The Best Quit Smoking Apps of the Year

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Written by Elizabeth Santoro

We selected these apps based on their usability, user ratings, frequent updates, and valuable contribution to people’s efforts to quit smoking. If you want to nominate an app for this list, email us at nominations@healthline.com.

Smoking causes 1 in 5 deaths in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just trying to quit is worth a shot! Remember, you don’t have to do it alone.

While there are many tools to keep the cravings at bay, below are some apps to help track your progress. Seeing how many smoke-free days you achieve can be immensely rewarding. These apps will help make the day to day manageable as you reach your end goal of becoming completely smoke-free.

LIVESTRONG MYQUIT COACH

LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach

iPhone rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

Reviewed by doctors, this app acts as a virtual coach to develop your personalized plan for quitting. You can choose to either quit cold turkey or gradually taper off. You can track your smoking consumption and nicotine cravings. When times get tough, you can set reminders, goals, and even personal motivations to keep going. You’ll also earn achievement badges as a reward for your progress and can communicate with other users via the app’s built-in social support circle.

QUIT IT LITE

Quit It Lite

iPhone rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

For some, knowing the direct impact of quitting smoking can keep the temptation from returning. This app gives you all the details. For example, it tells you the amount of tar you didn’t consume! Want to save up for that new iPad? You can even set your own money-saving goals for how to use the cash accumulated from not buying cigarettes.

QUIT SMOKING: CESSATION NATION

Quit Smoking: Cessation Nation

Android rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

The journey to quit can be a tough road to travel alone. This app helps bring a community together to strive toward the same goal. With Cessation Nation, you can keep track of your health improvements, money saved, and earn reward badges for your progress. When the cravings emerge, fear not! This app includes a game to help distract you from your cravings and stay on track.

CRAVING TO QUIT

Craving to Quit

iPhone rating: ★★★★✩

Price: Free with in-app purchases

With this app, you’ll follow a 21-day program to ideally reach zero cigarettes on the last day. The app comes with a three-day free trial. For the full program, it costs $25 a month. Each day you’ll have training videos, a cigarette consumption tracker, and check-in reminders to help you quit. You can also set daily goals to acknowledge winning small battles as you conquer the war.

QUIT SMOKING — QUITNOW!

Quit Smoking — QuitNow!

iPhone rating: ★★★★✩

Android rating: ★★★★★

Price: iPhone, Free with in-app purchases and Android, Free

This app makes the journey to quit a social one. In addition to tracking your cigarette-free streak, money saved, and health benefits, the app provides a community chat to share your progress. With over 2 million successful quitters and 44 language options, you’ll find an inspiring community here.

QUIT SMOKING WITH ANDREW JOHNSON

Quit Smoking with Andrew Johnson

iPhone rating: ★★★★✩

Android rating: ★★★★✩

Price: $2.99

This app seeks to use self-hypnosis to break your habits associated with smoking. Developed by a clinical hypnotherapist, the app’s audio tracks help you achieve a deep, relaxed state, and sends messages to your subconscious to promote quitting.

SMOKE FREE

Smoke Free

iPhone rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

Ready to take on the challenge of quitting? With features telling you how much money you saved, cravings resisted, and health regained, you can see your progress improve over time.

KWIT

Kwit

iPhone rating: ★★★★★

Android rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

Why not have a little fun while you quit? You’ll use game techniques with this app. It tracks your smoke-free stats like money saved, cigarettes not smoked, and days progressed. You can even track your willpower! As the stats add up, you can reach higher levels within the app and unlock achievements.

BUTT OUT

Butt Out

iPhone rating: ★★★★★

Android rating: ★★★★✩

Price: iPhone, $6.99 and Android, $3.99

The desire to quit is personal. So are your motivations. Here, you can set an individual photo and quote to help motivate you. You can also set how you want to quit: cold turkey, tapering, or another date. To show progress, the app tracks your health improvements, cravings, cigarettes smoked, and money saved. The app compares your smokes to cravings via a graph, so you can see your resistance to urges increase over time.

GET RICH OR DIE SMOKING

Get Rich or Die Smoking

Android rating: ★★★★★

Price: Free

Get Rich or Die Smoking is another money-for-motivation app that tracks the money you save quitting and lets you know what you can now afford. For some external motivation via the app’s community of users, you can see what others are buying with their saved money. The app also tracks health improvements, smoke-free days, relapses, and unlocked achievements.

For further information log on website :
https://www.healthline.com/health/quit-smoking/top-iphone-android-apps

LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach - Dare to Quit Smoking

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By LIVESTRONG.COM

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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

Description

The LIVESTRONG.COM MyQuit Coach application creates a personalized plan to help you quit smoking. 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.

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.

LIVESTRONG.COM inspires and empowers people to achieve their daily goals around living healthy. The website connects visitors with useful tools, trustworthy information and a passionate, engaged community of likeminded people, who are willing to share their experiences.

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What's New in Version 2.1.1

iOS 7 fixes

An update for the MyQuit Coach app is on its way! If you have already updated to iOS 11, please DO NOT delete the current MyQuit app from your device. This will ensure that your historical data is safe! Please email us at support@livestrong.com if you'd like to participate in our Beta Program, or for any other questions!

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Customer Reviews

Nice app 

     

by Lolajbdkshejdhe

Very good app, I like the community section a lot!

Funny how a little app can keep you on track. 

     

by hopjef

If not for this app I probably would have "snuck" a smoke here and there. This app and the community keep me in check.

Fix! Please! 

     

by JCHargrove

Posts and reposts cannot be seen, come on!

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For further information log on website :
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/livestrong-myquit-coach-dare-to-quit-smoking/id383122255?mt=8

Cloud Forests and Biodiversity

Mainland Ecuador has three general regions, Amazon, Sierra and Pacific Coast. If we took a journey, let’s say, starting at 0 meters elevation from Coastal Ecuador along the Pacific Ocean eastward, up and over the Andes, toward the Amazon Basin we would traverse through some of the most important life zones in Ecuador. First we would travel through Coastal Lowland Rainforest, then to Foothill forest and then as we climb we would reach Cloud Forest (or Pre Montane Forest). Above this lies Paramo and the Volcanic Peaks. Now on our descent on the Eastern slope of the Andes we first find Paramo, then Cloud forest, Foothill Forest and finally the Amazon Basin. So Ecuador has two Rainforests (Coastal and Amazonian), two Foothill Forests (Western and Eastern), two Cloud Forests (Western and Eastern) and Paramo. Of course I’ve not mentioned Dry Coastal Forest to the south and Coastal Mangrove. If we were driving on our imaginary journey it would have taken about 15 hours. Anyway, geographic diversity leads to biological diversity and Ecuador is definitely the proof with over 1,600 bird species, more frog and orchid species than any other country… overall amazing biodiversity!

What is a Cloud Forest and how is it different than a Rainforest? Well, our first Cloud Forest sensations will probably be… moist, cool, green, lush. These first adjectives are important to describe a Cloud Forest. Yes it is moist. The rainy season is from January until May, with a lot of the precipitation in the form of mist and also rain. Luckily the rain is pretty predictable during this time and starts at about 2 PM and continues for a few hours giving us plenty of time to schedule our day activities. Because of the higher altitude, Cloud Forests are cool. The highest temperatures in Mindo are around 80F and the low at night is around 55F… all year round! Because of the moisture and coolness (that slows evaporation), Cloud Forests are very green and lush. This unique climate allows loads of epiphytes, plants that live on other plants, to grow almost out of control! There are mosses on the trunks of trees, orchids between the mosses, ferns growing on branches, algae covering leaves… much mores so than in Rain Forests. In Mindo there is a distinct dry season for about 7 months (June through December) when rain is scarce and sporadic, but moisture levels are still maintained by mists that condense on the side of mountains.

So Cloud Forests are more lush and cooler than lowland Rainforests. Another difference is that Rainforests have larger, silt laden, slow moving rivers, while Cloud Forests are characterized by fast moving, clear rocky rivers. Both are diverse, but which is more diverse? Well it depends on what and where you look. Cloud forests have beautiful overlooks due to the irregular, mountainous terrain (no need for bird towers here!), while Rainforests are flatter and often separated by swamps, lakes or streams. This is important in the distribution of species. Rainforests are incredibly diverse but the plants and animals are more widespread while Cloud Forests, because of natural barriers, have many more range restricted or endemic species. If we look at epiphytes, such as Orchids, Cloud Forests are more diverse… at tree species, Rainforest. Bird species? It probably depends on the size of the area observed. If you expand out a little and include a few valleys and mountains, plus different elevations Cloud Forests probably hold more bird species. Remember this comes from someone living in a Cloud Forest!

images by oxfoto@attglobal.net

The best advice is to visit both on your trip to Ecuador!

While mammal species are difficult to see, over time we have spotted on the El Monte reserve: Central American Agouti, Ocelot, Margay, Red Brocket Deer, Paca, Tayra, Andean Coati, Three-Toed Sloth, and White-Fronted Capuchin Monkeys. There is also a high diversity of reptiles, amphibians, butterflies and other insects. Some of the interesting lizard species include the "Jesus Christ Lizard", which can walk on water and the very rare Proboscis Lizard. Frogs include various species of tree frogs, glass frogs, toads etc.

SUSTAINABILITY

Almost from the very beginning human beings have placed huge demands on our planet. We can’t deny that, whether in his original form, hunting some animals to extinction or to the modern version where his hunger for natural resources is unprecedented, putting ever more pressure on forests, native species, world climate, local climate, cultures… well you get the picture.

So how do we lessen our impact on our planet?

Growing organic fruits and vegetables or buying them locally certainly helps. This reduces dependency on petroleum used for transport and pesticides and lessens the amount of carbon emissions. Our garden is all hand worked, which not only gives Jhon and Nacho a job but also eliminates the need for noisy, polluting, resource burning tractors or tillers, not to mention giving us all a chance for a great workout! Also, all kitchen wastes are composted and recycled back into the garden.

Having a spring that gravity feeds water down to the lodge and cabanas is not only convenient but also eliminates the necessity for a pump, not too mention providing clean, fresh, cool water.

We have also allowed most of El Monte’s Reserve to regrow sucking in a countless amount of CO2 while releasing O2. El Monte’s spin-off, the Mindo Biological Station (MBS), protects over 6,000 hectares of Primary Cloud Forest that holds a tremendous amount of CO2 and is part of the 19,200 hectare Mindo-Nambillo Protected Forest.

Lighting for the main house comes from 2 solar panels (which we are also able to use to charge camera batteries and laptops), kerosene lanterns and candles. A micro hydro electrical system provides lights for the cabañas. Alternative energy is here!

ECOLOGICAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Our goal at El Monte has always been to help preserve and protect the biodiversity and natural beauty of Mindo. Together with the people from Mindo we feel we have one of the best examples of ecotourism in the town of Mindo and in the protection of the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve (19,000 hectares). It is a pleasure to see the people progressing in education, health, ability to speak English and other languages, and to have a more stable financial economy, all while passionately defending the local environment. Mindo should be a basic model for like-minded communities here in Ecuador or all over the world.

At El Monte we have provided on-the-job training for river rafting and bird guides, cooks and gardeners. Some have remained with us, others have gone on to start their own businesses or work independently.

El Monte sponsors and founded the Mindo Biological Station and helped in the beginning of Sani Lodge (www.sanilodge.com). Our commitment to not expand our business has allowed us to work in adjacent and distant areas.

Sani Lodge (www.sanilodge.com) is an ecotourism lodge located deep in the Ecuadorian Rainforest. It is 100% owned and managed by a comuna of Kichwa. We at El Monte are proud to have helped start Sani and still work as advisors for the lodge. Hopefully you will have a chance to visit Sani on your trip to Ecuador… it truly is a once in a lifetime experience.

Our present “outside” Mindo project is on the coast in the area of the Mache-Chindul Reserve. This reserve is one of the last remaining areas to protect coastal Rainforest. We have bought and are planning to grow shade grown cacao (chocolate) and hope to motivate the locals to continue to do the same. This should take the pressure off of the remaining Pacific forest and slow the deforestation in the area.

For further information log on website :
http://www.ecuadorcloudforest.com/html/Cloud.html

Biodegradable Nanocomposite Films Based on Sodium Alginate and Cellulose Nanofibrils

Author

B. Deepa ^1,2

,Eldho Abraham ³

,Laly A. Pothan ^1,* ,Nereida Cordeiro ⁴

,Marisa Faria ⁴

 andSabu Thomas ⁵

¹

Department of Chemistry, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara-690101, Kerala, India

²

Department of Chemistry, Church Missionary Society(C.M.S) College, Kottayam-686001, Kerala, India

³

Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, POB 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel

⁴

Faculty of Exact Science and Engineering, University of Madeira, 9000-390 Funchal, Portugal

⁵

School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam-686560, Kerala, India

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Academic Editor: Marco Morreale

Received: 30 September 2015 / Revised: 30 December 2015 / Accepted: 11 January 2016 / Published: 14 January 2016

Abstract

Biodegradable nanocomposite films were prepared by incorporation of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) into alginate biopolymer using the solution casting method. The effects of CNF content (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 and 15 wt %) on mechanical, biodegradability and swelling behavior of the nanocomposite films were determined. The results showed that the tensile modulus value of the nanocomposite films increased from 308 to 1403 MPa with increasing CNF content from 0% to 10%; however, it decreased with further increase of the filler content. Incorporation of CNF also significantly reduced the swelling percentage and water solubility of alginate-based films, with the lower values found for 10 wt % in CNF. Biodegradation studies of the films in soil confirmed that the biodegradation time of alginate/CNF films greatly depends on the CNF content. The results evidence that the stronger intermolecular interaction and molecular compatibility between alginate and CNF components was at 10 wt % in CNF alginate films. View Full-Text

Keywords: cellulose nanofibrils; sodium alginate; nanocomposite films; solvent casting; mechanical properties

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).

MDPI and ACS Style

Deepa, B.; Abraham, E.; Pothan, L.A.; Cordeiro, N.; Faria, M.; Thomas, S. Biodegradable Nanocomposite Films Based on Sodium Alginate and Cellulose Nanofibrils. Materials 2016, 9, 50.

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http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/1/50

Evaluation of Castor Oil Cake Starch and Recovered Glycerol and Development of “Green” Composites Based on Those with Plant Fibers

Author

José Luis Guimarães ¹

,Ana Cristina Trindade Cursino ²

,Cyro Ketzer Saul ³

,Maria Rita Sierrakowski ²

,Luiz Pereira Ramos ²

 andKestur Gundappa Satyanarayana ^2,†,* 

¹

Setor de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica; Universidade Federal do Paraná—UFPR, Centro Politécnico, Rua Alcides Vieira Arcoverde, 1225, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba 81520-260, Brazil

²

Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Paraná—UFPR, Centro Politécnico, P. B. No.19081, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba 81531-980, Brazil

³

Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná—UFPR, Centro Politécnico, P. B. No.19044, Jardim das Américas, Curitiba 81531-980, Brazil

^†

Present Address: Poornaprajna Scientific Research Institute, (PPISR), Bidalur Post, Devanahalli, Bangalore-562 110, Karnataka, India

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Academic Editor: Aldo Boccaccini

Received: 14 December 2015 / Accepted: 13 January 2016 / Published: 27 January 2016

Abstract

Continuous efforts are being made in some countries for the recovery of crude glycerin (RG/CG) and castor oil cake (COC), the two byproducts of biodiesel production. These are expected to help, not only in addressing environmental safety, but also in adding value to those byproducts, which otherwise may go to waste. Finding ways to utilize those byproducts underlines the main objective of this study. This paper presents the evaluation of (i) COC, glycerin and banana and sugarcane fibers for moisture content; (ii) COC for structural and thermal properties; and (iii) CG for its chemical characteristics. The possibility of using COC and CG with the selected fibers as reinforcement in the development of bio-composites is attempted through thermo-molding. Results revealed enhanced mechanical properties for these composites. The obtained results are discussed in terms of the observed morphology. View Full-Text

Keywords: fibers; castor oil cake; starch; glycerol; thermo-molding; green composites

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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).

MDPI and ACS Style

Guimarães, J.L.; Trindade Cursino, A.C.; Ketzer Saul, C.; Sierrakowski, M.R.; Ramos, L.P.; Satyanarayana, K.G. Evaluation of Castor Oil Cake Starch and Recovered Glycerol and Development of “Green” Composites Based on Those with Plant Fibers. Materials 2016, 9, 76.

For further details log on website :
http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/2/76