Cignix is India's neural circuit-based smoking cessation platform. We don't motivate people to quit. We dismantle the learned circuits that keep them smoking.
Why most approaches fall short
Most quit-smoking programmes treat smoking as a habit or an addiction. Very few treat it as what it also is: a deeply grooved neural circuit.
Every cigarette a person has ever smoked has left a trace in the nervous system - a neural circuit that links a cue (stress, a meal, a break) to an automatic response: light up. That circuit doesn't care about willpower. It runs below conscious thought, faster than intention can intercept it.
That is why willpower alone doesn't work. That is why nicotine replacement treats the symptom but not the circuit. And that is why most people who try to quit relapse - not because they didn't want it badly enough, but because they were using the wrong tools.
of unaided quit attempts fail within the year - with the highest-risk window in the first two weeks. The circuit, left intact, reasserts itself the moment a trigger appears.
Cignix was built to address the circuit.
The methodology
TCP is a seven-layer cessation methodology. It doesn't suppress the urge to smoke - it systematically dismantles the cue-response circuit that produces it.
Every person enters TCP through the same door: the SIM.
Entry Point
A 25-statement self-assessment. Under 5 minutes. The SIM helps you understand your cravings and triggers inside out. Your SIM score reveals how deeply your cravings have organised around your beliefs.
Dependence Mapping
Where the SIM maps your cravings, CNTA maps your level of nicotine dependence. CNTA determines your personalised path through TCP - giving the protocol the precision it needs to meet you where you actually are, not where a generic plan assumes you to be.
From there, TCP moves through seven layers: circuit mapping, extinction training, craving architecture, identity shift, relapse prevention, and sustained freedom.
The proprietary tools that power TCP were built specifically for this methodology - not repurposed clinical instruments.
The process
Begin with the SIM to understand your cravings and triggers inside out. CNTA then maps your level of nicotine dependence and determines your personalised path through TCP.
TCP guides you through the layers that apply to you - identifying the specific cue-response circuits behind your smoking, weakening them through structured work, and replacing automatic responses with conscious choice.
Quitting is not the finish line. TCP's final layers lock in the new neural baseline and build the cognitive toolkit that keeps the old circuit dormant - permanently.
The man behind the protocol
A former chain-smoker, Ravi tried and failed to quit more times than he can count, not because he lacked discipline, but because nothing he tried addressed what smoking actually was.
Studying craving patterns, working with neuroscientists, and immersing himself in the science of addiction led to a single insight: smoking is not a choice that persists - it is a circuit that fires. And circuits can be dismantled. That insight became The Cignix Protocol.
What sets Cignix apart
TCP is a structured seven-layer methodology - not a motivational series or a willpower challenge. There is a sequence, a logic, and a reason for every layer.
The SIM and CNTA ensure every person's path through TCP is matched to their actual dependence profile. No two paths are identical.
Language, context, and cultural triggers are embedded throughout TCP - not translated from a Western model.
TCP draws on published research in nicotine dependence and the neuroscience of learned behaviour - and on the lived experience of people who have quit using Cignix.
Cignix works with cessation specialists, clinical advisors, and content experts to keep TCP rigorous, current, and responsive to what the evidence says.
The SIM takes under 5 minutes. It's free. And it's the first step of the only protocol built around how smoking actually works.
Take the SIM - it's free25 statements · Under 5 minutes · No account needed
