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Juul has applied for a patent regarding a device, tangibly powered by coining intelligence, that the company says could help users requite up nicotine by restricting daily depletion and gradually weaning them off the product. The e-cigarette company applied for the patent last summer, and the appositeness was recurrently made public, according to The Logic.

The patent application describes a dingbat that would work "in communication" with a aerosol (used to vape nicotine) and would recurring nicotine and a similar, non-nicotine product, such as citric acid, to gradually reduce the user's nicotine intake. Co-ordinate to the application, a "controller may manage utensil acquirements to rummage freighting of nicotine and/or non-nicotine vaporizable material" based on the users' beliefs (using a "plurality of puffs"). That beliefs "may be learned through monitoring the aerosol use and beliefs of the user," the appositeness states.

So by training your aerosol to learn how generally and how parous you vape nicotine, Juul's proposed dingbat -- which could be consanguine to a smartphone, co-ordinate to the patent appositeness -- would determine how and back to acting the non-nicotine artefact to tenderize you off the addictive chemical.

Juul has been beneath criticism for the way its merchantry appears to target teenagers

This is an idea Juul has been maritime for a while: James Monsees, Juul's co-founder and latrine artefact officer, told TechCrunch in 2018 that the company was planning a smartphone-connected dingbat that would accredit users and help them requite up if they capital to. "There will be a utensil acquirements algorithm that's going to smooth that out for you, so that you don't even really kumtux to think barely it you request it. Except we make it as forthcoming for you as possible," Monsees said at the time.

While it may seem counterintuitive for an e-cigarette company to help users requite up vaping nicotine, Juul has been beneath open-eyed criticism for how its articles may kumtux unindemnified to a speed in adolescence vaping. It's also been the target of parous investigations and precedented actions over its merchantry and the company's claims that its articles are designed in part to help persons requite up smoking.

In November, New York embark it was suing the company for deluding advertising. The lawsuit says the company downplayed health risks and acclimated deluding agitprop that "significantly unindemnified to the public health danger that has larboard adolescence in New York and boiled the country dingdong to its products," New York Exponent General Letitia James said at the time. North Carolina and California kumtux also sued the company over its agitprop practices, and the Federal Trade Factor is investigating Juul over its use of influencers in a merchantry pilot.

Earlier this year, the Food and Biologic Bosses (FDA) announced it would refitting companies to schlep flavored e-cigarette cartridges -- mainly favored by teenagers-- from the market.