A Context-Sensing Mobile Phone App (Q Sense) for Smoking Cessation: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A major cause of lapse and relapse to smoking during a quit attempt is craving triggered by cues from a smoker's immediate environment. To help smokers address these cue-induced cravings when attempting to quit, we have developed a context-aware smoking cessation app, Q Sense, which uses a smoking episode-reporting system combined with location sensing and geofencing to tailor support content and trigger support delivery in real time.

Objective

We sought to (1) assess smokers' compliance with reporting their smoking in real time and identify reasons for noncompliance, (2) assess the app's accuracy in identifying user-specific high-risk locations for smoking, (3) explore the feasibility and user perspective of geofence-triggered support, and (4) identify any techno

SUBMITTER: Naughton F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045522 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature