VapeTracker: Tracking Vapor Consumption to Help E-cigarette Users Quit
This is incremental work aimed at helping e-cigarette users quit through behavioral tracking.
The study addressed the need for e-cigarette cessation by designing VapeTracker, a prototype that attaches to devices to track vaping activity, based on a survey finding that 46.2% of users want to quit.
Despite current controversy over e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid, we present early work based on a web survey (N=249) that shows that some e-cigarette users (46.2%) want to quit altogether, and that behavioral feedback that can be tracked can fulfill that purpose. Based on our survey findings, we designed VapeTracker, an early prototype that can attach to any e-cigarette device to track vaping activity. We discuss our future research on vaping cessation, addressing how to improve our VapeTracker prototype, ambient feedback mechanisms, and the future inclusion of behavior change models to support quitting e-cigarettes.