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Smoking: Qwitter Harnesses Twitter to Help You Quit Smoking 

Jump to full article: LifeHacker (blog), 2008-04-06
Author: Kevin Purdy

Intro:

The only thing worse than constantly reaching for your phone to Twitter at social occasions is a constant need for a nicotine fix, and health organization Tobacco Free Florida must sense their linked nature. Every so often, post an update with the number ("X") of cigarettes you've recently smoked to their Qwitter applet like so:@iquit X. You can also send diary-style entries to chronicle your progress, and see a graph of your cigarette intake at the Qwitter site. For those whose mobile extroversion is a lot stronger than their willpower, it's an elegant craving substitution.

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