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Usability and Acceptability of Two Smartphone Apps for Smoking Cessation Among Young Adults With Serious Mental Illness: Mixed Methods Study

Usability and Acceptability of Two Smartphone Apps for Smoking Cessation Among Young Adults With Serious Mental Illness: Mixed Methods Study

Although Quit Guide and quit START offer many similar features, their design and content differ in a number of ways (Figure 1). Quit Guide offers a relatively linear layout, utilizes darker colors that convey a serious tone, and provides information through text with minimal graphics. Users can type journal entries and can read a text-only guide on how to quit smoking.

Minda A Gowarty, Meghan R Longacre, Roger Vilardaga, Nathan J Kung, Ashley E Gaughan-Maher, Mary F Brunette

JMIR Ment Health 2021;8(7):e26873

Perceptions of Mobile Apps for Smoking Cessation Among Young People in Community Mental Health Care: Qualitative Study

Perceptions of Mobile Apps for Smoking Cessation Among Young People in Community Mental Health Care: Qualitative Study

Participants discussed using the apps to review information about their personal habits (ie, their “stats”), but altering a behavior based on this feedback was rare. For example, a participant using a step tracker said, It was cool, a cool thing. It didn’t really matter because I was working every day and I’d get about the same amount of steps every day.

Minda A Gowarty, Nathan J Kung, Ashley E Maher, Meghan R Longacre, Mary F Brunette

JMIR Form Res 2020;4(10):e19860