Clarkson to develop device to help smoking cessation

POTSDAM — Clarkson University was awarded $198,525 to develop a device to help people quit smoking.

The university and SUNY Buffalo will work together to create a noninvasive monitoring system to track cigarette smoking. The device will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of other smoking-cessation programs with the goal of improving outcomes, project director and Clarkson professor Eduard S. Sazonov said in a statement.

Engineering and design will take place at Clarkson and human testing will be at SUNY Buffalo.

The grant money was secured with the help of Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh.