mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review
mHealth transforms healthcare delivery around the world due to its affordability and right time availability. It has been used for delivery of various smoking cessation programs and interventions over the past decade. With the proliferation of smartphone usage around the world, many smartphone appli...
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| author | Koel Ghorai Shahriar Akter Fatema Khatun Pradeep Ray |
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| description | mHealth transforms healthcare delivery around the world due to its affordability and right time availability. It has been used for delivery of various smoking cessation programs and interventions over the past decade. With the proliferation of smartphone usage around the world, many smartphone applications are being developed for curbing smoking among smokers. Various interventions like SMS, progress tracking, distractions, peer chats and others are being provided to users through smartphone applications. This paper presents a systematic review that analyses the applications of mobile phones in smoking cessations. The synthesis of the diverse concepts within the literature on smoking cessations using mobile phones provides deeper insights in the emerging mHealth landscape. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-62a78a01b1e344209c6ae3e68bb6e6242023-02-02T10:30:48ZengMDPI AGJournal of Personalized Medicine2075-44262014-07-014341242310.3390/jpm4030412jpm4030412mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic ReviewKoel Ghorai0Shahriar Akter1Fatema Khatun2Pradeep Ray3Asia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC), Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business (ASB) Quadrangle Building 1039, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW-2052, AustraliaSchool of Management, Operations and Marketing, Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW-2522, AustraliaAsia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC), Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business (ASB) Quadrangle Building 1039, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW-2052, AustraliaAsia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC), Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business (ASB) Quadrangle Building 1039, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW-2052, AustraliamHealth transforms healthcare delivery around the world due to its affordability and right time availability. It has been used for delivery of various smoking cessation programs and interventions over the past decade. With the proliferation of smartphone usage around the world, many smartphone applications are being developed for curbing smoking among smokers. Various interventions like SMS, progress tracking, distractions, peer chats and others are being provided to users through smartphone applications. This paper presents a systematic review that analyses the applications of mobile phones in smoking cessations. The synthesis of the diverse concepts within the literature on smoking cessations using mobile phones provides deeper insights in the emerging mHealth landscape.http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/4/3/412mHealthsmoking cessationservice design |
| spellingShingle | Koel Ghorai Shahriar Akter Fatema Khatun Pradeep Ray mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review Journal of Personalized Medicine mHealth smoking cessation service design |
| title | mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review |
| title_full | mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review |
| title_fullStr | mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review |
| title_short | mHealth for Smoking Cessation Programs: A Systematic Review |
| title_sort | mhealth for smoking cessation programs a systematic review |
| topic | mHealth smoking cessation service design |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/4/3/412 |
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