UOP Student develops Smoking Cessation App!
Sunny Nagra, a student
pharmacist at the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the
University of Pacific, recently developed a Smoking Cessation Application (http://www.kickspy.com/projects/snagra/quit-smoking-ios-app-and-research-project)
that was featured on the Pharmacy Times! Here’s a direct excerpt from the
developer himself:
“…I get exposed to a lot of patients at our free
health fair outreach events and in the pharmacy. This allows me to witness the
tolls that smoking can take on the body and on a patient's overall health. I
started the Quit Smoking Project in order to explore new ways of using
technology to help lead to positive patient outcomes. My long term goal is to
take what I learn from making an iOS app for smoking cessation and apply that
knowledge to other disease states in the future, such as diabetes and
cardiovascular diseases.
What sets this application apart from every other
application is that it was developed with the driving force of research in
mind. The application is developed from the ground up to be used as a research
tool. It is true that there are other smoking cessations apps on the iOS App
Store, but they were not designed to help push forward the collective knowledge
on health care. We live in a world surrounded by technology, such as
smartphones, and many different research groups are focusing on why this may be
having a negative effect on our health, but the end goal should be finding ways
of making this technology have positive effects on our health. The goal of this
project is not just providing smoking cessation for the patient, but it is also
to create momentum that will drive scientists and health care providers to
create even more innovative patient oriented applications that have a positive
effect on the patient's well being. If I am able to show positive results with
my research, then I can provide a model for future projects to push innovation
even further with personalized technology driven health care.”
We are EXTREMELY proud of
your accomplishment. Congratulations Sunny!
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