Livestrong MyQuit Coach for iPhone

The Livestrong MyQuit Coach application is considered by iPhone users as one of the most popular of a kind application helping to quit smoking. It maintains a decent 4.5 starts rating, based on more than 2,000 end user reviews.

MyQuit Coach creates a personalized plan for you to help you quit smoking for good. Through a physician approved, interactive and easy to use app, you’ll evaluate your current status, set attainable goals and adjust preferences according to your needs. You'll finally be able to stop smoking.

You will have the option to choose to quit smoking right away or gradually decrease your daily nicotine intake—tracking the times you smoke and have nicotine cravings along the way. Personalized inspirational photos, motivational tips and progress charts will provide quit smoking help and keep you on track while achievement badges will reward you for progress. And you’re not alone with a built in social support circle and the option to update your Facebook and Twitter as friends cheer you on. When you are ready to stop smoking, let MyQuit Coach be your guide.

Main Features:

* Personalized quitting plan
* Upload your own personalized motivations
* Track your daily consumption and allowance
* Optional budget alerts and reminders
* Earn badges and awards
* View charts of your usage history by date and time
* Your plan will automatically adjust if necessary
* Quitting tips, facts, and motivation from Livestrong.com
* Get support through Facebook, Twitter, and Livestrong.com

The Livestrong.com MyQuit Coach application has been reviewed by smoking cessation specialist Dr. Jonathan Foulds, nicotine addiction specialist Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami, psychologist Dr. Belisa Vranich and cardiologist and internist Dr. Leslie Saxon.

Cost: Free

Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

Developer’s website: http://www.livestrong.com/quit-smoking-app/

iTunes Page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livestrong-myquit-coach-dare/id383122255?mt=8

My QuitLine for iPhone

Quit smoking is not easy for most people. But with help of iPhone, it might be a bit easier. Now, smokers who are interested in quitting for good can get substantial support and assistance from their smart mobile devices iPhones with new free application offering a live quitline coach and live text to advice on how to drop the dangerous addiction.

Developed by The George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) and the National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (NTCC), “My QuitLine" application also provides evidence-based treatment for quitting. It connects the user to the National Cancer Institute's quitline service where they speak to a live quitline coach or use live text to get advice on quitting.

GW's Dr. Lorien Abroms, assistant research professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health, designed the application with feedback from the NTCC, after reading an NTCC report about the lack of iPhone software that link smokers to proven therapies.

"Quitline counseling has been shown to double a person's chance of quitting smoking. It is important to make sure that in these new media environments, people still receive information about what has been proven to work in quitting smoking, and get access to tools that are based on these proven therapies," said Abroms.

While the Apple app store has other applications to help people quit smoking, no others use products or services recommended as effective by the 2008 Public Health Service Guideline Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.

"The My QuitLine app finally gives iPhone users access to an evidence-based method to help them quit smoking. The best part is that it is free and proven to work," said Todd Phillips, director of the NTCC.

Phone Counseling Hours (1-877-44U-QUIT): Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m local time. Help is available in English or Spanish languages and totally free.

Live Help Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m ET. Help is available in English or Spanish languages and totally free.

Do checkout My QuitLine on iTunes. This certainly can be an effective, free way to quit smoking for all those who are looking out for help to quit smoking.

iTunes site for My QuitLine: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-quitline/id308725811?mt=8

Sources and Additional Information:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-04-29/health/28006458_1_quitline-apple-app-store-national-tobacco-cessation-collaborative

http://technofriends.in/2009/05/22/iphone-app-quit-smoking-with-myquitline/

Smokefree QuitGuide app for iPhone

The QuitGuide is a free application developed by MMG, Inc., for the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Written by tobacco control professionals and cessation counselors, with the help of ex-smokers and experts, this app is designed to help you prepare to quit smoking and support you in the days and weeks after you quit.

The app allows you to search for content using keywords, save specific pages as favorites, and share information you are reading via Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail. It also provides insight into what to expect when you quit, and how to deal with problems that may come up in your journey to be smokefree.

Being prepared, having information at the ready, and staying connected to a larger online community can help get you through the hard times.

Website: http://www.smokefree.gov/apps/

iTunes Direct Link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/quitguide/id411766556?mt=8

About SmokeFree

Smokefree.gov is intended to help you or someone you care about quit smoking.

Different people need different resources as they try to quit. The information and professional assistance available on this Web site can help to support both your immediate and long-term needs as you become, and remain, a nonsmoker.

Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in the form of:

• A step-by-step quit smoking guide
• Information about a wide range of topics related to smoking and quitting
• An interactive U.S. map highlighting smoking information in your state
• LiveHelp, National Cancer Institute's instant messaging service
• National Cancer Institute's telephone quitline, 1-877-44U-QUIT
• Local and state telephone quitlines, 1-800-QUIT-NOW
• Publications to download, print, or order

The Web site was created by the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute.