My Change Plan (MCP)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

About this app

My Change Plan helps you quit or reduce smoking cigarettes. It was developed by clinicians and researchers at the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). CAMH is Canada’s leading addictions and mental health treatment and research institution. The App is based on resources developed and curated by the experts at CAMH, and it has been tested with clients who were trying to quit smoking.

In the app you can create a personalized change plan, including your triggers, coping mechanisms, and your motivations for quitting or reducing smoking. You can also identify people who you can reach out to for support, and create a custom support team within the app. With the information you provide, My Change Plan tracks your progress with easy-to-use graphs and statistics. You can choose your end goals, including a quit date or a date to reduce smoking by, so that your Change Plan is in your hands!

My Change Plan allows you to:
• Complete a personalized Change Plan questionnaire
• Log smoking and/or cravings
• Describe personal triggers and coping methods to manage cravings
• Describe personalized motivations for change motivational messages via either text or image or audio clip
• Track how much money you save by changing your smoking
• Track the health benefits you achieve by changing your smoking
• Create a support team that can help you manage your cravings
• Track the time, location, mood, and craving of your last smoke
• Track smoke-free days
• Set up optional alerts to receive facts about smoking, inspiring quotes, reminders to log smoking, etc.
• Learn more about nicotine replacement therapy, nutrition facts, physical activity and other smoking-related behaviours
• Access online resources to further support you with your change plan

*Please note that this app is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This Application is distributed by CAMH; however CAMH has no control over, and makes no representations or warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the use of this application or the use or interpretation of any information stored on this Application.

Ratings and reviews

Just installed application. Setting goals etc. I can't even complete 9 steps for my plan. The application closed 10 times in a row. This is so counter productive. I smoked 2 cigarettes to calm myself.

I downloaded this app in ways of encouraging myself to reduce smoking and then to eventually quit all together. I literally used it for 2 days and I uninstalled it due to the guilt trip type notifications. 'You smoked more than yesterday morning. You can do better.' For someone who always finds it hard to stay motivated, I find these types of comments encourage guilt and shame, which should NOT be the aim at all. I'll find another app to help me. Bye!

I wish the journal entries would allow for more description to figure out the why's for cravings and smoking to document and compare them so we could plan for those events and track progress around those specific things...without going all the way into the plan

What's new

We made improvements to the app in response to user feedback.  Now you can:
·         Easily log days when you have remained smoke-free with the new “I had a smoke-free day” button
·         Log any notes to help keep track of things you did when you had a smoke-free day
·         Track your total smoke free days since creating a personalized Change Plan and when you’re on a smoke-free streak