This document proposes three ways to creatively reframe chewing gum as a dietary aid to help people lose weight: 1) Package and promote gum as reducing the urge to eat by keeping people chewing; 2) Develop gum that delivers a weight-loss drug similar to nicotine gum; 3) Create gum that changes color the longer it is chewed and link an app to let people earn points redeemable as rewards for longer chewing sessions and less eating.
2. Creatively reframed the way we think
of chewing gum?
? Package and promote gum as a dietary aid. If
you are chewing gum you are less prone to
eat.
? Use gum as a delivery system for a weight-loss
drug.
? Use gum as a positive reinforcement vehicle
3. Package and promote gum as a dietary aid. If
you are chewing gum you are less prone to eat
? Take a popular brand of gum and do a line
extension where you package and promote
gum as a dietary aid.
4. Use gum as a delivery system for a
weight-loss drug.
? Work with the newly approved weight-loss
drug Belviq? to integrate the approved
molecule into the gums formulation.
? This would be very similar to nicotine-gum
launch
5. Use gum as a positive reinforcement
vehicle
? During the formulation, the gum will change
colors the more it is chewed.
? The range of colors will correspond to the
length of time chewed (aka not eating)
? Ipod app would let you snap a picture of the
color and earn points for different shades.
? User could then redeem their points as a form
of positive reinforcement.