VapeTracker: Tracking Vapor Consumption to Help E-cigarette Users Quit
Abdallah El Ali, Andrii Matviienko, Yannick Feld, Wilko Heuten,, Susanne Boll

TL;DR
VapeTracker is a device that attaches to e-cigarettes to monitor vaping behavior, providing feedback to help users quit, based on survey insights into user motivations and cessation needs.
Contribution
We developed VapeTracker, a novel prototype for tracking vaping activity to support e-cigarette users in quitting, informed by survey data on user behavior.
Findings
46.2% of e-cigarette users want to quit
VapeTracker can attach to any e-cigarette device
Future work includes improving feedback mechanisms
Abstract
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.
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Taxonomy
TopicsInnovative Human-Technology Interaction · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Green IT and Sustainability
