Generally phones disturb your sleep more than they help it… they ring or buzz or beep and wake you up. But a company have just invented a way your phone could actually help you get to sleep.With an app of course.

The Sleep Better and Conquer Insomnia app doesn’t sing you lullabies but it does take you through a five-week sleep improvement course based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Devised by a certain Dr Gregg Jacobs, the site claims that the course on the app is more effective than taking sleeping pills.

This is what company Mental Workouts has to say about how the CBT app will help you sleep:

“Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has consistently been proven the most effective first-line treatment for improving sleep. It improves sleep in 75-80% of insomnia patients and eliminates sleeping pill use in almost half of patients. And, in three major studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Archives of Internal Medicine that directly compared CBT to sleeping pills, CBT was more effective than sleeping pills. CBT also has no side effects and maintains improvements in sleep long-term.”

Convinced? At £11.99 it’s expensive for an app, but cheaper than a session with a psychologist. See more on Mental Workout

Via shinyshiny