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>>Narrator: Do you want to quit or reduce smoking?
Stay Quit Coach 2.0 is a free tool designed to help you reduce or quit
cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, cigars, and chewing tobacco.
The app helps you track your progress,
develop coping plans, and practice safe and effective stress management tools.
Let’s explore the main features of the app.
First, set up your user profile. If you’d like, you can set a pin lock for added privacy.
Select whether you smoke cigarettes,
cigars, use chewing tobacco, or e-cigarettes, pens, and/or pods.
Now set your goal to quit, reduce your tobacco use, or stay quit.
Next, enter your target date for quitting and how much you typically smoke or use per day.
Be sure to include the price per product so that you can track how
much money you save by quitting or reducing your tobacco use.
Track your daily usage in the app. You can always add your details later if you forget to log a day.
The app will display your progress over time and
the amount of money you’ve saved to date by reducing tobacco use.
Turn on notifications to start receiving daily messages of support
after you have used the app for a few days.
These alerts will show up on your phone’s home screen and help motivate you to stay on track.
The “tools” section helps you create a coping plan,
practice controlled breathing, and get support when you need it.
Coping plans will help you identify external triggers that make you want to use tobacco,
like drinking coffee or driving; emotional triggers like feeling tired or bored;
or physical triggers like withdrawal symptoms.
Once you’ve identified these triggers, use the app to set up your coping strategies using the Avoid,
Alter, Replace, or Mentally Cope methods.
>>Graphic: Image of a cell phone using the Avoid coping strategy of the Stay Quit Coach 2.0 app
>>Narrator: You can also use the app for a guided, controlled breathing exercise,
which is a safe and effective stress management tool.
>>Graphic: A cell phone displaying the Controlled Breathing feature of the Stay Quit Coach 2.0 app
>>Narrator: If you need support at any point during your journey to stay quit, you can directly access
the Veterans Crisis Line and the Veterans Quit Line through the Tools section.
The “Resources” section provides information to help you quit,
reduce, or stay quit, such as the benefits of quitting on your physical and mental health.
You can also access additional free online smoking cessation
resources and tips for additional support.
Keeping track of your reasons to quit, reduce, or stay quit, can be a helpful tool in your journey.
Log your top reasons to change and track them in the app.
>>Graphic: A cell phone showing and filling in reasons to quit smoking in the Stay Quit Coach 2.0 app
>>Narrator: Add any medications you are using to help yourself quit, like nicotine gum or a nicotine patch.
Stay on track by setting reminders as needed.
>>Graphic: A cell phone showing how to set a reminder in the Stay Quit Coach 2.0 app
>>Narrator: Whether your goal is to quit, reduce, or stay quit, Stay Quit Coach 2.0 can help.
The app is free, secure and easy to use.
Your data stays on your device unless you choose to share it.
It is not intended to replace professional counseling or medications to support quitting.
Download Stay Quit Coach 2.0 today to start quitting or stay quit.
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