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        Abstract
        Quitty - a fun game to help stop smoking by Cognitive Bias Modification

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        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


        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


        Source of funding: No funding source

        Declaration of interest: None

         
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