iSmoke: a quit-smoking app that counts down to your next cigarette
Undo the smoking habit at your own pace. Cut down a bit at a time, quit cold turkey on a date you choose, or hold steady at a daily limit. Log a cigarette in one tap, and a countdown shows when your next one is due.
Cut down a bit at a time, quit cold turkey, or hold a steady limit — your call. Log a cigarette in one tap and everything else follows: your streak, the money you are keeping, and a health-recovery timeline that update on their own. And when a craving lands, iSmoke tells you how long until your next one, then hands you something to do while you wait.
The clock decides, not the craving.
Counting down to your next cigarette sounds odd for a quit app. This is why iSmoke does it.
- A craving peaks and passes, usually in 3 to 5 minutes.
- When a craving decides when you smoke, it learns to ask again.
- Your plan picks the time, not the craving. The countdown shows you when.
- As your daily number steps down, the gaps between cigarettes get longer.
- A craving before the timer? Distract Me gives you something to do for those few minutes.
- A slip is logged, not punished. The day carries on.
Cutting down, the countdown, and Free and Pro
Short answers to the questions people ask before they download a quit-smoking app.
Quit smoking gradually instead of cold turkey
iSmoke has a plan for cutting down a bit at a time instead of stopping all at once. You tell it roughly how many cigarettes you smoke a day, and it plans a little less each day until your quit date.
Research on quitting finds that gradual and abrupt approaches both work, so there is no single right way. If you would rather stop on a set date, choose cold turkey. If you want to hold a steady daily limit first, choose maintain. You can switch plans later in Settings.
The plan adjusts as you go, and it rebuilds from your real logged days whenever you ask.
How the countdown to your next cigarette works
iSmoke counts down to your next cigarette instead of counting up from your last one.
On a plan for cutting down or a steady daily limit, the Today screen shows how long until your next cigarette, and a reminder can tell you when it is due.
The countdown is a schedule, not a rule. If you smoke earlier, log it and the day carries on. On a cold-turkey plan, or once your daily target reaches zero, there is nothing to count down to, and Today shows how long you have been smoke-free instead.
Who iSmoke is for
Adults who smoke and want a plan they can follow at their own pace: people who want to cut down before they stop, people who have tried stopping all at once and want a different approach, and people who simply want to see how many cigarettes they smoke and when.
iSmoke is a wellness and habit-tracking app, not a medical treatment. It is support, not a replacement for your doctor, pharmacist, or a quitline. Settings has a quitline page with one-tap numbers for the US, UK, Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and a way to find yours everywhere else.
It runs on iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play). There is no account to create: iSmoke sets up an anonymous profile on first launch.
Free and Pro
The tracker is free: logging, your plan and quit date, the calendar and your awards are never behind a paywall.
iSmoke Pro is for the hard part, the craving itself: an AI coach you can talk to in the moment, the full craving toolkit (breathing, urge surfing, a timer and your own activities), and the patterns behind your habit, like the hours you smoke most and how your gaps grow. Try it month by month with Monthly, or choose Annual for a lower price per month. Your price is shown in the app before you subscribe.
What iSmoke does
iSmoke gives you three ways to work toward quitting: cut down a bit at a time on a plan made for you, quit cold turkey on a date you choose, or hold steady at a daily limit while you get ready. One tap logs a cigarette, a countdown tells you when your next one is due, and your streak, savings, and health-recovery timeline keep themselves up to date.
Three ways to quit — you choose
Cut down a little each day on a plan made for you, quit cold turkey on a date you set, or maintain a steady daily limit. No single approach is forced on you.
Log in one tap, never lose progress
Log a cigarette in one tap, undo a mistake, or backdate an entry — your streak, savings, and health-recovery timeline update automatically, and a lapse never erases what you have already earned.
Know when your next one is due
iSmoke counts down to your next cigarette, so a craving has an answer that is a wait, not a flat no.
Something to do instead of smoking
A craving toolkit that opens in one tap: a countdown, guided breathing, an urge-surfing script, a quick memory game, and your own list of things to do — ranked by what has actually worked for you before.
Watch the money turn into something real
Every cigarette you do not smoke banks its price. Name what you are saving toward — a guitar, a trip, new headphones — and watch the bar fill instead of staring at an abstract number.
See when you are most likely to smoke
Your patterns by hour and by weekday, your median gap between cigarettes, your longest smoke-free stretch, and how long you last after waking. Knowing 3pm on a Wednesday is your moment is half the work.
Frequently asked questions
How do I cut down smoking gradually?
Cut down a bit at a time: count every cigarette, smoke a little less each day, and pick a quit day. In iSmoke, choose the plan for cutting down and tell it roughly how many cigarettes you smoke a day. It plans a little less each day until your quit day, and a countdown shows when your next cigarette is due. A Cochrane review found that neither cutting down first nor stopping all at once gave better long-term quit rates than the other, so there is no single right way to quit.
What app can I use to count my cigarettes?
iSmoke counts cigarettes. Log each one with one tap, and the app keeps today's count and a calendar of every day you have logged. To count without cutting down yet, choose the plan that holds a steady daily limit; there is no quit date until you want one. iSmoke is on iPhone and Android.
Is there a quit smoking plan that adjusts as you go?
Yes. iSmoke's plan is not a fixed schedule: it keeps adjusting as you go, using what you log, and it rebuilds from your real logged days whenever you ask. Good days earn you slack for a bad one, and a slip is logged, not punished. Your smoke-free days keep counting.
Can I cut down gradually with iSmoke instead of quitting cold turkey?
Yes. Choose the plan for cutting down, and iSmoke plans a little less each day until your quit date, starting from how much you smoke now. If you would rather stop on a set date, choose cold turkey. To hold a steady daily limit first, choose maintain. You can switch plans later in Settings.
Does iSmoke tell me when my next cigarette is due?
Yes. On a plan for cutting down or a steady daily limit, iSmoke counts down to your next cigarette instead of counting up from your last one, and a reminder can tell you when it is due. The countdown is a guide, not a rule: if you smoke earlier, log it and the day carries on.
Can I use iSmoke just to track how many cigarettes I smoke?
Yes. Choose maintain, set a daily limit you are comfortable with, and log each cigarette in one tap. There is no quit date until you want one. With iSmoke Pro, your history also builds into patterns: the hours and weekdays you smoke most, the typical gap between cigarettes, and your longest smoke-free stretch.
Is iSmoke available on iPhone?
Yes. iSmoke is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android. It is made by Pixelmate Labs.
Where can I download iSmoke?
iSmoke is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Use the store buttons on the iSmoke homepage for the latest listing.
Do I need to create an account?
No. iSmoke creates an anonymous profile for you automatically on first launch, so you can start logging right away with no sign-up.
Which quit plan should I choose: cutting down, cold turkey, or maintain?
Research on quitting finds that gradual and abrupt approaches can both work, so there is no single right way to quit. Cutting down plans a little less each day until your quit date, cold turkey lets you pick a date and stop from there, and maintain tracks a steady daily limit with no quit date required. Pick whichever fits your life; your plan keeps adjusting as you go either way.
What is in the craving toolkit?
A three-minute countdown, guided 4-7-8 breathing with haptic cues, a self-scrolling urge-surfing script, a memory game for when you cannot step away, and your own list of activities — the things you already do, sized to the time you have. A conversation with the AI coach is one tap from any of them.
How does iSmoke know which activity to suggest?
It ranks your own activities by what has actually worked for you before. Once you have logged a few attempts, the things that got you through a craving move up the list, and iSmoke also factors in how much time you have and where you are — it will not suggest a walk at 2am. It never suggests the same thing twice in a row.
What happens when the timer reaches zero?
It asks whether you want longer. iSmoke never tells you the craving is over or congratulates you for beating it — most cravings fade in three to five minutes, and you can add two more for as long as you need.
Is iSmoke a habit tracker?
Yes, built for one habit: smoking. It learns your pattern from what you log, then helps you undo it step by step: a schedule that spaces cigarettes out, a countdown to the next one, and progress that stays even on a hard day.
What does iSmoke Pro include?
The AI coach for craving conversations and plan questions, the full craving toolkit, deeper insights such as your patterns by hour and weekday and your longest smoke-free stretch, and charts and stats beyond the last 7 days.
How much does iSmoke Pro cost?
iSmoke is free to download. Try iSmoke Pro month by month with Monthly, or choose Annual for a lower price per month. Your price is shown in the app before you subscribe.
Is the AI coach a real conversation?
Yes. The coach is a live, server-backed conversation powered by Gemini, an AI system from Google — not a set of canned replies.
What does the coach send to Google?
A consent screen explains this before anything is sent. Google receives your message, the few messages before it, and a short summary of your plan (mode, day, today's count, target, and streak). If you agree on that screen and keep "Use my details in coach replies" on in Settings, the coach also gets a summary built on your phone: your reason for quitting, your answers from setup, the triggers you named and the ones you log most (including ones you added), your busiest times, your recent daily totals against your targets, how your cravings went, and the activities that have helped you. It never includes individual log entries or their times, and the app never adds your account identifier. Turn the switch off and the coach gets only your messages and the plan summary. The short suggestions under Stats insight cards, labelled "Suggested by your AI coach", are written only with that same agreement and the switch on: Google receives the facts behind that card and the same summary. You can report any coach reply, and hide or report any suggestion. A report sends us the text of that reply or suggestion and the few details the Privacy Policy lists, never your own message. It is stored without your account ID and deleted after 180 days. Apart from reports, your conversation and your log stay on your phone, not on our servers. Google may keep what it receives for a limited time under its own terms; the Privacy Policy explains how long. You can turn coach chat off any time in Settings.
Is the coach a medical professional?
No. The coach is a craving-support and plan-question tool, not medical advice. If you are considering nicotine replacement therapy or have questions about withdrawal, talk to a doctor or pharmacist.
What happens if I log a cigarette after a streak?
A lapse is not a failure, and iSmoke never wipes your progress over one cigarette. Your streak is designed to recover, and the money you have saved and the smoke-free days you have already logged do not disappear.
Does iSmoke provide quitline numbers?
Yes. Settings has a quitline page with a one-tap number for the US, UK, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a quick way to find your local quitline everywhere else.
How do I contact the team?
Use the iSmoke Contact page or email ismoke@pixelmatelabs.com for support, feedback, or app-store issues.
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