Quit smoking by becoming someone who doesn’t.

Most quit-smoking apps count days for you. This one spends its first week helping you become someone for whom smoking does not fit — naming the old story, choosing the values underneath it, writing your future self down and looking at their face. The tracking, the health timeline and the craving tools are all still there; they just sit on top of an identity rather than on top of willpower.

Recovery starts within twenty minutes, when your heart rate normalises. Carbon monoxide clears within twelve hours, taste and smell sharpen after two days, breathing eases after three, and circulation improves within two weeks. At one year your heart disease risk is halved, at five years your stroke risk matches a non-smoker's, and at ten years your lung cancer risk is halved. The app tracks all thirteen of these milestones against your own quit date.

An individual craving usually peaks within a few minutes and passes whether or not you smoke — which is exactly why a 76-second breathing exercise is long enough to be useful. Cravings become less frequent over the first few weeks, though specific triggers can surface much later. The app logs each one so you can see the frequency falling instead of guessing.

You keep your progress. Recording a slip applies an honest penalty to your smoke-free clock rather than resetting it to zero, because a single cigarette does not undo three weeks. There is an achievement for coming back, and the app treats the slip as information about a trigger you have not planned for yet.

No. The app works alongside nicotine replacement therapy or medication if you are using them, and works on its own if you are not. It is a behavioural tool, not a medical product, and it does not prescribe, dose or replace advice from a doctor or a quitline.

Yes. At the start you say what you are quitting, and if it is a vape, pouches or nicotine replacement you get a flow built around that instead of cigarettes — your own product and strength, a step-down ladder that lands on zero on a date you choose, and a plan that ends with no nicotine rather than with a switch to something else. It is the case almost nothing on the market covers: of the people who quit smoking with an e-cigarette, around eighty per cent are still vaping a year later.

No. Getting Over Smoking is a self-help tool. If you want clinical support, the app includes a directory of national quitlines for every language it ships in, and we would rather you called one than not.

The app is fully translated into 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Japanese — including the health milestones and the quitline directory.

Yes. It runs in the browser on any device and installs to your home screen as a progressive web app, so it behaves like a native app without an app store in the way.

At launch, €6.99 a month, €59.99 a year, or €99 once and it is yours for good — after a 7-day free trial that does not ask for a card. For most smokers a month of it costs less than two days of cigarettes.

The app is finished and being tested with a small group before it opens to everyone. Join the launch list and we will email you the day public sign-up opens.