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SynthesisTranslational behavioral medicine2017

A systematic review of smartphone applications for smoking cessation.

Brianna L Haskins, Donna Lesperance, Patric Gibbons, Edwin D Boudreaux

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Synthesis in Translational behavioral medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04502004 (Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 142 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04502004 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients: Efficacy of an Intensive Intervention Program Using an App

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of the Balearic IslandsRan2019 to 2021Enrolled116ConditionsHospitalized Smokers, CBT, Smoking Cessation, MhealthArmsApp for health=mhealth
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

142 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Smoking Cessation Apps: A Systematic Review of Format, Outcomes, and Features.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  9. The Efficacy of the SinHumo App Combined With a Psychological Treatment to Quit Smoking: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  18. NoFumo+: A Clinical Trial of an mHealth for Smoking Cessation with Hospitalized Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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82 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Brianna L HaskinsDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA. brianna.haskins@umassmed.edu.
Donna LesperanceDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
Patric GibbonsDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
Edwin D BoudreauxDepartments of Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry, and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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 cessation were supported by the published scientific literature. Adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, apps were reviewed in four phases: (1) identified apps from the scientific literature, (2) searched app stores for apps identified in the literature, (3) identified top apps available in leading app stores, and (4) determined which top apps available in stores had scientific support. Seven articles identified six apps with some level of scientific support, three (50%) were available in at least one app store. Conversely, among the top 50 apps suggested by each of the leading app stores, only two (4%) had any scientific support. While half of the scientifically vetted apps remain available to consumers, they are difficult to find among the many apps that are identified through app store searches.

Indexed as

Mobile ApplicationsSmartphoneSmoking CessationTelemedicineHumansSmokingeHealthMobile healthSmartphone applicationTobacco cessation

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PMID28527027
PMCPMC5526818

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