SmokeWatch: A smartwatch smoking cessation assistant
Ozgur Akyazi, Sahin Batmaz, Bilgin Kosucu, Bert Arnrich · 2017
Smoking cessation poses a variety of difficulties to smokers, with decreased motivation and awareness being among them. Those specific problems can be addressed by providing persistent motivation and counselling. Considering that the process of smoking cessation usually lasts several weeks, finding a human counsellor for such a prolonged period turns out to be challenging. In this paper, we propose a wearable smoking cessation assistant, SmokeWatch, which monitors its user continuously and detects smoking events. The user is then encouraged to refrain from smoking. We collected data from 26 individuals. We show that our Dynamic Time Warping based smoking detection algorithm has a success rate of 96%. At this stage, we are giving personal advices, e.g. based on the number of detected smoking events we can calculate the money spent for cigarettes.