Medical research has proven over and over again that sucking is soothing.

History: The Life Sucker™ and the Suckcess Method© were both designed with the help of doctors, educators, dentists, psychologists, and engineers who want you to have a healthy oral substitute for a cigarette or for too much food. The Life Sucker™ was designed to help you stop smoking and/or to help you not gain weight. Medical research proves that pacifiers are soothing oral substitutes.

Life Suckcess, LLC, presents "the answer you've been waiting for"--the Life Sucker™--an adult pacifier to help you stop stressing, to help you stop overeating, and/or to help you stop smoking or chewing.

Instead of grabbing a beer, a cigarette, chew, or screaming at someone you love, suck on the Life Sucker™. Medical research proves that sucking is soothing.

The Life Sucker™ is used as an aid in lessening stress and curbing overeating, and it is used as a device in smoking cessation. It is designed as an adult pacifier, allowing sucking, holding something in the mouth, holding something in the hand, the ceremonial hand-to-mouth process, and gastric stimulation. Studies on newborns show that "stimulation with the pacifier significantly reduced crying" ( "The Effects of a Pacifying Stimulus," Gunnar et al., 1984). According to another study on newborns, "Crying and heat rate declined more rapidly in the pacifier condition than in swaddling," (Campos, 1989). Doctors also found that pacifiers that had been flavored with sucrose were even more effective in calming babies: "Specifically, control infants who underwent a standard circumcision procedure without intervention cried 67% of the time. Crying was reduced further by providing infants with a sucrose-flavored pacifier to suck," (Blass et al., 1991). Sucking on an unflavored pacifier is antinociceptive to infants, and this antinociception is enhanced by sucrose.

Studies on pacification have been restricted to the newborn period and have neglected to address the effectiveness of pacification at older ages. For an adult in our society, thumbsucking is a deconditioned activity. Sucking on a cigarette is a disdained activity but is allowed. People who smoke, however, develop the habitual need to suck. People who overeat develop the need to stimulate gastric responses.

One theory as to why people smoke is that they were weaned too early, that they were not allowed a long enough period to suck, suggesting the continued need for humans to suck. A straw or an artificial cigarette or food gives a smoker or an overeater an object on which to suck but does not activate the same stimulation of chemical responses as the placement of a pacifier in the mouth.

The Life Sucker™ fulfills the need of adults to suck, and, because of its shape, the flavor, the size and the placement in the mouth of the Life Sucker™, it fulfills certains chemical responses similar to those created by a cigarette or by food. This adult pacifier allows smokers to suck on a flavored or unflavored resilient pacifier in place of a cigarette or food, thus stimulating salivation, gastric acid secretion, and the cranial nerve endings of the tongue.