Impact of a Novel Smartphone App (CureApp Smoking Cessation) on Nicotine Dependence: Prospective Single-Arm Interventional Pilot Study

Katsunori Masaki   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Hiroki Tateno   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Naofumi Kameyama   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Eriko Morino   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Riri Watanabe   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Kazuma Sekine   ^{5, 6} , MD ;   Tomohiro Ono   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Kohta Satake   ^{8, 9} , MD, MBA, MPH ;   Shin Suzuki   ⁹ , MD ;   Akihiro Nomura   ^{8, 10, 11} , MD, PhD ;   Tomoko Betsuyaku   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Koichi Fukunaga   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

² Department of Internal Medicine, Saitama City Hospital, Saitama, Japan

³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

⁴ Department of General Internal Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

⁵ Akao Clinic, Yokohama, Japan

⁶ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nippon Koukan Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

⁷ Ono Clinic, Kakegawa, Japan

⁸ CureApp Institute, Karuiwaza, Japan

⁹ CureApp Inc, Tokyo, Japan

¹⁰ Innovative Clinical Research Center, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

¹¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan