Japanese clinical trials confirm that using auxiliary APP can improve smoking cessation

Global Network reporter Wang Huan, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on May 31, Japan's Keio University and medical risk company "CureApp" (Tokyo) announced on the 30th, through the use of a smartphone app to help quit smoking (APP) to conduct clinical trials, confirmed the treatment of patients with nicotine dependence to extend the duration of smoking cessationThe team aims to get the APP approved and applied as soon as next springIt is reported that if the smartphone APP for treatment is approved, it will be a pioneer in Japanthe app's working mechanism is: the patient will be daily physical condition and use the instrument measured in the breath of carbon monoxide concentration and other data into the APP, can be automatically pushed to suit their own situation of medical adviceTime outside the hospital can also be carefully guided, so as to psychologically support patients who are prone to feeling lonely to quit smokingclinical trials were conducted in 31 hospitals across Japan from October 2017 to the end of last yearFor about 570 patients who went to the smoking cessation clinic, they were divided into people who used AP Aids and Treatment app-assisted treatment and people who did not use APP, and after six months the rate of continuous smoking cessation was investigatedIt was found that the rate of continuous cessation of smoking in people using APP was about 64 percent, about 13 percentage points higher than among those who didn't.