9 Great Apps to Help Quit Smoking

Cessation Nation

Cessation Nation provides support for smokers trying to quit, which many ex-smokers will say was absolutely necessary. In addition to support from a virtual community of people who want you to succeed, Cessation Nation can make resisting cravings fun with distracting games. This app also lets you visualize how much money you’ve been saving and how much healthier you’re becoming after you’ve quit.

 

Smoke Free

Smoke Free let’s you track and see your progress. In addition to days smoke free, your financial, and physical savings will be shown. To make the endeavor fun and social, you will receive awards for progress and be able to share your status with friends on social media. A log can be kept of cravings as well.

 

 

Kwit

In addition to tracking progress and allowing you to share on social media, Kwit offers a neat way to avoid relapse. Shaking your phone will randomly bring up a motivational boost.

 

 

 

LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach

LIVESTRONG’s MyQuit Coach app helps you quit by helping you come up with a plan and keeping you accountable to it. You can quit cold turkey or utilize a step-down approach. You can track and analyze both nicotine consumption and cravings and put in your own milestones. And the app is free.

 

 

 

 

Quit It Lite

Another free app, Quit It Lite allows you to track how many cigarettes you haven’t smoked and how much your health has improved since your quit date. It also tells you how much you’ve saved since you’ve been smoke free.

 

 

 

Stop Smoking Cigarettes Now

In addition to tracking and displaying all the benefits of not smoking, this app allows you to interact with a community of support from other nicotine addicts. Stop Smoking Cigarettes Now’s community support forums can be used for motivation and positive support.

 

 

 

 

Quit Smoking with Andrew Johnson

An app developed for smokers by clinical hypnotherapist and stress management expert Andrew Johnson. The app teaches you how to recognize and deal with triggers using proven behavioral therapy techniques. As quitting can be a stressful process and stress itself a trigger, relaxing the mind and body can help many smokers quit.

 

 

Craving to Quit Pro

You can try a free-version of this app, or jump in and use this app and the 21-day program developed by Yale University. A regiment of daily and nightly activities helps you stay motivated and proactive, while reminders and positive feedback keeps you on track. Quit Pro

 

 

 

Quit Pro

Unlike other pro activities, you can be a pro at quitting smoking by only doing it once. Why not try this app that lets you recognize the behaviors you need to change. Tracking the moods and situations that lead to cigarettes you smoke or cravings you resist after you’ve quit can be an invaluable tool that this app lets you discover and bring to your awareness. The app lets you track the benefits since you became smoke free and share progress through social media.