My QuitBuddy

Department of Health and Aged Care

About this app

Whether you’re thinking about quitting, working up to your quit date or ready to quit now, My QuitBuddy can be customised to suit whatever stage you’re at on your quit journey and help you stay smoke- and vape-free.

My QuitBuddy can help 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 impacts smoking and vaping have on your health.

There is an entire community of buddies there to help you out, with success stories, experiences and handy tips.

Feel good about how much money you’re saving and how much nasty stuff your lungs are avoiding. Over time, watch the savings and results begin to pile up.

All quit journeys are full of ups and downs, depending on how you’re feeling on any given day. On days when your cravings are strong, distractions and soothing imagery are available to help you get through.

Quitting can be hard and most people try a number of times before they finally quit for good.

My QuitBuddy is with you every step of the way.

Don’t quit alone. Download the free My QuitBuddy app today.

Key Features:
'Quit Now', prepare to 'Quit Later' or 'Continue Quitting'.
- Set your goals and understand your motivations to quit.
- Nominate friends or family who you can call in the tough times.
- View your progress, including a count of every day, hour and minute you stay smoke- and vape-free and how much money you've saved.
- For the first 30 days of your journey, you'll receive a helpful tip when you open the app.
- You can nominate any Danger Times and My QuitBuddy will get in touch to keep you on track.
- My QuitBuddy helps with a range of distractions to occupy your mind and your hands through any moments of craving.
- Read helpful messages from other people who are quitting with My QuitBuddy and leave your own for others to read.
- If you need additional backup, you can call the Quitline directly on 13 7848 (13 QUIT) from the app.

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.

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.

It's a nice looking app, and it's got a lot of information. It also has a timer indicating how long since i've had a smoke, and how much i've saved, but it lacks an important feature/option. There's no way to record if, and when i had a smoke, so how can it know what my progress if i can't uodate it? I hope the new version coming next year is more functional, and includes the ability to keep track of our progress, and record when we smoke, maybe recod what we're doing & why we had a smoke.

What’s new

You can now directly choose the game you want to play to distract yourself.

We have also fixed some issues where the text size was too small in certain places and have enhanced the app performance for a smoother journey.

Happy quitting!