Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Monoxide or CO is a poisonous gas that has no colour and no smell. It is one of
the products of combustion and is found in car exhaust fumes and in tobacco smoke.
COmpact™ Smokerlyzer
®
- Bridging the Gap
The COmpact™ Smokerlyzer
®
Breath Carbon Monoxide tester offers the opportunity for
health professionals with limited budgets to offer breath testing as part of their smoking
intervention.
Designed to complement Bedfont’s well established professional range, the inexpensive
COmpact™ Smokerlyzer
®
is an excellent way to further extend your quit smoking services
into areas such as midwifery, occupational health, schools and health visiting. It is also a
great way to increase referrals to your quit smoking clinics.
The COmpact™ Smokerlyzer
®
is a simple device that gives an indication of smoking
status through 7 level indicators, which are also used for the breath hold countdown.
The tester uses single-use disposable mouthpieces that address cross-infection risks.
Quit Smoking health professionals will still want to use the
advanced features of Bedfont’s existing Smokerlyzer
®
family of monitors. However, the COmpact™
Smokerlyzer
®
allows cost effective CO breath testing to
be made available to a much wider audience.
1. Jamrozik, Vessey, Fowler, Wald, Parker, Vunakis. (1984):
Controlled trial of three different antismoking interventions in General
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Journal, 1984; 288: 1499-1503
2. Jarvis, Belcher, Vesey, Hutchinson. (1986): Low Cost Carbon
Monoxide Monitors in Smoking Assessment. Thorax, 1986; 41:
Helping Smokers to Quit
The COmpact™ Smokerlyzer
®
can be used as an effective quit smoking aid. It allows the smoker to
determine their level of nicotine dependence and can be successfully used as a motivational tool
during the quit attempt. Clinical tests have proven that smokers are more successful at kicking the
habit if a breath carbon monoxide monitor is used in conjunction with their quit smoking programme.
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Bedfont have been recognised for 20 years as world leaders in the support of smoking cessation
programmes using breath CO monitors. The Smokerlyzer
®
range is clinically proven and has become
the benchmark used throughout the world by health professionals working in smoking cessation
programmes and research.
