138 results about "Smoke tobacco" patented technology

A Bluetooth v4.0-based intelligent electronic cigarette is provided with a casing including an atomizer, a controller, and a battery. The controller includes a software and hardware assembly having an MCU, and a Bluetooth-based board having a Bluetooth v4.0 module connected to the MCU, the Bluetooth v4.0 module being capable of transmitting data processed by the MCU, and receiving data and transmitting same to the MCU. The battery is electrically connected to the MCU. The Bluetooth v4.0 module is employed to implement a two-direction communication between the electronic cigarette and a mobile app, thereby enabling a user to control his / her simulated tobacco smoking by monitoring what is shown on the mobile app.

A tobacco smoking device comprises a porous mass of active particles adapted to enhance a tobacco smoke flowing over said active particles and binder particles. The active particles comprises about 1-99% weight of the porous mass, and the binder particles comprises about 1-99% weight of said porous mass. The active particles and said binder particles are bound together at randomly distributed points throughout the porous mass. The active particles have a greater particle size than the binder particles.

An intraoral aversion device to assist a user in quitting an undesirable behavior such as tobacco smoking, tobacco chewing, use of snuff, illicit drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, excessive food consumption, and / or other undesirable activity facilitated via the mouth. The aversion device may be wholly or partially configured to be disposed in the user's mouth, for example. The aversion device may include a detector and a output device, wherein the detector is configured to detect a parameter indicative of the user engaging in the habit or undesirable activity. If (and only if) the detector detects such a parameter, the output device delivers a negative stimulus to the user, thus providing negative feedback and creating an incentive for the user to limit if not eliminate the undesirable activity.

A nicotine method and solution which utilizes an acidic solution containing nicotine. The solution is for use to treat various medical conditions, such as to reduce the need of a user of smoking tobacco to smoke tobacco, to reduce attention deficit disorder symptoms in a person who has attention deficit disorder, and / or to reduce Alzheimer's disease symptoms in a person who has Alzheimer's disease. The solution is palatable and may be introduced into the person by the person drinking it. Subsequent to drinking, the blood plasma levels are sufficient to reduce the need to smoke tobacco, to reduce attention deficit disorder symptoms, and / or to reduce Alzheimer's disease symptoms.

An intraoral aversion device to assist a user in quitting an undesirable behavior such as tobacco smoking, tobacco chewing, use of snuff, illicit drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, excessive food consumption, and / or other undesirable activity facilitated via the mouth. The aversion device may be wholly or partially configured to be disposed in the user's mouth, for example. The aversion device may include a detector and a output device, wherein the detector is configured to detect a parameter indicative of the user engaging in the habit or undesirable activity. If (and only if) the detector detects such a parameter, the output device delivers a negative stimulus to the user, thus providing negative feedback and creating an incentive for the user to limit if not eliminate the undesirable activity.

Human and mammalian skin undergoes a variety of changes associated with chronological aging. Various environmental factors, disease states and genetic disorders may accelerate both the appearance of aging skin and also the structural and functional changes associated with aging skin. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is one of the classic known and well-defined means of accelerating or worsening the aging of the skin and this is frequently termed photoaging. Other environmental factors, such as oxidative stress, free radicals, environmental toxins such as ozone and cultural customs or habits such as tobacco smoking are other known probe accelerators in photo aging skin. A wide variety of other factors known and unknown contribute to accelerated or premature aging of the skin. This invention discusses methods where electromagnetic radiation, in particular, light, can be used to photobiomodulate the activity of living cells to delay, diminish, retard or even reverse the structural and functional effects of aging of the skin and other living cells and tissues. In particular methods described for improving the appearance, structure, function of aging skin, including up and down regulating the genotypic markers for the phenotype of aging skin.

A smoking pipe of Middle Eastern / South Asian mechanical design, which is used to smoke tobacco and other substances while utilizing liquid, such as water, for purifying the smoke, made novel by the use of a coupler that allows the smoking pipe to be compatible with a multitude of standard, consumer bottle types, such as soda bottles or liquor bottles, as the liquid reservoir, which increases the versatility and transportability of the smoking apparatus.

The present invention relates to a Hookah otherwise known as a water pipe or Nargile. The hookah is used to smoke tobacco or other herbs that are heated using a hot charcoal. With multiple tobacco bowls, this hookah allows the user to consume a mixture of smoke from different flavored tobaccos. The various bowls are independent from each other and spaced apart so that the heat from one does not affect the others. The spacing of the bowls also protects the user from burn injuries while replacing the tobacco or charcoal in each bowl. The smoke from each bowl is directed into a stem tube where it is mixed before being filtered and cooled by water in preparation for consumption. Each tobacco bowl can be connected to a flow control device that allows the user to fine tune the amount of smoke from each bowl and achieve the preferred flavor.

A device which facilitates the absorption of nicotine in order to reduce the incidence of tobacco smoking is disclosed. The device includes a tube defining an interior space. The tube has a first end with an opening and a second end. An inhalable, flowable liquid or gel composition is disposed in the interior space of the tube. The composition may include water, at least one vitamin, a flavoring agent, and nicotine. The flavoring agent may include an intense sweetener such as sucralose, and a natural or artificial fruit flavor. A user inhales on the first end of the tube of the device as a substitute oral activity to tobacco smoking and thereby ingests a source of nicotine that reduces the withdrawal symptoms experienced when smoking is stopped.

A tobacco smoking device comprises a porous mass of active particles adapted to enhance a tobacco smoke flowing over said active particles and binder particles. The active particles comprises about 1-99% weight of the porous mass, and the binder particles comprises about 1-99% weight of said porous mass. The active particles and said binder particles are bound together at randomly distributed points throughout the porous mass. The active particles have a greater particle size than the binder particles.

An intraoral behavior monitoring and aversion device to assist a user in quitting an undesirable behavior such as tobacco smoking, tobacco chewing, use of snuff, illicit drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, excessive food consumption, and / or other undesirable activity facilitated via the mouth. The aversion device may be wholly or partially configured to be disposed in the user's mouth, for example. The aversion device may include a detector and a output device, wherein the detector is configured to detect a parameter indicative of the user engaging in the habit or undesirable activity. If (and only if) the detector detects such a parameter, the output device may, optionally, deliver a negative stimulus to the user, thus providing negative feedback and creating an incentive for the user to limit if not eliminate the undesirable activity. The device may be configured to store and / or relay data representing sensed conditions in the mouth.

The invention belongs to the field of tobacco processing, in particular to a processing method for improving cut stem quality. The processing method for improving the cut stem quality is characterized in that tobacco stems and stem pieces are extracted by using an alcoholic solution, and then the alcoholic solution is added back into the produced cut stems made from the tobacco stems or the stem pieces. Compared with the prior art, the processing method for improving the cut stem quality has the advantages that substances with active functions on tobacco smoking smell such as sugar, nicotine, pigment ingredients and the like of the tobacco stems are extracted by using the alcoholic solution and are added back into the cut stems later, compounds harmful to the tobacco smoking smell such as macromolecules (like pectin, protein and the like) in the tobacco stems are removed by combining water washing with acidolysis and enzymolysis, and therefore improvement of sensory quality of the cut stems is achieved, and smoke panel tests demonstrate that the cut stems prepared have the advantages that the offensive odors are reduced, the irritation is lowered, and the flavor remaining smell is improved.

The invention provides a novel electronic cigarette smoking set. The smoking set is provided with a cigarette cavity chamber, a smoke generating chamber, a power supply unit and a control unit. The novel electronic cigarette smoking set can be structurally rod-type and can be also box-type. The cigarette generating chamber is provided with an atomization element capable of making an electronic cigarette smoke-generating material produce smoke. A heating element is arranged in the cigarette cavity chamber and can heat various types of low-temperature incombustible cigarettes inserted into the chamber, and accordingly tobacco smoking experience is provided for a user. The novel electronic cigarette smoking set can make a user experience the feeling of conventional liquid electronic cigarettes in the non-heating state of the cigarette cavity chamber.

A kit to alleviate tobacco-smoking withdrawal symptoms in a patient is disclosed which comprises:(a) a therapeutically effective amount of nicotine, at least one active nicotine metabolite, a combination of nicotine and an active nicotine metabolite, or an azapirone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof;(b) a transdermal delivery system consisting essentially of a bupropion base in a therapeutically effective amount; and(c) a packaging material surrounding (a) and (b).

Human and mammalian skin undergoes a variety of changes associated with chronological aging. Various environmental factors, disease states and genetic disorders may accelerate both the appearance of aging skin and also the structural and functional changes associated with aging skin. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is one of the classic known and well-defined means of accelerating or worsening the aging of the skin and this is frequently termed photoaging. Other environmental factors, such as oxidative stress, free radicals, environmental toxins such as ozone and cultural customs or habits such as tobacco smoking are other known probe accelerators in photo aging skin. A wide variety of other factors known and unknown contribute to accelerated or premature aging of the skin. This invention discusses methods where electromagnetic radiation, in particular, light, can be used to photobiomodulate the activity of living cells to delay, diminish, retard or even reverse the structural and functional effects of aging of the skin and other living cells and tissues. In particular methods described for improving the appearance, structure, function of aging skin, including up and down regulating the genotypic markers for the phenotype of aging skin.

The invention discloses a tobacco heating device with a smoking amount prompting function. A user can be informed of smoking conditions of tobacco conveniently by arranging a tobacco smoking condition detecting mechanism and a prompting mechanism in the tobacco heating device. The tobacco heating device with the smoking amount prompting function comprises a smoking nozzle, a heating module, a battery power supply model, an outer shell, a first detecting module, a second detecting module, a control module and a prompting module, wherein the first detecting module is arranged in a smoke channel of the tobacco heating device with the smoking amount prompting function, is connected with the control module and is used for detecting times of smoking, the second detecting module is arranged in the smoke channel of the tobacco heating device with the smoking amount prompting function, is connected with the control module and is used for detecting the concentration of smoke, the control module receives detection information from the first detecting module and detection information from the second detecting module and is used for obtaining smoking data of the tobacco, and the prompting module is connected with the control module and is used for giving out prompts according to the smoking data.

Human and mammalian skin undergoes a variety of changes associated with chronological aging. Various environmental factors, disease states and genetic disorders may accelerate both the appearance of aging skin and also the structural and functional changes associated with aging skin. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is one of the classic known and well-defined means of accelerating or worsening the aging of the skin and this is frequently termed photoaging. Other environmental factors, such as oxidative stress, free radicals, environmental toxins such as ozone and cultural customs or habits such as tobacco smoking are other known probe accelerators in photo aging skin. A wide variety of other factors known and unknown contribute to accelerated or premature aging of the skin. This invention discusses methods where electromagnetic radiation, in particular, light, can be used to photobiomodulate the activity of living cells to delay, diminish, retard or even reverse the structural and functional effects of aging of the skin and other living cells and tissues. In particular methods described for improving the appearance, structure, function of aging skin, including up and down regulating the genotypic markers for the phenotype of aging skin.

The invention provides an enzyme preparation and a method for improving foreign flavor of tobacco leaves and fragrance by utilizing the enzyme preparation in a tobacco primary processing process. Through treatment of the enzyme preparation, macromolecular compounds harmful to tobacco smoking quality can be remarkably degraded, so that the effects of improving the foreign flavor of the tobacco leaves and the fragrance are achieved.

The invention comprises an improved tobacco smoking pipe such that the pipe may be used to smoke liquid tobacco. The pipe consists of an inner tube that has an open end and a closed end with an intake disposed there between that communicates with the open end. A connecting element secures an outer tube and allows the closed end of the inner tube to slidably retract and extend within said outer tube. The improvement of the invention which allows liquid to be smoked in the pipe is the addition of a retaining element extending from the closed end of the inner tube.

The invention provides an electric heating smoking device and a tobacco heating structure of the electric heating smoking device. The tobacco heating structure comprises a power supply component, a heating cavity and a heater and tobacco which are arranged in the heating cavity, wherein the heating cavity is provided with an opening in one end; the heater is electrically connected with the power supply component; the opening of the heating cavity is closed by a filter which can output smoke gas; an air passage is formed on the heating cavity. The electric heating smoking device comprises a smoking nozzle and the tobacco heating structure, wherein the heating cavity is located in the smoking nozzle. When in use, the heating cavity is connected with the smoking nozzle, then a user can smoke tobacco; when changed, the heating cavity can be separated from the smoking nozzle, and then the heating cavity of the new tobacco heating structure is connected with the smoking nozzle. In this way, the tobacco heating structure can be changed integrally, so that the electric heating smoking device is convenient to use.

The invention discloses a device and a method for simulating the oral dissolution of a buccal no-smoke tobacco product. The device is characterized by comprising a thermostable waterbath box, a double-channel peristaltic pump, a collecting bottle, and an artificial saliva container and an artificial oral cavity device which are both arranged in the thermostable waterbath box, wherein a dissolution vessel which is used for putting the buccal no-smoke tobacco product and can hold liquid is arranged in the artificial oral cavity device; a first pipeline and a second pipeline are respectively arranged on the double-channel peristaltic pump, an inlet of the first pipeline is positioned in the artificial saliva container, and an outlet of the first pipeline is positioned in the artificial oral cavity device and above the dissolution vessel. The dissolution device is simple in structure and low in cost, can ensure that both the upper surface and the lower surface of the buccal no-smoke tobacco product can be in contact with artificial saliva when the inhaling of the buccal no-smoke tobacco product is simulated, and can also ensure that the simulating inhaling temperature environment of the buccal no-smoke tobacco product is the constant-temperature environment of the oral cavity of the human body. The device is suitable for popularization and use.

The invention discloses a smoking device for electrically heating tobacco. The smoking device comprises a cigarette body which is electrically heated and smoked, wherein a heating cavity and a tobacco combustion chamber are arranged in the cigarette body; tobacco is arranged in the tobacco combustion chamber; a cigarette holder is arranged at the head of the cigarette body; at least two containing cavities are formed inside the cigarette holder; a part of split water and evaporated water produced during electric heating are absorbed into the containing cavities; when tobacco is heated, an assisting piece for assisting the smoking of smoke fog is inserted into the cigarette holder; and a whole cigarette is inserted into a segmental heating device, so that segmental heating is realized. The smoking device is simple in structure, can help a user to smoke tobacco when tobacco is heated and burnt, solves the problems that the split water or the evaporated water blocks the cigarette holder during electric heating, so that the problem that the tobacco in the heating state cannot be smoked, achieves the purpose that the cigarette can uniformly emit smoke through accurate segmental heating on the cigarette, keeps the maximum fragrance, avoids a cigarette filter tip and achieves smoking of tobacco lysate.

The invention features a method for inhibiting or reducing the deleterious effects of tobacco smoking including increased incidence of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, various lung disorders and the oxidative effects. The method includes the incorporation of an effective amount of a compound or a standardized plant extract that is that comprises an inhibitor of NF-κB into tobacco or a tobacco product. In particular, it relates to useful NF-κB inhibitor diterpenes and compositions containing them for incorporation into tobacco or a tobacco product.

This invention relates to the application of crude plant extract in tobacco manufacture, using extract of offorange as free radical scavenger in tobacco smoking. The added material could be extract in mixed state of multi-component, and could also be one kind of separated extract or mixture of more than one kind. The tobacco could be cigarette, and could also be cigar or cut tobacco for tobacco pipe. If cigarette, the extract of offorange could be added into the cut tobacco or the filter tip. If the extract is added into the cut tobacco of cigarette, the process could be accomplished during cut tobacco throwing. The extract added into the cut tobacco takes a share of 0.02 to 0.06 percent in the weight of the cut tobacco. The invention has developed a new health care purpose for offorange, and opened up a new application domain. As free radical scavenger, the extract of offorange has obvious effect, and has good application prospects in developing safety tobacco of low toxicity and low free radical.

This invention relates to cigarettes and tobacco smoking devices. The invention allows for the smoker to encapsulate a cigarette in a reusable holder that prevents fire and burns. The reusable holder traps hot ashes, is safe to handle and is ergonomic in design. The cigarette holder can be dropped without starting fire or causing burns. The cigarette holder can have outer shell produced of different materials. The cigarette holder can be used in bad weather.

The invention discloses a tobacco field soil improvement method for effectively improving the quality of tobacco leaves. The tobacco field soil improvement method comprises the following steps: 1) selection of areas; 2) selection of tobacco fields; 3) ridges and ponds; 4) base fertilizer application ; 5) Farmyard manure mixing pond; 6) Top dressing application. The present invention treats the soil of the tobacco field through farmyard manure mixing ponds, and the chemical components of the obtained tobacco leaves are more coordinated, the tobacco leaf smoking evaluation score is as high as 82.5 or more, the aroma is more prominent, the concentration is higher, and the strength is stronger, and it can be used as a method for improving sticky soil. An effective way, while the total fertilization rate of the improved soil of the present invention is 90% of the conventional fertilization rate, which effectively reduces the fertilization rate and reduces the cost.

This invention relates to the application of crude plant extract in tobacco manufacture, using extract of bamboo leaf as free radical scavenger in tobacco smoking. The added material could be extract in mixed state of multi-component, and could also be one kind of separated extract or mixture of more than one kind. The tobacco could be cigarette, and could also be cigar or cut tobacco for tobacco pipe. If cigarette, the extract of bamboo leaf could be added into the cut tobacco or the filter tip. If the extract is added into the cut tobacco of cigarette, the process could be accomplished during cut tobacco throwing. The extract added into the cut tobacco takes a share of 0.02 to 0.06 percent in the weight of the cut tobacco. The invention has developed a new health care purpose for bamboo leaf, and opened up a new application domain. As free radical scavenger, the extract of bamboo leaf has obvious effect, and has good application prospects in developing safety tobacco of low toxicity and low free radical.