Clickotine, a personalized smartphone app for smoking cessation: Initial evaluation

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Iacoviello, Brian M ^a,b   Steinerman, Joshua R ^a   Klein, David B ^a   Silver, Theodore L ^a   Berger, Adam G ^a   Luo, Sean X ^a   Schork, Nicholas J ^a,c  

^a Click Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Smartphone; Smoking cessation; Therapeutics; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029372459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.7226     Document Type: Article

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