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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Helping people with a little help from our friends

Acknowledgements

Quit Guru would like to acknowledge and thank those who contributed both directly and indirectly to our efforts to help people regain their freedom from addictive substances.

Program development assistance

James Shapiro

Program supervision

Ricky Levin

Data modeling and analysis

Pavel “Big Ben” Zhukovsky

Data modeling and analysis

Vijay Guntur

Algorithm design and validation

Ted Kozlowski

Quality assurance

Research assistance

Samanta Walsch

CBT-based approaches to nicotine addiction treatment

Catherine Jenkins

Smoking cessation with and without assistance

Rachel Moskowitz

Randomized controlled trial assistance

William Soriano

Autonomous motivation for smoking cessation

Xi Zhou

Individual behavioural counselling for smoking cessation

Research references

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  2. García-Pazo P, Fornés-Vives J, Sesé A, Pérez-Pareja FJ. Apps for smoking cessation through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. A review. Adicciones. July 2020, 0(0):1431
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  7. Patrick H, Fujii CA, Glaser DB, Utley DS, Marler JD. A Comprehensive Digital Program for Smoking Cessation: Assessing Feasibility in a Single-Group Cohort Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. December 2018, 18;6(12)
  8. Laude JR, Bailey SR, Crew E, Varady A, Lembke A, McFall D, Jeon A, Killen D, Killen JD, David SP. Extended treatment for cigarette smoking cessation: a randomized control trial. Addiction. August 2017, (8):1451-1459
  9. Spears CA, Hedeker D, Li L, Wu C, Anderson NK, Houchins SC, Vinci C, Hoover DS, Vidrine JI, Cinciripini PM, Waters AJ, Wetter DW. Mechanisms underlying mindfulness-based addiction treatment versus cognitive behavioral therapy and usual care for smoking cessation. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. August 2017, 85(11):1029–1040
  10. Kong G, Larsen H, Cavallo DA, Becker D, Cousijn J, Salemink E, Collot D’Escury-Koenigs AL, Morean ME, Wiers RW, Krishnan-Sarin S. Re-training automatic action tendencies to approach cigarettes among adolescent smokers: a pilot study. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse. 2015, 41(5):425-32

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