wow, we know that visualization techniques help athletes peform better, but it helps stop smoking too!

and \o/ for us frogs! see, maybe poutine helps with brain power (???) =p

Scientists from Canada’s GRAP Occupational Psychology Clinic and the University of Quebec modified a three-dimensional video game to create a computer-generated virtual reality environment as part of an anti-smoking program.

could this be Second Life or OpenSim probably? (likely OpenSim since you can run it for free on your own box)

but how wild is that?

they had two groups – one that crushed cigarettes and the other that “grasped at balls” o_O

lol, apart from “grasping at balls” sounding dirty, doing that as part of a study might make me smoke more! (for sure would drive me to drink!) =D

so the butt crushers ended up with lower nicotine addiction, who would of thunk it?

the article here

photo credit: arcticpenguin