{"id":283653,"date":"2026-01-14T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283653\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:49:12","slug":"researchers-reveal-effectiveness-of-smartphone-apps-that-claim-to-help-you-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283653\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers reveal effectiveness of smartphone apps that claim to help you quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smartphone apps have been found to help smokers quit. Photo: Stock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/38c582dc-db2e-4567-9f24-ee6566428d15.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Smartphone apps have been found to help smokers quit. Photo: Stock<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Smartphone apps \u2013 particularly those based on psychological theories \u2013 are three times as effective as no or minimal support at helping people who smoke stub out their tobacco use long term, according to a pooled data analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The findings published in the BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine suggested that if high-quality clinical trials can confirm lasting benefits and key features, these apps could become a cornerstone of global tobacco control efforts, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smartphone apps have been found to help smokers quit. Photo: Stock Smartphone apps \u2013 particularly those based on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[381,2271,18,135,19,17,455],"class_list":{"0":"post-283653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eilish-oregan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-technology-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115892831069493515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}