Impact of the EILA application on smoking cessation among hospital workers: a randomised controlled trial
Erik Schneider, Wiebke Wanner, Mareike Lüthgen, Dominik Edward Pawlak, Henrike Alexandra Faesser, Kai Mortensen, Daniel Drömann, Tobias Jagomast, Klaas F Franzen · 2026
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Erik Schneider leads a nine-author team trialling, in a 2026 study, a phone app that uses artificial intelligence to help hospital staff stop smoking. Tobacco drives much preventable heart and lung disease, and the trial recruited workers at a German university hospital who smoked and wanted to quit.
Forty-three participants were randomised to the EILA app or a wait-list control resembling primary care support, with crossover after three months. At six months, the chance of still smoking was modestly lower in relative terms, though the range around the estimate was wide. Nicotine dependence scores and a calculated cardiovascular risk score both fell significantly. The authors describe the app as a promising, if small-scale, aid to cessation.
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| CREATOR | Erik Schneider, Wiebke Wanner, Mareike Lüthgen, Dominik Edward Pawlak, Henrike Alexandra Faesser, Kai Mortensen, Daniel Drömann, Tobias Jagomast, Klaas F Franzen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29957 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |