QUIT SMOKING & VAPING LOG
SmokeFree
Quit smoking & vaping tracker
The clock keeps running, even on the day it goes badly.
SmokeFree counts your smoke-free time, what you have not smoked and what you have not spent. It logs cravings and slips without punishing you for either, and every health milestone it shows names the NHS or CDC page it came from.
14-day trial, no card.
From $1.99/month. Android.
A tracker, not a medical product. The health information in SmokeFree is summarised from NHS and CDC public guidance. It is not a medical device or a treatment, and it does not claim to make anyone quit. If you need clinical support, see your doctor or call the smoking-cessation helpline for your country — the app lists them for 16 countries.
Four numbers, and how each one is worked out
Quit apps are full of numbers that flatter you. These are the four SmokeFree shows on the home screen, and this is exactly what sits behind them, so you can decide for yourself how much to trust each one.
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Quit clock
Days, hours, minutes, seconds
Counts up from the quit date and time you set in onboarding. A slip does not reset it — nothing in the app resets it except you changing the date yourself.
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Not smoked
A running count
Your usual daily amount, spread across the elapsed hours, minus every unit you have logged as a slip since the quit date. It is a net figure, not a best case.
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Money saved
In your own currency
Priced from your pack cost and pack size. If the price changes, record it and the app re-prices each period at what it actually cost then, and subtracts slips at the price on that day.
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Life regained
Days and hours
Cigarettes not smoked multiplied by 11 minutes, the figure from a 2000 Tobacco Control paper. It is a population estimate applied to your count, not a prediction about you.
WHAT THE SLIP SCREEN SAYS
A slip is just information. Your streak is yours to keep. No judgement.
Most quit trackers put a reset button in front of you at the worst possible moment, and plenty of people delete the app rather than press it. SmokeFree does not have one. You record how many, optionally tag the trigger from the same list you use for cravings — stress, social, after a meal, boredom, alcohol, morning coffee, driving — and write a line about what was happening. The counters absorb it and carry on.
The button on that screen is labelled "Save — streak continues". It does what it says.
The timeline, with its sources attached
SmokeFree ships thirteen milestones from NHS 111 Wales and the CDC, and dates each one against your own quit time so you can see which have already passed. Every entry carries its source and links out to the page it came from. Here are the first eight, word for word as the app shows them.
- 20 minutes
Your blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal. NHS
- 8 hours
The amount of carbon monoxide and nicotine in your blood will have halved. NHS
- 24 hours
Your body will have got rid of carbon monoxide. Your lungs will start to clear. Your chance of having a heart attack starts to decrease. NHS
- 48 hours
Your body is now nicotine free and your taste and smell will improve. Your nerve endings start to re-grow and you will find walking easier. NHS
- 72 hours
Your breathing will be easier and you will have more energy. NHS
- 2 to 12 weeks
Your circulation and lung function will be better and you will find running easier. NHS
- 3 to 9 months
You should notice a decrease in coughing, sinus congestion, tiredness and shortness of breath. You are also less likely to have a chest infection. NHS
- 1 year
Your risk of a heart attack has now fallen to half of that of a smoker. NHS
The list runs on to 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. If you set your product to vaping, the long-term entries are hidden: those figures were measured for smoking, and showing them to someone quitting a vape would be a claim nobody has evidence for.
The four minutes when it hits
Log the craving in a couple of taps — severity, what set it off, and whether you rode it out or smoked. Then pick something to do with your hands while it passes.
- Ride the wave A four-minute timer with a ring that empties. The premise is only that the craving passes on its own, which is the one thing you do not believe while it is happening.
- 4-7-8 breathing Four cycles of inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8, with the phase counted on screen.
- A short reflection A few CBT-style questions, one per screen, saved to your journal afterwards.
- Call a buddy Dials someone you added in Settings. One tap, no message to compose.
Every craving you log feeds the stats screen: average severity, resisted against smoked, and a 24-hour strip showing which hours are your hard ones. There is also a daily pledge you can take or leave, and undo if you change your mind.
On the phone
Also in there
- Savings goals. Name what the money is for, put a price on it, and watch the bar fill. One goal on the free tier, unlimited with Pro.
- An NRT tracker with a step-down plan. Log patches, gum, lozenges or spray by dose and count, and set the date for the next step down. NRT is never counted as a slip.
- A daily journal. A few lines and an optional mood, kept day by day.
- Quit buddies. Someone to call from the craving screen. One on the free tier, more with Pro.
- Recalibrate. Change your quit date, your daily amount or your price later, and the counters rework themselves around it.
Where your data lives
- On the phone, and nowhere else. The quit profile, cravings, slips, journal, pledges, goals and buddy contacts are stored locally. There is no account and nothing is uploaded.
- Exportable as one file. Settings writes everything to a JSON file you can share to yourself. That is the backup, and it is manual.
- Deletable in one place. Privacy & Data wipes the profile and every log from the device. It says so before it does it, and it cannot be undone.
- No cloud sync, and no PDF yet. Both are on the roadmap and neither ships today. Moving to a new phone means exporting the file first.
- English only for now. The interface has not been translated yet.
Pricing
Everything is open for fourteen days when you install, with no card and no sign-up. The clock, the counters, the milestones, the craving tools and the slip log all stay on the free tier afterwards, with a banner ad. Pro removes the ads and lifts the caps on goals and buddies.
- Nothing is taken away. Everything you have logged stays readable and you can keep logging when the trial ends.
- Lifetime is a single payment. Nothing renews. The app puts it at less than two packs of cigarettes.
Questions
What happens if I smoke one?
You log it. The quit clock keeps running, the slip is subtracted from the cigarettes-not-smoked and money-saved figures, and you can tag what triggered it. The screen says a slip is just information and your streak is yours to keep.
Does it work for vaping?
Yes. You pick your product in onboarding, and the counters use your own units and price. Vape profiles are shown a shorter milestone list, because the long-term NHS and CDC figures were measured for smoking and it would be wrong to present them as vaping outcomes.
Where do the health milestones come from?
From NHS 111 Wales and the CDC. Each milestone in the app names its source and links to it, and the file records the date the wording was last checked. SmokeFree is not a medical product and does not make claims of its own.
Can I track nicotine replacement?
Yes, separately. Log patches, gum, lozenges or spray by dose and count, and set a step-down schedule with a date for the next step. The screen states plainly that NRT use is never counted as a slip.
Does my data leave the phone?
No. Your quit profile, cravings, slips, journal, pledges, goals and buddy contacts are stored on the device. Settings has an export that writes everything to a JSON file you can share with yourself. There is no cloud backup and no account.
Is there support if I need more than an app?
The app carries quitline details for 16 countries, including the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, India and Japan, plus a universal fallback. If you need clinical help, speak to your doctor.
SmokeFree has its own privacy policy covering what stays on the device and what does not.
Set the date and start the clock
Onboarding asks for your product, your usual amount and what it costs. That is enough for every number on the home screen.