A new campaign has been launched through the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter, seeking funding to create a smart pocket lighter.
Quitbit works like car cigarette lighters and is based on the same monitoring principles incorporated into fitness trackers, helping users monitor, reduce or even quit smoking altogether.
Quitbit tracks every time you light a cigarette and records the data in a companion mobile phone app.
Users can create their own personal “smoking plan” – defining the desired smoking rate and setting their own goals: to gradually reduce, or to quit smoking.
Users can see how much money they spend, but also how much money they save by making cuts in the packs of cigarettes they consume.
The smart lighter also measures the time since users last smoked a cigarette, how many they have consumed within a certain period of time, and how many times they have shared a cigarette with a friend (or lent someone the lighter).
Quitbit, which can even sync with e-cigarettes, was developed by two friends who were looking for an easy way to track their quitting process.
