PreviewLabs

The MGH Psychiatry News website published an article about the value of Smiling Instead of Smoking (SiS) prototype, which was developed by PreviewLabs for the team of Bettina Hoeppner, PhD at the Health Promotion and Resiliency Intervention Research (HPRIR) Center at Brown University.

MGH Psychiatry News writes about SiS as a tool to help non-daily smokers combat their unhealthy habit.

While most smoking cessation solutions focus on daily smokers, Smiling Instead of Smoking is an app that helps non-daily smokers kick their unhealthy habit. It uses daily positive psychology exercises over the course of seven weeks.

The MGH Psychiatry News website covers the proof-of-concept study that compares the SiS app to other two smoking cessation materials: the National Cancer Institute’s smartphone app QuitGuide, and the National Cancer Institute’s smoking cessation brochure “Clearing the Air”.

Notably SiS participants reported higher self-efficacy in terms of their ability to abstain from smoking at the end of treatment compared to the participants in the other two control groups.

You can read the full article on the MGH Psychiatry News website.