NS App Help

* Program Explanation

Follow and copy the facial expressions in each stage and make sure you concentrate on the images and the messages provided.
NeverSmoking relies on the natural and instinctual function of the human brain, which is facial expression recognition, to activates the mirror neurons.
Thus, we encourage you to play the program in a place where there is minimum distraction to the visual images and where it is not too loud.
The program itself does not have any sound effect in order to help the user concentrate on the visual expressions.

The urge of smoke signals that the smoking neurons have activated in the brain.
The best time to remove the smoking neurons is when the synaptic connection of these smoking neurons starts firing and the blood flow in the brain increase.
Until now, you perhaps didn’t have a choice but to tolerate when smoking urges appear. But now this powerful tool called NeverSmoking will help you to ultimately eradicate this smoking neuron in your brain.
From now on, just start NeverSmoking whenever you feel like smoking, press the button and follow the steps provided.

Choose your subjective level of smoking urge between the scales 1 to 10.
1~2 : Almost none
3~4 : Low
5~6 : Tolerable
7~8 : Somewhat hard to tolerate
9~10 : Impossible to tolerate
This smoking urge scale is going to be used as the statistical data to show how the user performs over time. The program also automatically analyze the user’s urge as a basis to run the program.

Smoking-neurons have activated and makes you crave cigarette. The inhibiting emotional information should be associated with the smoking-neurons.
As you mimic the disgusted faces, the brain automatically activates disgust affect through the mirror neurons and with the facial feedback, it reinforces the disgust affect.
From now on, the screen will automatically skip to the next slide. Please follow the messages in the screen in a sincere manner.

* Make a disgusted face
1. pinch the nose
2. lower the eyebrows
3. pull your upper lips up

Removal of the smoking-neurons in the brain begins using brain science.
Continue to follow and do as the facial expression icons on the screen. ( You can adjust the position and the size of the expression icons by dragging or clicking the icon.)
For maximum effect, you should follow the faces and the messages in the most sincere manner. The brain can never lie to itself.

* Keep disgusted face expression

After the smoking-neurons have been disconnected, user will go through an emotional relaxation stage.
Relax your face and breathe deeply and slowly through your chest.
The thoracic, along with your face, is a channel for emotions.
As you breathe deeply with your chest, make sure you press or put your hand on the body(chest) part of the number designated.

The false reward system from nicotine is now replaced with real reward system using brain science.
The genuine reward step will make the brain release genuine dopamine as you think of the real smiles, resting place and the people you like.

* Make and Keep smiling face
1. smiling eyes
2. pull up the corner of the lips

In the last step, you will check your body condition.
If the following symptoms appear, it means you have successfully followed the previous steps.
(When your emotion responds properly, the body will also respond accordingly)
Feel like vomiting,
Feel nauseous
Throat feels soar,
Stomach feels sick
If none of the symptoms above appear, this means that you have either not properly followed the facial expressions or was not deeply immersed.

You can see how your smoking urge changed over time through bar graphs and line graphs.
The level of smoking urge can be seen in today, final, timely, daily, weekly, monthly data.

When the user enters in the information, the program will automatically run in a mode based on the analysis of the user’s sensorial characteristics, type of smoking, period of smoking etc.