un-vape

Make the automatic visible

Most vaping happens below the line of awareness. Hand to pocket, pocket to mouth, screen still glowing, the loop closes before the person notices it began. The premise of un-vape is that the automatic has to be seen before anything else can happen. Count the automatic moments. Name them. See them.

The app does not push the user toward a quit date. It does not assign streaks or reward badges. It logs what is happening, shows it back, and gets out of the way.

Five surfaces

The client app has five surfaces, available from the bottom navigation. Each has one job.

Learn. An evergreen library of short explainers. Three to five minute reads, or two to three minute audio versions. No gating. The reader browses or searches and leaves.

Now. Low-friction logging. One tap to record a vape, a craving, a trigger, a mood, a context, a sleep window, a cost. Details are optional after the fact. The logging vocabulary is calibrated for nicotine specifically: phone-scroll and bathroom and first thing on waking are first-class triggers; “focused” is dropped as a mood because nicotine focus is withdrawal-relief, not enhancement.

Patterns. The user’s own data, shown back. Most common trigger. Strongest craving time of day. When the pull clusters, and where. Described, never scored: no streaks, no grades, no money counters. The headline metric is the count of automatic moments, because that operationalizes the positioning.

Watch. Market alerts about vape products. Drug-laced disposables, contamination alerts, recalled batches, emerging device risks, all dated and time-sensitive. No app in the vaping space offers this. It runs on the same content pipeline that powers Lantern’s Field Notes.

Tools. In-the-moment supports. A four-minute craving timer. Urge-surfing audio. Box breathing. A three-question check-in titled “Why am I reaching for this?” A context-aware “What else could I do right now?” An optional journal prompt of the day.

One decision shapes the whole product

The coach has no access to the client’s data.

This is the design choice that defines un-vape against every other practitioner-distributed behavioral-change app on the market. Sharing happens only if the client initiates it: a screen-share in session, or a PDF export the client hands over. The practitioner buys un-vape to distribute professionally, not to monitor.

The trade-off is intentional. Coaches are paying for a polished tool to put in front of their clients, not for a dashboard. The value to the practitioner is that the client has something real to open between sessions, and that the conversation in session has real data behind it when the client chooses to bring it.

The voice

Observational, not motivational. No shame, no cheerleading, no “just quit.” The app does not ask the reader a question every paragraph. Sentences end. The work is hard. The software does not pretend otherwise.

Crisis path

A simple, region-aware helpline link. No hardened helper chat. No escalation classifier. When a person needs a person, they call one.

Architecture

A PWA. Anonymous by default. No third-party trackers, ever. Encryption at rest, TLS in transit, data export and delete on demand. Hosted centrally by the studio. The practitioner licenses the deployment; no IP transfers.

Status

Available now. Practitioner distribution. Solo and clinic licensing tiers. White-label option available.