For quitting
Quitting doesn't fail on day one. It fails on day eleven.
The stressful Friday, the one cigarette — and most apps send you back to zero, so why not smoke the whole pack? Committo counts clean days and treats a slip as a short recovery window. Day eleven starts from strength, not from nothing.
You say
“I want to quit smoking”
Committo builds
Health
Stay smoke-free
Choose your target
Taper first: max 2 a day
EasierFully smoke-free
RecommendedSmoke-free — vaping too
ChallengeA slip is a window, not a reset
Confirm your clean days with one tap. If you slip, Committo marks a short recovery window and keeps every clean day you've banked — the record shows a human quitting, not a broken streak.
A live example — the four beats are numbered on the cards. In the app, this screen runs on your data.
1Commit for a cycle
Smoke-free
On trackHealth • 0 cigarettes per day · Week 6 of 12
11 days clean
Current clean streak
26
Longest
Last slip Jul 25
A reset is a datapoint, not a failure. Day one still counts.
2Log it in one tap
Log this week
3 confirmed clean · no slips
3Weeks tell the truth
Consistency
37 of 38 days clean11 days
Current streak
26
Best run
4Your coach notices
Proactive · on real receipts
Day 11 since the slip — and it stayed a single data point. The old evening trigger hasn't bitten since. Keep going ✓
The evidence behind this
We grade what we lean on, and we show the grade. A is settled science; B is real but modest or genuinely contested — we say so rather than quietly leaving it out.
Smoking costs about ten years of life expectancy — the cleanest causal story in all of epidemiology. The hopeful half: quitting before 40 removes about 90% of the excess risk. It is rarely too late for most of the benefit.
ASources and the caveat
Sources
- Doll, Peto et al. 2004, BMJ 328(7455) · doi:10.1136/bmj.38142.554479.AE
- Jha et al. 2013, NEJM 368(4) · doi:10.1056/NEJMsa1211128
The caveat
None that matter. This is the benchmark other claims are graded against.
Across 148 studies and 308,000 people, strong social ties were linked to 50% higher odds of survival — an effect comparable to quitting smoking, and bigger than exercise or weight. That's a meta-analysis, not a wellness blog.
ASources and the caveat
Sources
- Holt-Lunstad, Smith & Layton 2010, PLoS Medicine 7(7) · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
The caveat
Observational; the largest effects come from composite "social integration" measures, not any single behaviour.