The best free apps to help you quit smoking
There are millions of apps available on the Apple and Google Play app stores today, including a large collection which will help you on your journey to stop smoking.
To save you sifting
through a lot of apps when you’re starting out on your quit-smoking journey, join 'how to stop smoking' specialists from Nicotinell as they bring together
a selection of the most effective and free-to-download quit smoking apps that
you need on your smartphone:
Smoke Free
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If you’d like to
clearly and accurately chart your progress along your quit-smoking journey,
then Smoke-Free is perfect for you.
An evidence-based and a theory-driven app, Smoke-Free features a dashboard filled with facts and stats such as:
- Savings made so far (which you can even expand on by entering the details of something you’d like to buy and then receive a clock counting down to when you can afford it).
- Savings made on a yearly basis.
- The number of days a user has been smoke-free.
- The amount of life regained since the user stopped smoking.
- The number of cravings that a user has successfully resisted.
Your health will also
be monitored as you get to grips with the Smoke-Free app, as it provides
guidance about when your blood pressure, breathing, carbon monoxide levels,
circulation, energy levels, oxygen levels, the risk of lung cancer, sense of smell
and sense of taste should be returning to their normal rates.
Craving To Quit!
Are you seeking some
sort of structure to help you to quit smoking? Then Craving To Quit! is the
perfect app for you.
Load up the app and
you’ll be presented with a 21-day programme which has been designed based on
research carried out and tested by Yale University for a successful smoking
cessation initiative. This clinical trial was delivered to a group over a
four-week period and was found to be twice as effective as the gold standard
treatment offered.
Once you get started
on your own programme, you’ll be presented with a series of helpful training
videos, a cigarette tracker, goals and statistics, and check-in reminders on a
daily basis. The main goal of all of these will be to progress you to the point
where you can enjoy having zero cigarettes each day.
Stop Smoking — Mindfulness Meditation
App
We again go back to
Yale University, this time to pick up on a study done there which found that 30
percent who practiced meditation to stop smoking then did not smoke one
cigarette during the entire first week of training. In contrast, only six per
cent of people achieved the same results when using more traditional methods of
quitting smoking.
With this research in
mind, the Stop Smoking — Mindfulness Meditation App presents you with a series
of guided meditation sessions which are all designed to reduce the stress
linked with addiction.
For further support,
the app can also connect with both your Facebook and Twitter profiles to
provide you with even more advice and support.
LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach
LIVESTRONG.COM has
been helping people to lead stronger, healthier and happier lives for years,
with this idea transferred across to those who are looking to stop smoking with
the LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach app.
The application, which
has been approved by physicians, gives you the ability to evaluate your current
lifestyle, set realistic and achievable goals and adjust preferences as you see
fit to match your requirements — for instance, choosing between totally quitting
straight away or decreasing your daily nicotine intake on a daily basis.
Feel as though you’ll
need encouragement while progressing along your stop-smoking journey? Then
you’ll be pleased to hear that the app also has the ability to store personalised
inspirational photos and will regularly deliver you with helpful motivational
tips.
Source:
Nicotinell UK
Nicotinell UK
Jamie Roberts
Senior Copywriter
The best free apps to help you quit smoking
Reviewed by Mili Ponce
on
Friday, April 12, 2019
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Reviewed by Mili Ponce
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Friday, April 12, 2019
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