Method and system for stopping or modifying undesirable health-related behavior habits or maintaining desirable health-related behavior habits
First Claim
1. A method of providing perceptible information to a person to aid the person to alter an undesirable health-related habitual behavior or to maintain a desirable health-related behavior by following a customized regimen to commence on a day to be selected by the person, said method comprising the steps of:
- (A) collecting data from the person based on the person'"'"'s answers to a series of questions;
(B) utilizing said data in a computer to process said data and provide a series of specific customized behavioral change messages as part of a customized regimen to aid the person to alter the undesirable health-related behavior or maintain the desirable health-related behavior, said messages being provided in a daily sequence measured relative to said selected day;
(C) providing said customized messages in visually perceptible form to the person in sequence on a daily basis, each of said customized messages including respective numerical indicia representing the number of days from the selected day to the day of said customized message; and
(D) arranging said customized messages so that each is seen on the day associated therewith to deter the person from seeing more than a single day'"'"'s message at a time.
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Abstract
A system and method of use to help a person to stop or modify an adverse habitual health-related behavior, e.g., smoking, weight control, stress management, etc., by following a calculated regimen to commence on a day to be selected by the person. The system comprises a computer and a series of customized visually perceptible messages establishing a customized regimen to aid the person to stop or modify the adverse habitual health-related behavior. The computer is arranged to receive personal information about the person and which is relevant to the behavior and makes use of expert system software to provide the customized messages in response thereto. The customized messages are in the form of a daily sequence measured relative to day selected by the person for the regimen to begin. Each of the messages is arranged to be read by the person in sequence on a daily basis and includes respective numerical indicia representing the number of days from the selected day to the day of said message. The messages are provided to the person in various ways, e.g., delivered to the person on a daily basis by means of some electronic communication medium, such as the Internet, e-mail, facsimile, etc., where they are printed out by the person. Alternatively, the cards or sheets may be generated by the system and provided to the person in hard copy form. The messages produced by the system may be updated and modified based upon information provided to the system by the person. Moreover, messages may be provided by the system to a support person to aid the person wishing to change his/her health-related behavior.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of providing perceptible information to a person to aid the person to alter an undesirable health-related habitual behavior or to maintain a desirable health-related behavior by following a customized regimen to commence on a day to be selected by the person, said method comprising the steps of:
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(A) collecting data from the person based on the person'"'"'s answers to a series of questions; (B) utilizing said data in a computer to process said data and provide a series of specific customized behavioral change messages as part of a customized regimen to aid the person to alter the undesirable health-related behavior or maintain the desirable health-related behavior, said messages being provided in a daily sequence measured relative to said selected day; (C) providing said customized messages in visually perceptible form to the person in sequence on a daily basis, each of said customized messages including respective numerical indicia representing the number of days from the selected day to the day of said customized message; and (D) arranging said customized messages so that each is seen on the day associated therewith to deter the person from seeing more than a single day'"'"'s message at a time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23)
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- 15. The method of claim I wherein said customized messages are established based on the answers of the person to a series of questions prior to the start of the regimen, and wherein said method additionally comprises modifying some of the messages of the regimen during the regimen and based upon further information provided by the person.
- 24. A system to help a person to alter an undesirable habitual health-related behavior or to maintain a desirable health-related behavior by following a calculated regimen to commence on a day to be selected by the person, said system comprising a computer and a series of customized visually perceptible messages establishing a customized regimen to aid the person to alter the undesirable health-related behavior or to maintain the desirable health-related behavior, said computer being arranged for receipt of data collected from the person based on the person'"'"'s answers to a series of questions to process said data to provide said customized messages, said series of customized messages being in a daily sequence measured relative to said selected day, each of said messages being arranged to be visually perceived by the person in sequence on a daily basis and including respective numerical indicia representing the number of days from the selected day to the day of said message, each of said series of customized messages being arranged so that each is seen on the day associated therewith to deter the person from seeing more than a single day'"'"'s message at a time.
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