A systematic review of smartphone applications for smoking cessation.

ABSTRACT: Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the USA. However, limited data exists regarding smoking cessation mobile app quality and intervention effectiveness. Innovative and scalable interventions are needed to further alleviate the public health implications of tobacco addiction. The proliferation of the smartphone and the advent of mobile phone health interventions have made treatment more accessible than ever. The purpose of this review was to examine the relation between published scientific literature and available commercial smartphone health apps for smoking cessation to identify the percentage of scientifically supported apps that were commercially available to consumers and to determine how many of the top commercially available apps for smoking cessatio

SUBMITTER: Haskins BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5526818 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature