Medical Xpress April 13, 2023
By University of East Anglia

A stop-smoking mobile app that senses where and when you might be triggered to light up could help you quit, according to University of East Anglia research.

Quit Sense is the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) stop smoking app that detects when people are entering a location where they used to smoke. It then provides to help manage people’s specific smoking triggers in that location.

A study published today shows how the new app helped more smokers to quit than people who were only offered online NHS support. The research team hopes that by helping people manage situations, the new app will help more smokers to quit.

The work is published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

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