Recently, you have quite smoking. It has been three weeks since you’ve found sweet relief in your tobacco stick. But today was a rough day at work. You are out at a bar with a few friends, when you try to sneak outside for just one cigarette. You light up, and pull out your phone to pass the time. But you can’t make it past the lock screen. You are alerted that you are locked out of your other addiction…your phone.

As part of a Digital Portfolio class, we were instructed to create a unique and useful app for Nicorette. The Lockout App acts as the ultimate “tattle tale”.  After downloading the app, you select up to 5 friends to kick you out of your phone if you lose focus of your goal.  We wanted to highlight the theory that quitting smoking is really a group effort. The app would also act as a motivator. You could alert it when you are having cravings, and your select friends could send encouraging messages to help get you through.