Breakthrough Product, Pocket CO, Now Available for Individual Quit Smoking Toolkits

Smokers can now affordably monitor their own breath carbon monoxide output with the Pocket CO. The motivational device will display a digital readout of carbon monoxide in parts per million.

Richland Center, WI (PRWEB) January 19, 2006 -- Pocket CO, the world’s smallest low level carbon monoxide instrument with a digital display is sold by Quantum Fields LLC at www.quantumfields.com. Pocket CO is manufactured in Newark, California at Transducer Technology Inc (TTI). Pocket CO weighs less than 1.5 ounces and detects 0 – 600 ppm (parts per million) of carbon monoxide.

Many smoking cessation programs use breath carbon monoxide monitoring as a motivational tool for their patients. These clinical cessation tools can run in the thousands of dollars and smokers have to make an office visit to have their breath monitored. “When they see the carbon monoxide levels improve, they are motivated. Wouldn’t it be great if they could monitor it themselves?” asks Maclay. The Pocket CO is priced at $129, which includes a 1 yr warranty.

An individual can blow directly into the Pocket CO or blow through a straw to measure the carbon monoxide on their breath. Because of its very small size (2.4x1.4x0.6 inches), it can be placed in a plastic bag and breath blown into the bag to allow for a reading not dependent on breath rate. The Pocket CO stores variables and will recall the maximum CO read on the breath.

Heavy smokers typically register 25+ ppm (parts per million) of carbon monoxide on their breath after smoking. “Working with a local cessation program, it can be very disturbing or motivating for patients to actually see a measured carbon monoxide amount on a digital display. Some patients want to stay and see if the carbon monoxide will dissipate over time. With this monitor smokers now have a tool that they can use to monitor themselves,” states Maclay. Smoking cessation motivation on a keychain is now available with Pocket CO.

Inventor and manufacturer, Dr. Joseph Stetter is the President of Transducer Technology Inc and a researcher with over 30 years of sensor development. He is active in the nanotechnology field. His expertise has produced a superior low level carbon monoxide detector. www.transducertech.com

Maclay is an entrepreneur, senior software engineer, and part time IT associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin - Richland. She is CEO of Quantum Fields LLC, a contract research and development company in rural SW Wisconsin. She has a BSCS from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an MBA candidate 2006 at Viterbo University in La Crosse Wisconsin.

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