A.I. chatbot helps smokers quit tobacco: HealthLink

Fred Hutch Cancer Center launched its app, called QuitBot, to help smokers kick the habit.

SEATTLE — Seems like there is an app for just about everything these days, including one that’s now helping people quit smoking. Only this one uses artificial intelligence to help quitters walk through it.

“This app is a comprehensive program for helping a person quit cigarette smoking,” said Dr. Jonathan Bricker, a psychologist and a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 

Bricker and his team developed an app called QuitBot to guide a person through the notoriously difficult task of quitting smoking.

“We chose smoking because in the 25 years that I have

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