Rachman Uses Pavlok Alarm to Wake Up on Time

 

“Early to bed, and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

Rachman used the Pavlok alarm to condition himself to wake up early and get his day started.

With everything available at our fingertips 24/7, it is increasingly becoming harder and harder to put the electronics down and put ourselves to bed at night.  Studies have shown that electronic devices that emit a blue blacklight actually disrupt the part of the brain that releases melatonin, a sleep regulating hormone.  But it can be hard to pull away from blue blacklight close enough to bed time or get enough sleep.  And though hitting snooze always seems like a great idea when waking up tired, most tend to be even more tired after finally waking up.

Meet Rachman, who broke his snooze addiction using Pavlok. 

Rachman will be the first to admit he’s not a morning person.  Waking up early is nearly impossible because he stays up late most evenings.  Usually, when he tried to wake up early, he hits the snooze button and goes back to sleep.  But on the rare occasion when he would get up early, he’d get more done than ever.

The things Rachman has tried are hilarious, and his ability to sleep in the most random places are a real testimony to his commitment to want to sleep in later!  He’s tried to make himself just roll out of bed, literally on to the floor instead of hitting snooze.  But that backfired.  He will actually continue to sleep on the floor for two more hours!  Waking up grumpy and in pain, he was worse off than if he would have just gotten up to begin with.

With rolling onto the floor being a failure in quitting the snooze button problem, Rachman also tried just getting up and walking to the bathroom instead of hitting snooze.  But he actually would sit on the toilet and fall asleep again.  For two hours!  His roommates would be mad that he’d spent all that time in the bathroom, and he would wake up grumpy once again.

The Pavlok alarm worked wonders for Rachman. If he hits the snooze on his alarm, he gets zapped. The zap gives him a negative association with hitting the snooze button, causing him to not want to hit it.  Once he’s awake, and up, he’s good and can easily proceed with his day.

See Rachman’s whole story:

Why did that Pavlok work so much better than rolling onto the floor, or getting up and sitting on the toilet?  Other methods provided no immediate negative reason why Rachman shouldn’t hit snooze and let his later alarms wake him up.  Later he would be grumpy, uncomfortable, and have less of a day to accomplish things, but in his immediate mind upon waking up, it was totally worth it.  With Pavlok, he quickly trained his mind to associate hitting the snooze button with the negative zap.  His brain naturally wants to wake up instead of hitting snooze and getting zapped.

Are you ready to stop hitting the snooze button and wake up every day ready to hit the ground running?  Get your Pavlok today and add more time to your day!  We guarantee a Pavlok will help break your snoozing habit or we offer a 6 month money back guarantee!

Pavlok Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Brilliant Companies”

Behavioral Technologies Group, the maker of the PAVLOK behavior change wearable device, announced this week that they have been named to the Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies list for 2015. The annual list highlights companies that have turned brilliant ideas into products and solutions.

The story in the June issue of Entrepreneur Magazine recognizes companies in ten different categories ranging from finance to health. PAVLOK is recognized as one of the best companies in the “Health, Medical and Wellness Tech and Wearables” category for helping people break bad habits like smoking, nail biting, eating sugar or spending too much time on social media.

“We’re thrilled and honored to receive the recognition” said Maneesh Sethi, CEO and Founder of PAVLOK. “Entrepreneur Magazine naming us one of the 100 Brilliant Companies of 2015 shows that others share our belief that Pavlok can upgrade humanity through behavior change”.

Sethi and his team raised over $275,000 in a successful Indiegogo campaign in November 2014, and have since sold over 500 prototype PAVLOK devices to a passionate group of supporters who are looking to upgrade their lives by breaking their bad habits for good. The company will be launching the production version of the device in July 2015.

Pavlok has received critical acclaim from major news outlets for their habit change wearable, including The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Good Morning America, and The Colbert Report. They were also named “Best Tech Startup of 2015” by Tech In Motion and recently accepted an invitation to participate in the prestigious MassChallenge startup incubator program.

PAVLOK Shock-a-Thon Leads to 8 New API Integrations

PAVLOK recently hosted one of the world’s first behavior change hackathons (no joke, the only other one we could find was in Finland just a few months ago).

Eight teams competed by creating integrations that allowed 3rd party applications and sensors to trigger electric shock or other haptic feedback on the PAVLOK device.

We saw some really promising projects presented at the hackathon. We shot video of all of the presentations, however there were a few technical problems and not all could be used. We’ve included the video of presentations when possible, as well as links to the GitHub repository for those groups that shared their work publicly.

The full list of project descriptions:

  1. Script that shocks developers when they write bad code that uses a custom built NPM module, also making it easier for developers to connect to the API

  2. An integration that uses your phone’s position sensor to vibrate/shock if you sit for too long without standing up and moving around

  3. Android integration that shocks you when you open certain apps, eg., Reddit

  4. Wunderlist integration for knocking off your to-do list

  5. Slack messenger integration that allows you to buzz your coworkers on command, “shock Maneesh 255v”

  6. Google calendar integration that buzzes you to notify of calendar events

  7. Facebook integration that shocks you for posting certain words, e.g., lol

  8. Voice recognition where you can blacklist words, “like, ummm, uhhh”


First Place:

Chris Swenor of East Coast Product. Chris and his team won by writing a Javascript module that makes it easier for other developers to connect to the PAVLOK API, and then using that module to create a tool which punishes developers for writing bad code through an integration with CodeShip.

https://github.com/EastCoastProduct/pavlokjs

https://github.com/EastCoastProduct/pavlok-hack-api

Second Place:

Aaron Washburn, Teddy Wing, Carol Novitsky and Sunny Chin created an integration that uses your phone’s position sensor to vibrate/shock if you sit for too long without standing up and moving around.

https://github.com/washburnad/pavlok

Third Place:

Kevin Luo, Preston Carpenter, Atamai Tuiolosega and Zachary Marcus created an android app that shocks you when you open certain pages, eg., Reddit.

https://github.com/klevingluo/PavlokApp


Here are videos and GutHub repositories for other great integrations:

Facebook integration that shocks you for posting certain words, e.g., lol https://github.com/lizmorr/Shockathon (Joshua Maffuccio, Fred Chapman, Elizabeth Morrison, Matthew Riggott and ?)

Slack messenger integration that allows you to buzz your coworkers on command, for example: “shock maneesh 255v”

Google calendar integration that buzzes you to notify of calendar events

All awesome integrations! We’ll add more links to GitHub repositories as we’re able to get permission from the creators. In the mean time, get out there and create your own integration! https://pavlok.herokuapp.com

David Stopped Grinding his Teeth

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David had a bad habit of grinding his teeth. It was annoying to the people around him, and most importantly it is very bad for your teeth. “I’m a constant teeth grinder. It’s a very difficult habit to control because I do it so unconsciously.”

David was so excited to try the Pavlok that he became one of the prototype users. He’s been helping Pavlok perfect the product while working to break his own bad habits.

“There is nothing quite like the first shock that you receive. When I opened the envelope, of course I was very excited. It’s not that the shock is intense, you just don’t know what to expect and it surprises you.”

Pavlok’s 5 day, 5 minute protocol

For 5 days straight, shock yourself whenever you are doing the habit you wish to break, doing this at least 5 minutes a day. You can do the habit on purpose and shock yourself, or just shock yourself whenever you catch yourself doing it. After 5 days, you should notice an aversion to doing that action.

David used the 5 day, 5 minute protocol and he was able to completely stop grinding his teeth.

David noticed a big difference after the 5 days

Many users note that the most immediate effect of using Pavlok is that they become much more aware of their bad habit.

“The first day that I did it, I found that I was already much more aware of the issue. After 5 days, I would estimate that I reduced my teeth grinding by 80% That’s huge for me.”

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Rachman Stopped Sleeping in

You know the feeling…

You wake up to the alarm blaring, and you smash the snooze button.

Five minutes later, again the alarm, and again you hit the snooze button.

Sound a little too familiar?

For many people, waking up in the morning is difficult. For Rachman… it’s extremely difficult. Watch his video below where he talks about how he currently wakes up, and how he’s using Pavlok to change his bad habit.

[Transcript]

What’s up? This is Rachman Blake. I’m using Pavlok ­– oh yeah, right here – to break two bad habits that have been plaguing me for some time. So a little backstory, I am not much of a morning person, I can’t wake up really early. But, when I do wake up early, I’m extremely affected. What ends up happening is what you see right now. I stay up way too late and I start to get bags under my eyes because I don’t sleep enough.

One thing I wanna do is wake up at 7 o’clock. Every time I try to do that, I’ll just hit the snooze button on my iPhone and then go back to sleep. I’ve done a few things in the past. This is actually very funny – I’ve tried to create a micro habit of just getting out of the bed by 7AM. So to start it off, by just 7 o’clock I would just literally roll out of bed onto the floor. But then I just start sleeping on the floor uncomfortably for another 2 hours and then I would wake up with a —- ache in my back and have a —— day. So that’s it.

The second thing that I did was: I wake up and I would go to the bathroom but I didn’t have the need to pee, I just had to be out of the bed. So I’d wake up and then walk to the bathroom and then just sit on the toilet and then fall asleep. And then wake up like 2 hours later, you know, angry, my roommates were pissed off because I was in there and they thought I was masturbating or something like that.

Then Maneesh [Founder of Pavlok] recommended that instead of hitting the snooze button or doing any of this other weird stuff, that I just hit the Pavlok, which will shock me. And basically, that helps wake me up, one. And then two, it creates a negative association with hitting the snooze button, meaning like it’s; “The snooze button never ——- works anyway” That’s why they call it the snooze button, so you could snooze more. It’s not like get-out-of-bed button. Why would you put the snooze button in an alarm clock when it’s alarm clock it’s supposed to wake you up? Like snooze more! That doesn’t make any sense.

If you set the alarm clock to wake up, why would you hit a snooze button to sleep? It should be called the sleep-more-and-get-fired button cause that’s what’s gonna happen when you keep hitting that damn thing. Anyway, sorry, I didn’t mean to use my big voice.

Instead of hitting the sleep-more-eventually-get-fired-waste-your-life button, I hit the Pavlok, which is great because it create a negative association between the cue. The cue which is waking up – No, the cue is the – I need more sleep. Okay.

The cue…. —- Cue’s button in the routine is the “prooo”. No that’s the cue. You guys figure that out.

Anyway, so I do that, right? And it creates a negative association between hitting the snooze-get-fired button and negative association. So, I hit the cue button- the snooze button and I equate that with getting a shock. So if I’m still in bed, instead of hitting the snooze button when I hear my alarm go off, I keep hitting the Pavlok. And that was enough to just jolt me awake. Once I’m awake, I’m awake – I’m good.

Breaking the bad habit of oversleeping by instead of hitting the snooze-get-fired button, I instead hit the Pavlok, which creates a negative association from hitting the snooze button, which equates to more money. Somewhere down that line. Alright.

Nagina Stopped Biting Her Nails

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Nagina tried unsuccessfully for years to stop biting her nails.

In just two days, Pavlok helped her stop.

Watch her testimonial video, or read the transcript below.

[Transcript]
Hi, my name is Nagina and I am from New Jersey. I have had a problem with biting my nails, my entire life. I have tried everything to stop. I have bough that nail polish that tastes disgusting and you put it on and you bite it, it didn’t work. I have tried getting artificial nails and I bit them off. I was not finding the solution. So, I decided to try Pavlok and see if that would help me.

What I did is, I wore it for 2 days so far, and I shock myself every time I bite my nails. The minute I bit my nails, I shock myself. Within 2 days, I have already noticed that I am so much more aware of myself biting my nails, where there used to be very subconscious. Now, I am very aware, and I catch myself before I do it.

So, I am really looking forward to continue to wear a Pavlok and seeing my nails grow so that I can, you know, have normal hands and not feel embarrassed every time I am somewhere in public.

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