dutch companies partaking in Smoking Cessation programmes, however only half of the subjects will receive gift certificates for their efforts.

The Smokerlyzer® range is a series of carbon monoxide (CO) monitors that measures the harmful amount of CO that is inhaled from smoking, which can show how much a patient has been smoking, giving smoking cessation advisors an idea on the level of dependency that the smoker has.