Tobacco causes 50,000 deaths each year and is responsible for 90% of lung tumors. That’s why every year many smokers try to kick this habit and only 25% of smokers have managed to overcome the habit compared to 74% who have tried, so any help can be useful.
Tobacco is one of the most addictive substances that exist, after heroin and alcohol. That is why we are going to review some of the best applications in the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store to help you in this complicated mission to quit smoking, some of them even resorting to gamification to help you in the process.
Respirapp
The Spanish Association Against Cancer has been helping Spaniards to quit smoking for years with a specific program that has a 60% success rate. Now, this program has been transferred to an application adapted for mobile devices with all the scientific rigor of the smoking cessation programs of the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
RespirApp
It is an app that divides the process into phases so that you go through them more easily and at the end of each phase gives you a medal to make it clear that you are overcoming important steps.
- Phase 1: You’ll start by cutting back on the cigarettes you currently smoke for a week or two.
- Level 2: During the following weeks we will reduce the number of cigarettes allowed a little more and D-day is set, in which you will definitely stop smoking.
- Phase 3: D-day: the day you will stop smoking. RespirApp will accompany you during the process to help you with possible anxiety during this phase.
Quit smoking little by little
The Quit Smoking Gradually app can be your trusted companion as you quit. It helps you reduce the number of cigarettes per day, keeps your stress level and cravings under control, and accustoms your body to that decrease in tobacco until you quit smoking completely.
Once you start the process, you must indicate in the app every time you smoke a cigarette and it will be the one who will guide you the next ones. In this way, she gradually lengthens the time between one cigarette and another trying to prevent you from feeling anxiety.
It’s over
This application has been created by the Spanish Society of Smoking Specialists (SEDET), although a somewhat poor interface makes it seem more like an amateur project. Through different menus you will find advice and help to be able to face the first weeks without smoking.
App S’Acabó
In addition to including an achievement system that helps you review all those improvements in your health that you are obtaining, if what you were looking for was to lighten the family economy, it also includes a savings menu with the calculation of the money saved since you don’t smoke.
Smoke Free
Smoke Free is one of the quit smoking apps with the best interface and number of functions. The app supports you with more than 20 different scientifically proven techniques to help you quit smoking.
To motivate you, Smoke Free shows you how your health has improved since you decided to stop smoking. Get the evaluation of your pulse, oxygen level and other values of your body. The app has missions and awards that serve as proof that you have become a non-smoker, continue to resist addiction and have slowly kicked the habit of smoking. Complete daily quests and greatly increase your chance to stay smoke free.
EasyQuit
This app is free and uses mini-games and other distractions to help smokers avoid relapse. The application offers health statistics and motivational tools that help the person to check the benefits they get from giving up the habit.
Easyquit
In addition, it has a “slow mode” that consists of a personalized plan designed to give up tobacco progressively, and with a memory game that aims to overcome the temporary urge to smoke.
