The Stopcoach app helps you to stop smoking. And stopped staying. Choose your own coach that will give you support when you are having a difficult time.

The app shows you how many days you have stopped, how many cigarettes you have not smoked and how much money you have already saved.

Your personal coach regularly sends you messages to keep you motivated and to support you if you are struggling. You will also be helped with tips, videos, personal stories and information about how good it is for you to stop smoking.

At times when you find it difficult to stay stopped, you can look at the "Tips and exercises" in the app for extra help.

The Stopcoach helps you prepare well for stopping, to stop in a good way and to keep stopping. With the Stopcoach you have your own personal coach who guides you on the way to becoming a non-smoker.

IN THE STOPCOACH APP:
- Choose your own coach that helps you with tips, videos, personal stories and information
- Start well: the app helps you prepare well for quitting smoking
- Get counseling for 8 weeks when stopping
- Easily keep track of how many days you stopped, how many cigarettes you have not smoked and how much money you have saved
- Stay motivated by messages from your coach
- Earn stars by staying stopped

WHEN CAN YOU USE THE APP?
- If you live in one of the municipalities where the pilot of this app is running: Goeree, Hulst, Roermond, Stadskanaal or Weststellingwerf and if the app has been recommended to you by your care provider.
- If you want to quit smoking cigarettes. The app is not optimized for people who smoke tobacco or pipe tobacco.

BACKGROUND STOPCOACH APP
“The Stopcoach” app has been developed for and with smokers with a lower socio-economic status, so that it best meets the needs of the group of smokers who need help with quitting the most. The Stopcoach is based on the theory-based and effectively proven "StopAdvisor" intervention, which was developed and researched in England under the direction of researchers from University College London.

The Dutch app The Stop Coach has been developed by the Leiden University Medical Center, Pharos and the Trimbos Institute, in collaboration with Brthrs Agency.