GeekWire Radio: Using a smartphone to help overcome your bad habits

Can your smartphone assist you stop smoking, or cease overeating?

Sure, in keeping with our visitor this week on the GeekWire radio present. We’re joined within the studio by Jonathan Bricker, PhD., a behavioral scientist on the Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Analysis Heart and led the primary randomized, managed trial evaluating the effectiveness of smoking cessation apps.

His analysis is the premise for a smartphone app known as “SmartQuit,” being developed by Seattle startup 2Morrow Inc. below an unique licensing settlement with Fred Hutch, introduced this week. The undertaking has landed a $250,000 grant from the Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund, and the app is slated to be launched later this yr by way of firms, well being plans and states.

Bricker talks with us in regards to the plans for the app and different potential purposes of the know-how sooner or later, together with strategies of serving to individuals cease overeating. He additionally offers us his tackle wearable units, health-related apps, and different ways in which know-how is aiming to make individuals extra wholesome.

The dialogue with Bricker begins within the second section, on the 8:00 mark, following our weekly information roundup. Subjects this week embrace Amazon’s enlargement of same-day supply, a actuality TV star’s determination to maneuver her on-line schooling startup from New York to Seattle, and Redfin founder David Eraker’s new actual property startup.

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