Vaping and nicotine

For the reach you did not decide to make.

Six minutes, from the moment you notice your hand moving. Nothing counted at you.

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US$14.99 once. No subscription.

Open it when

You are reaching for it without having decided to. You are stepping outside because everyone else did. It is the first coffee, and that is when you always did. You are in the car, alone, and it is right there. You threw it out yesterday and you know which shop is open. You are three days in and the day has gone badly.

Every other app counts something

Puffs, days, cigarettes not smoked, money saved, minutes of life back. That is what this whole category is.

Counting works for a lot of people and there are good apps that do it well. But every one of those numbers describes something that already happened. The day count tells you about yesterday. The money saved tells you about last month. One of them counts every puff automatically, whether your phone is locked or not.

A counter is a record. It is not something you open with the vape already in your hand.

Paddle Past counts nothing at you. There is no puff log, no day streak, no money saved, and nothing that shows you back what you did on a bad Tuesday. It keeps no record of your sessions at all, so there is nothing to put in front of you later.

Nothing to set up. It works the first time you open it.

No account, no email, no quit date to enter.

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US$14.99 once. No subscription.

What happens in the six minutes

A fixed sequence, not a menu. Nothing to choose while an urge is running.

If you quit and started eating

This is common enough that people search for it in those exact words, and it catches a lot of people off guard.

One thing goes quiet and another gets loud. Because Paddle Past never asks what the urge is about, it does not need reconfiguring when the thing you are resisting changes. The same six minutes runs either way, and there is no second app to install.

There is more on that here, and on food noise after quitting nicotine here.

FAQ

Does it replace a quit-smoking app?

Not really, and it does not try to. Quit apps run programmes, count days and track money saved, and plenty of them are good at it. Two of the better-known ones have published trials behind them, which is more than this app can claim in this particular area. Paddle Past does one narrow thing those apps do not: the few minutes when the urge is actually happening.

Do I have to set a quit date?

No. There is nothing to enter, no plan to commit to and no question about whether you are quitting or cutting down. Some people use it while still vaping every day.

Is there a streak I can break?

No. Nothing counts days, so nothing resets. If you vape after a session, the app does not know and would not treat it as a failure if it did.

Does it track my puffs?

No, and it has no way to. There is no puff counter, and no record of your sessions either: what you rated and which exercises ran are not written down at all. When a session finishes, it is gone. If you use blocking, the app does note when blocks start and end. None of that reaches us, because there is no server for it to reach. The one exception: if your phone backs up to iCloud, Apple's backup includes what the app does store, under Apple's terms rather than ours.

Where else can I get help?

This is one technique for the few minutes when an urge peaks. It is not treatment and it is not a substitute for it. Nicotine replacement and prescription options genuinely help a lot of people and are worth asking a doctor or pharmacist about.

The SAMHSA National Helpline is free, confidential, open 24 hours: 1‑800‑662‑4357. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.

Six minutes. Nothing counted at you.

No account. No notifications. No developer server.

Download on the App Store
US$14.99 once. No subscription.