Quit Now: My QuitBuddy

ANPHA

About this app

My QuitBuddy helps you get, and stay, smoke free. It's with you through the hardest times with helpful tips and distractions to overcome cravings; tracking systems to chart your progress and all the facts you need to understand the impact smoking has on your health.

Better still, My QuitBuddy is easily customised. You can determine whether you’re ready to quit right now or whether you're intending to do so soon or you have already quit. You can set your own goals, the reasons you're quitting, include photos and recordings of loved ones and even add buddies you can call upon in times of need.


Key Features:

- An option to 'Quit Now', prepare to 'Quit Later' or 'Continue quitting'.
- Home dashboard: Visualise the health benefits of each day you stay smoke free through a series of body animations
- My Goals: set your goals and add the support you need to achieve them
- Visual icons: view your progress, including a count of every day, hour and minute you stay smoke free and how much money you've saved
- My Personal Best: Compares your best 'time-off-smoke' records and motivates you to remain smoke free
- Daily Message: for the first 30 days, you'll receive a useful tip when you open the app;
- Danger Times: nominate your danger times and My QuitBuddy gets in touch to keep you on track
- App widget: set it permanently in your phone's dashboard to count every day, hour and minute of your progress. It will also send you a series of scheduled alerts (such as "Congratulations, it's been two weeks!") to keep you on track
- Distract Me: when craving, My QuitBuddy helps with a range of distractions including - a Fruit Sorter game to occupy your mind and your hands through any moments of craving. Fruit Sorter is a juicy distraction game to help occupy both your fingers and mind throughout any moments of craving.
- Remind Me: a personalised slideshow reminds you why you decided to quit and to stay focused on your goal
- Community: read helpful messages from other people who are quitting with the My QuitBuddy and leave your own for others to read
- Quitline: call the Quitline directly on 13 7848 from the app
- Buddy Up: Nominate friends or family who you can call in the tough times

Quitting smoking can be difficult but My QuitBuddy is here to help you every step of the way. Designed to deliver you support in a way best suited to you, for you to get quit and stay quit.

Be sure to update the app regularly as we will continue to add new features based on your feedback.

Ratings and reviews

It's great. The only thing is if it had a "I just smoked button" in the best times section, not on the main (home) page because it might be tempting to give in and smoke. But definitely if you put it in the section where the trophies are, it'd be a good way to motivate to do better next time because you can see how well you've done in the past. And it would be more intuitive than having to go into profile settings and starting your quit date/time over again.

This app is a great way to keep track of your health and other statistics associated with quitting smoking. Unfortunately I find the colour schemes triggering. Most of them remind me of the old coloured cigarette packets. The interface also seems rather outdated given the ease of use of some other apps out there. There is potential to be a high 4s app but like most things, the Australian Government don't really care.

Just starting out on my quit journey - it is inevitable that I will slip up at some point. How can this be recorded in the app? I have found no way to update ACTUAL progress - just a clock the counts from the time yoy select 'Quit Now'. Also, the 'distract me' function consistently crashes the app on the second go, every time. Very disappointing app especially given it's government sponsorship.

What's new

minor bug fixes