The relationship of videogames to personal health is becoming a very hot topic right now in the mainstream news media, what with Wii Fit selling out at stores everywhere and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation handing out $200,000 grants in order to fund research into how gaming affects health. On Wednesday UbiSoft announced a very interesting foray into this untapped and potentially lucrative market. Titled Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking, the DS title represents the first retail game billing itself as an effective tool for helping users kick the nicotine habit through the well-known Carr Method.
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Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels of Nintendo's 7974.0S smash success, "Wii Fit," game makers are introducing new titles with a healthy focus, such as French game publisher Ubisoft's "Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking" that hits on Nintendo DS in November.
Over 10 million smokers worldwide have turned to Allen Carr's Easyway books, clinics or DVD in order to stop smoking but now smokers wanting to quit can instead play 14 mini-games.
The games, designed by Ubisoft's (UBIP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) Quebec studio and Allen Carr's team, focus on why people smoke rather than why they shouldn't.
hey man, my playstation helped me quit. <-------truth.
it also kept me away from drugs(and stop them)<---------also true
I hope thers more reasons like this that shows video games can be good. My mom always tells me video games are bad for your eyes. That's why I can't buy a psp. :(
the only reason video games would be bad for your eyes is if:
1. your sitting to close to the tv
2. you play non stop with out taking a break and not blinking your eyes.
3. you play the psp with out good lighting or with no light.
i suggest if you get the psp buy a light for it cause it will ruin your eyes if you play it with out a light.
Thanks for the advice but I don't do any of those things. I always play in the noon time with bright lighting and I rarely play over 30 minutes.
You just got off your drug addiction. Now you have another addiction to worry about.
Question is, how you gonna get off that one?
Ubisoft wants you to trade in your smokes for a stylus in its unconventional new game designed to help break the habit of cigarette smoking. Part of the publisher's casual 'Games for Everyone' line, Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking attempts to marry serious content with simple gameplay.
yo my playstation helped me quit. somkeing may be great at first but its really really bad for you even though it dosnt seem like it. try blowing the smoke through a napkin or tissue, it looks real nasty and thats what it does to your lungs. im so happy i quit. please QUIT b4 its too late.
Ubisoft's smoking cessation game for the DS system did not escape the notice of the Penny Arcade crew.
thts ridiculous! lol