VapeTracker: Tracking Vapor Consumption to Help E-cigarette Users Quit

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.