The Impact of Digital Health on Smoking Cessation.

Background: Smartphones have become useful tools for medicine, with the use of specific apps making it possible to bring health care closer to inaccessible areas, continuously monitor a patient's pathology at any time and place, promote healthy habits, and ultimately improve patients' quality of life and the efficiency of the health care system. Since 2020, the use of smartphones has reached unprecedented levels. There are more than 350,000 health apps, according to a 2021 IQVIA Institute report, that address, among other things, the management of patient appointments; communication among different services or professionals; the promotion of lifestyle changes related to adopting healthy habits; and the monitoring of different pathologies and chronic conditions, including smoking cessation.

Development, validation and transfer to clinical practice of a mobile application for the treatment of smoking.

Objective: The main objective is to transfer to clinical practice a new smoking cessation application ("Vive sin Tabaco" a) in all health centers of the public Basque Health Service.

Design: An implementation study of a smoking cessation program previously validated. After implementation, a retrospective study has been carried out to evaluate its use under normal conditions.

Corrigendum: Effectiveness of mobile applications to quit smoking: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of text messaging to support health advice for smoking cessation.

Background: Smoking in one of the most serious public health problems. It is well known that it constitutes a major risk factor for chronic diseases and the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Due to high prevalence of smokers, new cost-effective strategies seeking to increase smoking cessation rates are needed.

Effectiveness of mobile applications to quit smoking: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable mortality. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially, becoming a powerful tool to be used in health care.

Methods: In order to assess the effectiveness of mobile phones to quit smoking, we have carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials evaluating interventions based on mobile applications for smartphones, that were not a smaller version of the same application, against other types of therapy.