Smartphone App Profiling May Aid Smoking Cessation

Medscape March 24, 2025
Edited by Manasi Talwadekar

TOPLINE:

Smartphone telehealth profiling, combined with nurse-led telephone counseling, increased smoking cessation rates in users unwilling to quit. This intervention showed higher rates of tobacco abstinence and usage of cessation aids than ecological momentary assessment (EMA) alone.

METHODOLOGY:

• This randomized clinical trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a novel smoking cessation intervention using a self-developed EMA smartphone app for profiling smoking behaviors, guiding personalized counseling via telephone, and instant messaging for tobacco users.
• Researchers included 459 participants (mean age, 36.7 years; 33.8% women) from Hong Kong who used tobacco with no intention to use cessation aids in the next month and did not use any smoking cessation services and medications in the preceding 7 days.
• All participants...

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