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Smokido

Less stress. More progress.

Reduce gradually. Understand your habits. Replace certain automatic patterns. Move forward at your own pace.

Smokido is an app born from real experience, designed to support people who want to gradually regain control over their cigarette consumption — without judgment, without guilt, and without expecting everything to change overnight.

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Smokido overview: “Less stress. More progress.”, four highlights — progress, health, habits and savings — and the app home screen.
A different starting point

What if cutting down didn’t have to start with quitting everything at once?

Quitting smoking is often presented as a clean break: one last cigarette, and then nothing more.

Smokido offers another way forward.

The goal is not to impose the same path on everyone.

Some people may prefer to follow the goals suggested by the app very closely. Others may adapt their pace, move faster on some days, slow down at other times, or gradually develop their own method.

Both ways of using Smokido are valid.

What matters is beginning to move forward more consciously and gradually finding the pace that works for you.

Origin

The story of Smokido

At first, Smokido was never meant to become a public app.

It was not created as a product to sell, but as a personal response to a very real and specific problem.

My son had tried many different methods to quit smoking. Despite his determination, none of them really worked for him in the long term.

After many attempts, he began to look at his smoking differently: the moments when cravings appeared, the habits that came with them, the automatic patterns of everyday life, and above all, how difficult it was to try to change everything at once.

From his own experience, he came up with a different approach: instead of seeing every cigarette only as something that had to be eliminated, he began to gradually increase the time between cravings and replace certain automatic habits with different actions.

He then created the first version of Smokido, simply for himself.

A personal tool built around his daily life, his habits, and his own pace.

Little by little, this approach began to change the way he experienced cigarette cravings.

Then I decided to try it myself.

First-hand · Tamari

My experience with Smokido

At first, my goal was not even to quit completely.

Simply reducing how much I smoked already felt like a real relief.

I used Smokido for several months, but I did not follow it like a rigid program.

I listened to how I felt.

I adjusted my pace.

At certain times, I reduced the number of cigarettes I smoked. At other times, I smoked a little more.

I did not see that as a failure.

I simply kept observing, adjusting, and moving forward.

Over time, however, something had started to change.

Smoking had become less automatic.

Some cravings could wait.

Others could be replaced with an activity.

New actions had started to find their way into my daily life.

Then one day, while I was still smoking around 18 cigarettes a day, I felt something different.

I had not set that date in advance.

I had not given myself an ultimatum.

I simply felt ready to stop completely.

And I did.

For me, that was the essential difference: I did not feel as though I was fighting against myself.

The decision had become clear.

I had gradually changed my relationship with some of the habits connected to smoking, and when the moment came, I was able to make that decision with much more peace of mind.

This experience is one of the reasons Smokido exists today.

But it remains my personal experience, not a promise of the same result for every user.

The principle

Another way to move forward

Smokido is built around four simple steps.

01

Understand

Observe your consumption.

Notice when cravings appear.

Gradually identify the situations that often come back: coffee, a break, stress, after a meal, boredom, or certain times of day.

The first change can simply begin with awareness.

02

Space them out

Smokido allows you to gradually increase the time between cigarettes with goals that can evolve with you.

You do not have to move forward perfectly.

You can adjust your pace.

Reduce more when it feels natural.

Slow down when you feel the need.

Then continue again.

Your journey does not have to be linear to be meaningful.

03

Replace

This is one of Smokido’s most important principles.

When a craving appears, the app does not simply ask you to resist it.

It can invite you to do something else.

  • Go for a walk.
  • Breathe.
  • Meditate.
  • Drink a glass of water or herbal tea.
  • Read.
  • Listen to music.
  • Do a few exercises.
  • Go outside.
  • Call someone.
  • Or create your own activity.

Replace rather than simply resist

The “Replace this cigarette” button has a central role in Smokido.

Why?

Because a cigarette can also be connected to a whole sequence of actions and moments that have become automatic.

A break. A coffee. Going outside. A few minutes after a meal. A stressful moment. A journey or commute.

Smokido is designed to help gradually interrupt some of these automatic sequences.

The “Replace this cigarette” screen: a five-minute timer and a grid of healthy activities to choose from, such as drinking water, walking, breathing, meditating and reading.

When a craving appears, choosing an activity creates a new space between the craving and the usual action.

The timer then helps you actually move into action.

This small change may seem simple.

But when repeated over time, it can also help you pay more attention to how you use your time and how you organise your daily life.

A yoga session running in Smokido: a timer showing fourteen minutes remaining and a message of encouragement.
What comes into daily life

What if a new habit could take the place of an old one?

This is where, in our view, Smokido goes beyond simply tracking cigarettes.

Replacing a cigarette with a walk does not only mean “not smoking for a few minutes.”

You went for a walk.

Replacing a craving with ten minutes of reading means that you actually read.

Choosing to meditate means that a few minutes of meditation genuinely became part of your day.

Exercising, drinking more water, going outside, writing, learning, breathing, or listening to music gradually become real actions rather than simply good intentions.

And these activities can be fully personalised.

You can create activities that reflect the person you are today — but also the person you would gradually like to become.

Smokido is therefore not only about removing something from your daily life.

It can also help you bring something new into it.

And gradually, a daily life that looks more like the one you want to build.

04

Progress

Day after day, Smokido helps you see what is changing.

Not only the number of cigarettes you smoke.

But also the cigarettes avoided. The time between certain cigarettes. The money saved. The time regained. The activities completed. The situations that regularly trigger certain cravings. And the new habits that are beginning to appear.

The goal is not to compete with yourself.

It is to make visible the changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Progress screen: 95% fewer cigarettes today, favourite activities, triggers, cigarettes avoided and money saved.

Every small step matters

Smokido is here to support you, not to judge you.

A difficult day does not erase the days that came before it.

One extra cigarette does not turn your entire journey into a failure.

A period of slowing down does not mean you are back at the starting point.

The app allows you to keep observing, understanding, and moving forward.

At your own pace.

Smokido’s “I smoked” screen: the app asks without judgment what triggered the craving and helps you continue.
After a cigarette, the app asks what triggered it, without judgment.

An app designed to be enjoyable to use

A tool you use regularly should also feel pleasant to open.

That is why we have paid close attention to the Smokido experience.

And Puff, Smokido’s little companion, who stays with you throughout the journey without ever turning that support into judgment.

The aim is for the app to become a natural part of everyday life rather than another obligation.

What becomes visible

What Smokido can help you observe

Your consumption

Follow how it changes over time.

Cigarettes avoided

See the moments when a cigarette was replaced or avoided.

Money saved

Gradually understand the financial impact of reducing your consumption.

Time regained

Give new value to the minutes that are no longer spent on certain cigarettes.

Your triggers

Identify the situations that most often appear around your cravings.

Your new habits

See which activities are gradually beginning to take a real place in your daily life.

Smokido savings screen: money saved this week, total saved since the beginning, and the equivalent in packs avoided.

Gradually preparing to quit

Smokido does not force you to immediately choose a quit date.

It can first support you through another stage: preparing yourself for change.

For some people, the goal may remain simply to reduce their cigarette consumption.

For others, gradually cutting down, increasing the time between cigarettes, understanding their triggers more clearly, and building new habits may eventually lead them to consider quitting completely.

That is what happened in my case.

I did not start using Smokido with the certainty that I would quit.

I started by reducing.

Then I changed my pace.

Then some of my habits.

And eventually, the decision to stop came when I felt ready.

Smokido does not decide that moment for you.

It gives you tools to better understand your consumption and gradually build your own path.

Smokido’s Health screen: the benefits that gradually appear after your last cigarette.
The project today

A family story that became a project

After our experience, the way we looked at Smokido changed.

Something that had originally been created to meet a personal need might also be useful to other people who do not identify with a harsh or guilt-driven approach to reducing smoking.

So we decided to develop Smokido further.

Make it more complete. Simpler. More enjoyable to use.

But without losing what had been at its heart from the beginning.

An approach born from real experience, designed to help people move forward gradually, without judgment and at their own pace.

Smokido was not created with the promise of a miracle solution.

It grew out of a family experience, repeated attempts, observations, and small steps of progress that, added together, eventually changed a great deal.

Everyone has their own pace

There is no single way to use Smokido.

You can follow the recommendations and goals suggested by the app very closely.

You can also adapt them.

What matters is finding a way of moving forward that you can genuinely integrate into your life.

Your best pace is the one
that allows you to keep going.

An experience, not a promise

Our story is real.

But every person, every dependence, every habit, and every journey is different.

Our experience with Smokido therefore does not constitute a promise that everyone will achieve the same result.

Smokido is a wellness and personal support tool.

It does not replace the advice, diagnosis, or treatment of a healthcare professional.

Privacy

We also designed Smokido with careful attention to privacy.

You can read the app’s Privacy Policy in your preferred language:

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Tamari

Mother, author and co-founder. She lives in Lyon and writes about France, travel, immigration and life — as she sees it.

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Smokido is built around one simple idea: lasting change can begin with one small action.

Then another.

And sometimes, without having to turn everything upside down all at once, those small changes end up transforming far more than we first imagined.

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