Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation’s Quiet Design Failure

The gap between how nicotine use has evolved and how cessation treatment has evolved is a meaningful part of why quit rates have plateaued.

COPD Diagnosis and Management: The Need for Better Solutions

There is an urgent need to develop solutions that can enable the early diagnosis of COPD as any delays in the diagnosis of COPD represent a missed opportunity to slow disease progression through preventative interventions. Smoking cessation alone could save as many as 120,000 lives per year in the US alone.

Carrot gets FDA nod for over-the-counter use of smoking cessation device

The digital health startup received FDA clearance for its carbon monoxide sensor to be used for smoking cessation without oversight from a healthcare provider.  The expanded indication came after Carrot submitted the results of a single-arm study claiming its device increased people’s motivation to quit smoking. 

Erectile dysfunction startup raises $88M for another hard problem

Ro, previously known as Roman, has raised the new money to launch a smoking cessation vertical called Zero.

Wearables set to bolster smoking cessation treatment efficacy

The increased healthcare benefits facilitated by wearable sensor-derived real-time information can clearly be seen in smoking cessation, the traditional treatment of which is plagued by a number of challenges.

RedBrick Health teams up with Carrot to address smoking cessation

Minneapolis-based RedBrick will offer some of its customers access to Redwood City, California-based Carrot's smoking cessation platform called Pivot. Additionally, RedBrick will have category market exclusivity to market Pivot through 2018.

HeyDoctor’s telemedicine app lets physicians prescribe via text

San Francisco-based HeyDoctor has released a new app that enables providers to prescribe certain treatments through text messaging. Its services currently include everything from acne diagnosis to UTI testing to smoking cessation.

Remote monitoring startup for smoking cessation raises $6M to add caregiving support

Somatix analyzes body motion data from wearables to ascertain a user's physical and emotional state. The smoking cessation program detects whether people are smoking based on hand motions. But the company wants to add new applications

Chrono Therapeutics raises $47.6M for smoking cessation wearable to deliver nicotine fix before you wake

Chrono Therapeutics will use the funding to support clinical trials of the wearable device in the U.S. and Europe to wean smokers off cigarettes using timed delivery of nicotine.