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Health App Encourages Calling it Quits
Tech plus mindfulness helps extinguish smoking
A half-century ago, in the Marlboro Man’s heyday, nearly half of American adults smoked. Far fewer light up today, but the 20 percent who do face steep odds when they try to quit: According to the American Cancer Society, only 4–7 percent of efforts to quit smoking succeed without medicines or other assistance. Now, there’s…
Quit Smoking
!–paging_filter–pYes, there’s an app for that too—smokers who prefer gadgets to patches in their quest to quit the habit can reach for their own smartphones and try out any number of apps claiming to help the cause; but one local company is entering the market backed by Fred Hutch research that proves it can work….