Smoking is a nasty little habit that destroys our lungs and thus our lives. Tobacco kills up to half of its users who don't quit. Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. Smoking is not something that is natural for our lungs to do. Our lungs were not meant to inhale smoke for enjoyment or recreation, it doesn't solve life's problems only makes it worse. It is a waste of valuable time and money.
If you like most people want to quit there are ways to get there. If you can’t do it gradually or cold turkey (quitting cold turkey means quitting smoking altogether rather than gradually without the help of any NRTs like nicotine gums, lozenges, nicotine patch, and inhalators, which look like plastic cigarettes, nasal and mouth spray). There are medications too, if all else fails.
While all of these Nicotine Replacement therapy products, smoking cessation medications are effective; if you want to use your willpower only to quit smoking then your smartphone may come in handy. There are quit-smoking apps and free quit smoking tracker app for android that will aid you in your smoking cessation.
These apps ask some basic questions like how many cigarettes you smoke daily and the price per pack, how many years you've been smoking, and provide insights accordingly. Some of these apps are free and some of these apps are free with in-app purchases. Some apps have support groups which is really helpful. In this article, you'll find out all of these apps' features and some tips to quit smoking.
Here are the top 13 free quit-smoking apps for Android that you can use:
1. SmokeFree: Quit smoking slowly
SmokeFree has a rating of 4.6 on the Play Store and is one of the best feature-loaded apps for quitting smoking. The app comes with features such as:-
- It helps monitor your health improvements in the app dashboard. You can get an estimate of how your pulse rate has returned to normal, the improvement of oxygen level in your blood as well as carbon monoxide level, nicotine expelled from the body, and how your risk of heart disease and lung cancer has decreased as a result of your quit. Although these are estimates these features will provide encouragement and reassurement to you.
The pro version will provide you with a quit coach chatbot(a stop-smoking advisor), a customizable dashboard, more badges, and more features to improve your chances of quitting.
2. QuitNow!
QuitNow! by Few Laps is another great app that will help your quit journey. It has a review of 4.6 and has a lot of features that include:-
- QuitNow! has an achievement system for quitting smoking.
- You can see the duration of your quit in terms of days, hours, and minutes in the dashboard.
- It shows how many days you haven't smoked, how many cigarettes you have avoided, and how much money you have saved since you quit smoking. It also shows you an estimate of how many days of your life you have regained through quitting smoking.
- QuitNow also has an online community where its users encourage and support each other in their quit.
- You can see the health benefits you are getting like your reduced heart rate and blood pressure, the carbon monoxide level in your blood, how your circulation has improved, and how your lung function has increased. You also can see how much the risk of coronary heart disease has decreased, and how the chances of having a stroke, or different types of cancers have decreased as compared to that of a non-smoker.
- QuitNow! has a feature that helps beat your cravings which includes tips, and calm breathe, a breathing technique to help slow down your breathing, reduce your anxiety, and manage your cravings.
3. Stop Smoking - EasyQuit
Stop smoking- Easyquit is yet another great app to help you quit smoking. It has a 4.8 rating on the Play Store and is free with ads(you can get rid of the ads by getting the pro version). Its features include:-
- Stop smoking-Easyquit shows you health statistics, like how much life you have regained, and a total health percentage( It shows how much your blood pressure and oxygen level have returned to normal, how blood nicotine has decreased, gained taste and smell, improved respiratory system, your reduced nicotine dependence, and other vital stats as well such as the reduced rate of having strokes, lung cancer etc.)
- Cravings & Trigger Statistics where you can add your cravings and the feelings behind it. In the craving history section, you can then monitor the statistics of those cravings.
- If you're having a problem quitting all at once you can set a plan of gradually decreasing your cigarettes per day and setting up a plan for it in the app.
- You can see how much money you have saved.
- The app gives you motivational badges(there are over 100 badges here)
- It has a Matching-Pairs Game to distract you if you're having a craving.
- It shows how many hours you've been smoke-free how many cigarettes you have passed, a relapse assistant, and an option to add your goal weight. Oh, you can also choose many themes from the settings page too!
You can keep track of your quit-smoking journey using Quit Tracker: Stop Smoking. It has some other great features as well. These include:-
- Quit Tracker: Stop Smoking shows you how many days you have not smoked in the dashboard.It shows your quit smoking duration divided into days, hours, minutes and seconds which is a great way to keep track of the quit period and provides motivation too.
- You can see how much money you have saved in this app.
- It shows how many cigarettes you haven't smoked and how many days of your life you have regained.
- It has a unique feature that shows the probable number of cigarettes you have smoked and how much money you've wasted by smoking.
- Quit Tracker: Stop Smoking shows how much money and life expectancy you'll gain if you remain a non-smoker which is really uplifting.
- It has some tips for you and some other features too which you can check out by installing the app.
- Buying the premium version will get you diary statistics, an unlimited number of rewards, custom styling and ad-free usage.
Kwit - Quit smoking for good! takes more of a gamified approach towards quitting smoking. Although most of its features are limited in the free version it's still an awesome app to use. The fact that you can gain XP's for how many days you did not smoke and how many times you didn't light up that cancer stick is a great way to boost your willpower.
- As stated above you can gain XP'S for not smoking in the Kwit app.
- You can see your progress in the dashboard in terms of days, hours, and minutes.
- You can add personal entries like whether you felt like smoking, or you overcame a craving and more with your emotions attached to it. You can also add your reasons behind your reason to relapse. You can then view the statistics in the statistics sections. (like: -energy level, absorbed nicotine, cravings overcome, etc.)
- You can view motivational quotes by shaking the phone, how cool is that now!
- Kwit has an ecology section where you can see how you have affected the environment when you quit like how much water you have saved, the approximate amount of CO2 emission you have prevented, and gives you XP's for it.
- It shows you how much money you have saved and how many cigarettes you have passed.
- Kwit has a daily affirmation section that helps motivate you to quit smoking and other cool features for you to try out.
6. Qwit (Quit Smoking)
Kwit has a cool feature where you can plant trees according to your quit duration. It has most of the features that other apps provide which are mentioned below:-
- It shows when you've quit smoking right in the dashboard.
- It provides you with badges(there are 200 badges)
- It shows how much money you have saved and how many days of your life you've gotten back ever since you decided to be free of tobacco dependence.
- Kwit has a supportive community where users can interact with and motivate each other.
- Kwit shows how many cigarettes you haven't smoked like the other apps mentioned here.
- The app gives you a percentage of how your health has improved since you quit the toxic substance.
- It also shows how many toxic substances a cigarette has and how they negatively affect your health.
- You can your motivations to quit in the motivations section.
7. Quit it - stop smoking today
Quit it - Stop Smoking Today is a tiny little app that helps you quit smoking. Its low storage demand makes it ideal for devices with low storage or for those whose devices are filled with cute pictures of their pets. It'll probably take as much as 20 MB of your disk space, although it's ad-supported the ads are non-intrusive. Its features include:-
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- Like the other apps, it informs you as to how much time it takes till your blood pressure becomes normal, carbon monoxide levels in your blood drop, oxygen levels increase, the risk of heart attack decreases, and the like.
- Quit it shows the time you've been smoke-free right on the dashboard of the app.
- The app Shows how much cigarettes you did not smoke and how much money you managed to save up.
- The app lets you define your own goals. It may be to save up for a cup of joes to buy a smartphone of your choice.
- Quit it lets you share your achievements from the achievement sections.
- Quit it Shows the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide you did not consume by quitting smoking.
- The app shows the benefits of quitting.
8. Quit Now: My QuitBuddy
Quit Now: My QuitBuddy is a nifty little app that helps users quit smoking. It has a rating of 4.7 on the Play Store which has tracking systems to chart your progress and all the facts you need to understand the impact smoking has on your health. Upon installing the app you can use the demo feature to learn about how the app works. Its features include:-
- On the dashboard, you can see the time you've been smoke-free and the money you've saved as a result of it. It shows your achievements
- Quit Now has a section that provides the science behind your addiction in simple terms, tips to quit, and the effect smoking has on the body.
- You can record an inspiring audio message from yourself or your friends, write notes, etc.
- You can add your goals in the add goals section.
- The app lets you add your danger time: the time you might be likely to light up, it'll then send you a reminder to stay strong.
- If you have a craving you can use the Distract Me feature that gives you tasks to distract yourself for the time being.
9. Stop Smoking - quit smoking, b
- You can watch the progress of your achievements in the dashboard.
- Stop Smoking - quit smoking, b has a weekly challenges section that helps you stay motivated.
- Stop smoking has never been easier with the apps integrated tracker. It has a tracker that shows how many cigarettes you've not smoked and how much money you've saved. The tracker also shows how much of your life you have and the time you have regained
- The app has a worldwide community of people like you who want to stop smoking.
- The app's achievement system constantly rewards you for your smoke-free time. You can see how your health constantly improves when you stop smoking. The App can create personal achievements by importing your Amazon Wishlist.
- The app has a built-in diary that shows how your cravings are decreasing over time and that you will not need cigarettes.
- Stop Smoking - quit smoking, b lets you customize your app with profile pictures and color themes.
- You can build your personal achievements by using the achievement generator.
- If you have a weak moment just press the emergency button.
10. Stop smoking with - Flamy
With Flamy you decide how to become smoke-free! You have the choice between two quit programs. If you want to quit slowly, you can choose the "One less every day" program which is a pro version, or you can become a non-smoker immediately with the "14 Day Challenge" which is free. The features the free version has are:-
- Stop smoking with - Flamy shows your time as a non-smoker after you quit smoking in the dashboard in days, hours, minutes, and seconds format.
- It shows how many cigarettes you have not smoked since you quit.
- Flamy shows how many days of your life you have recovered.
- The app shows you your health stats such as:- how percent your blood pressure, blood oxygen level, and heart rate have become normal, your reduced percentage of nicotine dependence, your improved status of mental health, and more.
- You can set a savings goal and reward yourself.
- You can also challenge a friend to bet with you for who can stay smokeless longer.
- You can add your cravings and Flamy will show you the stats accordingly.
- The pro version of Flamy will let you see the achievements you have unlocked.
- It has a section that you can use to motivate yourself, games to distract yourself if you have a craving, tips, and some more features.
11. No Smoking, Stop Cravings
- A dashboard where you can see for how long you haven't smoked in the dashboard
- No smoking shows you the amount of money you've saved in your country's currency(as stated above).
- The app shows you how many days you have regained in your life as well.
- In the smoking stats, you can see how many cigarettes you smoke per day, week, month, and year, how much money you save if you quit smoking, and how many days you regain in your life.
- It has a really supportive community where you can chat with other people.
- It allows you to make plans for quitting smoking
- You can share your statistical data with social media platforms.
- You can unlock all the achievements by quitting smoking. These Achievements will motivate you throughout your journey.
- You can even Share your achievements and celebrate them.
- There are 8 types of breathing exercise patterns available on this app.
Although the ads can be a bit too much sometimes but its definitely worth it for the many features it provides for free.
12. Stop Smoking – Stay Sober
From a cool dashboard to WHO-recommended quitting tips, this app has it all. It has a 4.9 rating on the Play Store and rightly so! The app is free with a paid plan. Its features include:-
- A dashboard where you can see your quit duration, cigarettes not smoked, money saved, life regained by quitting smoking.
- It has a helpful community that'll help you stay strong.
- Stop Smoking – Stay Sober has a lot of good tips on the app.
- It shows your overall smoking data- how many cigarettes you haven't smoked in terms of days, weeks, months, and years and the amount of money and life you have regained accordingly.
- The app shows your achievements and gives you badges for it.
- It has a standard health stat section like the other apps
- This app teaches you breathing exercises to control your cravings.
- It has a helpful tips section on how to find your reason to give up smoking, make your quit plan, and what to do after you quit.
- The interface is visually appealing and easy to use and comes with an app lock and a lot of currency options.
13. Smoking Log - Stop Smoking
Smoking Log - Stop Smoking is more of a free quit smoking tracker app to document your quit journey. Still, we've added this to the list because simply logging your progress can go a long way to help you stay smoke-free. It has a 4.4 rating on the Play Store and contains some basic features like:-
- A dashboard where you can see how much money you have spent, and how much time you've spent smoking.
- It also shows you the total smokes stat and how much smokes you have per day
- Overall it's a great app to log how many cigarettes you smoke per day and to see the amount of money wasted by the act of smoking.
So, these were all the apps and their features explained in detail. You do have to keep in mind that quitting smoking is absolutely doable if you put your mind to it. While all of these apps are great tools at your disposal it's your sheer will and dedication that will help you become a non-smoker.
Some Tips to quit smoking:-
- Always keep a pack of gum with you. If you have an urge to smoke chewing gum might help you beat your cravings
- Drink lots of water and eat healthy meals. Staying hydrated and maintaining a healthy diet will go a long way. Sometimes we mistake being thirsty and hungry for a craving.
- Chewing on a toothpick or a straw helps some people.
- If you miss the hand-to-mouth action you used to get while smoking you can use a plastic straw or a pen to mimic holding a cigarette.
- Chew some mint-flavored gum and take a drag pretending that you are holding a cigarette or do the same with a straw. It mimics the hit a smoker has when they take a drag from their cigarette.
- Take up a hobby that relaxes you.
- Meditate, do yoga, or strength train to be mentally and physically fit and healthy. Exercise is key here as stopping smoking can result in weight gain for some.
- Brush your teeth regularly to get the nicotine stains from your teeth out.
- While quitting smoking keep in mind the health benefits of it, it will help you beat the urges.
- Always get professional help if your nicotine withdrawal symptoms is too much for you to handle. They will take note of any withdrawal symptoms you have and provide solution for it.
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