8A – Solving The Problem

My product idea is a type of wearable device to help people struggling with nicotine addiction break free from its grasp, but without supplementing it with the use of just more nicotine. The current solution for this problem is the nicotine patch, which helps users with withdrawal symptoms by supplementing their bodies with nicotine. This helps mainly for people trying to get off cigarettes, but my product also aims to try and get rid of nicotine addiction from new devices such as JUULs, without the use of nicotine. For my idea, the person would wear something, like a patch, but instead of nicotine being used to help fight nicotine addiction, a safe new chemical would be used to alleviate symptoms of withdrawal.

The solution for nicotine addiction shouldn't be introducing more nicotine in a different way than smoking, it should be with something different all together. I am proposing potentially a patch or a stylish bracelet that would work similar to nicotine patches in the sense that wearing one of these products would emit a safe chemical into your body that would help your body fight the withdrawal symptoms experience when you have an addiction and are actively trying to quit. My product would be marketed for that type of audience to major pharmacies such as CVS. I think this product would be successful in the target audience, but the biggest problem would be developing a safe chemical or substance that could be safely introduced to the body and actually help fight nicotine withdrawal. I think something like this is possible someday, and that pharmacies would love to sell something like this on their shelves.