Medical Xpress January 13, 2026
Smartphone apps—particularly those based on psychological theories—are three times as effective as no/minimal support at helping people who smoke stub out their tobacco use long term, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the online journal BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
If high quality clinical trials can confirm lasting benefits and key features, these apps could become a cornerstone of global tobacco control efforts, suggest the researchers.
Smartphone apps offer an accessible and versatile approach to smoking cessation efforts. But the current body of evidence has been hindered by small study numbers and app obsolescence, say the researchers.
Most currently available smoking cessation apps adopt either traditional behavioral frameworks, focused on directly modifying smoking behavior, or psychological-behavioral...
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