Monitoring Device for Human Smoking Behavior: Acquisition of Real World Deep Inhalation Puffing.

Acquisition of real human smoking behavior is necessary to fully understand the health impacts of various nicotine delivery systems offered by the tobacco companies. This project involves the development and delivery of a prototype system which can acquire and store real human inhalation behavior during a smoking event. Furthermore, existing proprietary devices are not able to collect the deep inhalation puff, the clean air a smoker may draw in following a typical puff on a cigarette. The delivered prototype will be able to capture the draw on the cigarette and the deep inhalation puff.

The customer and project sponsor require a well documented understanding of the phenomena involved from a physics and engineering viewpoint. Benchmarking sources include patent literature, existing commercial devices (the CReSS device), and relevant published articles.

A feasibility proposal to manufacture 50-500 units capable of acquiring and recording the smoking puff in addition to the deep inhalation puff is also needed.

Project Name

Monitoring Device for Human Smoking Behavior

Project Number

P10054

Project Family

Bioengineering

Track

Biomedical Systems and Technologies

Start Term

2009-1

End Term

2009-2

Faculty Guide

Ed Hanzlik (ME)

Technical Support Advisor

Mr. Ed Hanzlik (ME)

Primary Customer

Dr. Risa Robinson, American Cancer Society