Tired of using nicotine patches to quell cigarette cravings? A new mobile app can do that for you by targeting the psychological triggers, which make you want to light up.

厌倦了用尼古丁贴片来抑制吸烟的欲望?一款新的手机应用程序可以帮你做到这一点，它针对的是使你想要吸烟的心理诱因。

The study, published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, noted that the app outweighed online support services in terms of success rate.

这项发表在《尼古丁与烟草研究》(Nicotine and Tobacco Research)上的研究指出，就成功率而言，该应用程序超过了在线支持服务。

The research team hopes it will benefit more people by helping them understand their smoking triggers and quit the habit once and for all.

研究小组希望这能帮助更多的人了解吸烟的诱因，并能彻底地戒掉这个习惯。

We know that quit attempts often fail because urges to smoke are triggered by spending time in places where people used to smoke. This might be while at the pub or at work, for example. Other than using medication, there are no existing ways of providing support to help smokers manage these types of situations and urges as they happen, lead researcher Prof Felix Naughton, from UEA's School of Health Sciences, said in the study, according to Medical Express.

“我们知道，戒烟尝试经常失败，因为在人们曾经吸烟的地方呆上一段时间，就会触发吸烟的冲动。例如，在酒吧或工作的时候。据《医学快报》报道，来自东安格利亚大学健康科学学院的首席研究员菲利克斯·诺顿教授在研究中说:“除了使用药物，目前没有任何方法可以帮助吸烟者控制这些情况和冲动。”

The app's founding father, Dr. Chloë Siegele-Brown from the University of Cambridge, defined Quit Sense as "an AI smartphone app that learns about the times, locations and triggers of previous smoking events to decide when and what messages to display to the users to help them manage urges to smoke in real time."

该应用程序的创始人，剑桥大学的克罗埃·西格尔·布朗博士将Quit Sense定义为“一款人工智能智能应用程序，它可以了解以前吸烟事件的时间、地点和触发点，从而决定何时以及以何种信息显示给用户，来帮助他们实时控制吸烟的冲动。”

Helping people attempting to quit smoking to learn about and manage these situations is a new way of increasing a smoker's chances of quitting successfully.

“帮助试图戒烟的人了解和管理这些情况，是增加吸烟者成功戒烟机会的新方法。”

In the groundbreaking study, 209 smokers were randomly selected for a trial aimed at helping them to quit smoking. As part of the trial, they were sent texts with links to their allocated treatment. All participants were given U.K.'s NHS online stop-smoking support, but only half received the Quit Sense app in addition.

在这项开创性的研究中，209名吸烟者被随机挑选出来参加旨在帮助他们戒烟的试验。作为试验的一部分，他们收到了带有分配治疗方法链接的短信。所有参与者都得到了英国英国国民健康保险制度(NHS)的在线戒烟支持，但只有一半的人另外得到了Quit Sense应用程序。

They were watched over for six months, and then made to complete follow-up surveys online. Those who reported quitting were asked to send their saliva samples for confirmation.

在被观察了6个月，他们在网上完成了后续调查。那些上报戒烟成功的人还要发送他们的唾液样本进行确认。

Naughton said the new technology-based intervention proficiently supported smokers in their journey to dismiss the habit.

诺顿说，这种基于新技术的干预能够有效地支持吸烟者戒烟。

We found that when smokers were offered the Quit Sense app, three-quarters installed it and those who started a quit attempt with the app used it for around one month on average. We also found that four times more people who were offered the app quit smoking six months later compared to those only offered online NHS support, Naughton said.

“我们发现，当向吸烟者提供戒烟意识应用程序时，四分之三的人安装了它，那些开始尝试戒烟的人平均使用了一个月左右。我们还发现，与只提供在线戒烟支持的人相比，获得该应用程序的人在六个月后戒烟的人数要多四倍。”诺顿说。