Calling All Smokers: Cell Phones Could Help You Quit

Hooked on your cell phone and cigarettes? Fortunately, your mobile device could help you kick the nicotine habit, according to a new review from New Zealand. Researchers led by Robyn Whittaker, a public health physician at the University of Auckland, looked at four studies: two of text-message only programs and two that used the Internet along with mobile phones to keep up a stream of stop-smoking support. “It makes a lot of sense,” Whittaker said.