Creepypasta (Wikipedia - Definition)

Urban legends or scary stories circulating on the Internet, many times revolving around specific videos, pictures or video games.^[324] The term "creepypasta" is a mutation of the term "copypasta": a short, readily available piece of text that is easily copied and pasted into a text field. "Copypasta" is derived from "copy/paste", and in its original sense commonly referred to presumably initially sincere text (e.g. a blog or forum post) perceived by the copy/paster as undesirable or otherwise preposterous, which was then copied and pasted to other sites as a form of trolling.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena#Other_phenomena

Photo-essay (Wikipedia)

A photo-essay (or photographic essay) is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer. A photo essay will often show pictures in deep emotional stages. Photo essays range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full text essays with a few or many accompanying photographs. Photo essays can be sequential in nature, intended to be viewed in a particular order, or they may consist of non-ordered photographs which may be viewed all at once or in an order chosen by the viewer.^{[citation needed]} People who have undertaken photo essays include Bruce Davidson, W. Eugene Smith, Walker Evans, James Agee, David Alan Harvey, and André Kertész.^{[original research?]}

"After School Play Interrupted by the Catch and Release of a Stingray" is a simple time-sequence photo essay

• An article in a publication, sometimes a full page or a two-page spread. Newspapers and news magazines often have multi-page photo essays about significant events, both good and bad, such as a sports championship or a national disaster.
• A book or other complete publication.
• A web page or portion of a web site.
• A single montage or collage of photographic images, with text or other additions, intended to be viewed both as a whole and as individual photographs. Such a work may also fall in the category of mixed media.
• An art show which is staged at a particular time and location. Some such shows also fall in the category of installation art.
• A slide show or similar presentation, possibly with spoken text, which could be delivered on slides, on DVD, or on a web site.
• In fashion publishing especially, a photo-editorial – an editorial-style article dominated by or entirely consisting of a series of thematic photographs

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_essay

Text messages 'help smokers quit'

 

By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News

Supportive text messages can double the chance of someone successfully quitting smoking, according to UK researchers.

Just over 10% of 2,900 smokers who received encouraging texts such as "you can do it" had quit after six months, but only 4.9% of a similar number who did not have the same support gave up.

The study, published in The Lancet, called for texts to be included in services to help people kick the habit.

Other scientists said a text service could be offered globally.

According to government statistics two-thirds of UK smokers say they want to stop.

This study looked at 5,800 of them. Supportive texts were sent to 2,915 of the smokers for six months. The rest received only messages thanking them for taking part.

They were sent five texts a day for the first five weeks and then three a week for the next 26 weeks.

Participants could also text back for specific advice when they had cravings or had lapsed back into smoking.

Saliva tests for cotinine, which is made when nicotine is broken down by the body, were taken to determine if people had really given up.

After six months, 10.7% of those receiving texts had quit - double the proportion among those doing it on their own.

Dr Caroline Free, who led the txt2stop trial at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: 

"Text messages are a very convenient way for smokers to receive support to quit.

"People described txt2stop as being like having a friend encouraging them or an angel on their shoulder.

"It helped people resist the temptation to smoke."

Sample text messages

"To make things easier for yourself, try having some distractions ready for cravings and think up some personal strategies to help in stressful situations"


"This is it! - QUIT DAY, throw away all your fags. TODAY is the start of being QUIT forever, you can do it!"


"Quick result! Carbon monoxide has now left your body!"


"Day4=Big day - cravings still strong? Don't worry tomorrow will be easier! Keep your mind & hands busy."


"Cravings last less than 5 minutes on average. To help distract yourself, try sipping a drink slowly until the craving is over."


"Don't feel bad or guilty if you've slipped. You've achieved a lot by stopping for a while. Slip-ups can be a normal part of the quitting process. Keep going, you can do it!"

The World Health Organization says nearly six million die each year because of smoking, mostly in low and middle-income countries. 

Dr Derrick Bennett and Dr Jonathan Emberson, both from the University of Oxford, said text messages could be used to help people around the world.

"The lessons learned from the txt2stop trial could... not only provide a new approach to cessation in high-income and middle-income countries, but could also provide a useful starting point for implementing behavioural change in resource-poor settings."

It has also been suggested similar text messages could be used to help people modify other behaviour. 

Fuente: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13956252