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Engagement with and Adherence to Digital Health Interventions, Law of Attrition (653) Smoking Cessation (634) mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention (3359) Games and Gamification for Health (789) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (812) Usability of Apps and User Perceptions of mHealth (1203)

Published on in Vol 26 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/57839, first published .
Evaluating the Impact of a Game (Inner Dragon) on User Engagement Within a Leading Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Randomized Controlled Trial

Evaluating the Impact of a Game (Inner Dragon) on User Engagement Within a Leading Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Randomized Controlled Trial

Evaluating the Impact of a Game (Inner Dragon) on User Engagement Within a Leading Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Randomized Controlled Trial

Authors of this article:

Justin S White1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Séverine Toussaert4 Author Orcid Image ;   Bethany R Raiff5 Author Orcid Image ;   Marie K Salem2, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Amy Yunyu Chiang2 Author Orcid Image ;   David Crane7 Author Orcid Image ;   Edward Warrender7 Author Orcid Image ;   Courtney R Lyles8 Author Orcid Image ;   Lorien C Abroms9 Author Orcid Image ;   J Lee Westmaas10 Author Orcid Image ;   Johannes Thrul11, 12, 13 Author Orcid Image
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