THE COUGH AT 3AM ISN'T JUST A COUGH.
How to quit smoking in Australia — a 30-day plan built around your triggers.
QuitCoach is an online quit smoking program for Australians: a personalised quit plan, craving tools you can open at 3am, and a savings tracker that shows the $45 a pack you stop burning. No preachy wellness fluff.
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Built in Australia · Works alongside your GP, Quitline and NRT
Go on, Julia
14
Days
7
Hrs
32
Min
Smoke-free
$630
$315/wk not burned
280
~51 hrs of life back
Craving right now?
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Daily check
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Your tools
3pm is your trigger zone — drink water now to stay ahead.
Yearly cost of a pack-a-day habit in Australia.
Based on a pack-a-day habit at $45 per 20-pack (Cancer Council Australia, Tobacco in Australia, 2026). Your own figures are used inside the app.
Carbon monoxide is gone. Taste & smell start coming back. (Quit Victoria)
Aussie smokers want to quit. Most just need a real plan. (AIHW 2023)
It's never just the cigarettes.
We asked Aussie quitters what finally got them over the line. Almost nobody says "the health warning on the pack." It's one of these.
Your kids
Kids of smokers are 3× more likely to start smoking themselves. Quitting before they turn 12 cuts that risk dramatically. (Cancer Council)
Waking up without that cough
Within 1–9 months, the cough, sinus congestion and shortness of breath start to fade. Mornings feel different.
Adding years to your life
Quit before 40 and you get back almost a full decade of life expectancy. Quit at any age and you live longer. (NEJM, 2013)
The cancer number nobody mentions
Smoking is still the single biggest cause of preventable death and disease in Australia — around 20,500 deaths a year. (AIHW, Australian Burden of Disease Study)
Smelling like a person again
Skin, hair, breath, car, jacket. People around you noticed years ago — they just didn't say.
Money for the things that actually matter
$315 a week is a mortgage payment, a weekend away, the kids' sport fees. The savings tracker shows yours in real time, using your own numbers.
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Your body starts repairing in 20 minutes.
Not a metaphor. Measurable, physical recovery — published by Quit Victoria, the Australian Department of Health, and the UK NHS.
- After20 minutes
Heart rate & blood pressure drop back toward normal.
- After12 hours
Carbon monoxide leaves your blood. Oxygen levels return to normal.
- After2–12 weeks
Circulation improves. Walking and climbing stairs gets noticeably easier.
- After1–9 months
Coughing, sinus congestion and shortness of breath ease. Lungs start to clean themselves.
- After1 year
Risk of coronary heart disease is roughly half that of a smoker.
- After5 years
Risk of stroke drops to that of a non-smoker.
- After10 years
Risk of dying from lung cancer is about half that of someone who keeps smoking.
- After15 years
Risk of heart disease is the same as someone who never smoked.
Sources: Quit Victoria, Australian Dept of Health, NHS UK, US Surgeon General.
HARD OUTCOMES, NO EXCUSES.
We don't track steps. We track freedom.
Cravings Managed
Cognitive tools to kill the urge in 120 seconds. No vapes, no replacements.
Personalised Map
A plan tailored to your triggers—whether it's the morning coffee or the Friday pub round.
Regional Access
Built for low bandwidth. The craving tools and your AI coach are there any time of day, and the tools keep working with no signal — down the mine, in the truck, 500km from the nearest clinic.
Money Back In Your Pocket
Live savings tracker turns every skipped dart into real dollars you can see.
Community & Real Support
A member forum, plus clear signposting to the help that exists: Quitline 13 7848, your GP, and nicotine replacement therapy.
Relapse Recovery Kit
Slip up? You stay in. We rebuild the plan around what tripped you up.
It's not a PDF. It's a coach in your pocket.
Install it on your home screen and it behaves like a real app — it knows your triggers, it nudges you before the hard hour, and it still works when the signal drops.
Your daily AI mentor
A short note every morning written for your character — your triggers, your confidence, your worst hours. Not a generic tip of the day.
The 60-second ritual
One minute a day. Check in, name the risk, lock the plan. It's the habit that carries the quit when motivation doesn't.
Streak protection
Life happens. Shields keep your streak alive through a rough day so one bad night doesn't wipe out five good weeks.
Live recovery timeline
Watch your body repair in real time — 20 minutes, 48 hours, 3 months, 5 years — counted from your actual quit moment.
Offline SOS
No signal, no worries. The craving tools, breathing drill and your reasons stay on your phone — down the mine, in the truck, out bush.
Push reminders that read the room
A nudge before your riskiest hour, a cheer at every milestone — and total silence overnight. You choose the quiet hours.
REAL STORIES, SOON
There are no testimonials on this page, and that's deliberate. We're not going to publish quotes we haven't earned.
QuitCoach is new. When members finish the program and tell us — in their own words — what worked, and give us written permission to share it, their stories will go right here with their name on them. Until then this space stays empty. If you'd rather judge us on the product than on a stranger's quote, the free plan costs nothing and takes about a minute.
Every story published here will be from a real, verified member, quoted accurately, with written consent on file. No composites, no paid reviews, no stock photos.
PICK YOUR BATTLE.
Prices in AUD, GST included. Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back guarantee.
The essentials for the solo quitter. No card needed.
- Personalised Quit Map
- Daily Progress Logs
- SOS Craving Lifeline
- Savings Calculator
- Community Forum (free on every plan)
- No AI Coach or AI Mentor
Everything, plus your 24/7 AI quit coach.
- Everything in Starter
- AI Coach — 24/7 chat & voice
- Daily AI Mentor note
- Relapse Recovery Kit
One payment · limited spots
Pay once. Keep everything in Pro forever.
- Everything in Pro, forever
- AI Coach + AI Mentor included
- No monthly bills, ever
- Limited spots
How to quit smoking in Australia
There is no single best way to quit smoking, but the combinations that work best in Australia look much the same: pick a quit date, get support, and treat the nicotine withdrawal rather than white-knuckling it. Here is the order most Australians follow.
1. Set a quit date and know your triggers
Write down when and where you smoke for a few days first. Cravings are patterns, not random.
Build your free quit plan2. Choose your method
Stopping suddenly, cutting down, nicotine replacement therapy, or a prescription option through your GP.
Cold turkey vs cutting down3. Treat the withdrawal
Patches, gum, lozenges, mouth spray and inhalators are sold in Australian pharmacies and some are subsidised.
Nicotine replacement therapy options4. Talk to your GP about medicines
Prescription stop-smoking medicines exist in Australia and your GP can tell you whether they suit you.
Prescription quit aids explained5. Line up free support
Quitline on 13 7848 is free, seven days a week, and every state runs its own service.
Free Australian quit services6. Track the money and the recovery
Seeing the dollars stack up beats willpower. Work out your pack years and what quitting today saves you.
Smoking cost calculator
Vaping instead of smoking? Start with how to quit vaping and what vaping actually is.
OBJECTIONS HANDLED.
Why pay when Quitline is free?
Quitline is genuinely good and genuinely free, and you should use it. It's also a phone service, and a phone call doesn't suit every person or every moment — a 2am craving, a shift where you can't take a call, a drive with no reception. QuitCoach sits in your pocket, works offline, and tracks your money and your recovery day by day. Use both. The core tracker costs nothing.
What if I succeed and don't need it anymore?
Brilliant. Cancel in one tap. We're not here to lock you into a forever subscription — we'd rather you tell a mate. The community forum stays open to you either way.
I don't have money for another subscription.
Then don't pay for one. The Starter plan is free forever — quit map, daily logs, SOS lifeline, savings tracker and the community forum, no card needed. Pro adds the AI coach and mentor for $19 a month, GST included, against a pack-a-day habit that costs about $315 a week at $45 a pack.
I've failed every time I've tried. Why is this different?
Research shows the average smoker makes 6–30 quit attempts before quitting for good. We treat relapse as data, not failure. The Relapse Recovery Kit rebuilds your plan around what tripped you up — no shame, no restart penalty.
Addiction is psychological. Can an app really help?
An app can't do it alone, and we won't pretend otherwise. What QuitCoach gives you is a framework built on cognitive behavioural therapy, an AI coach that knows the triggers you've actually logged, and a member forum where you're not the only one doing this. Alongside that we point you at the things that genuinely work: Quitline 13 7848, your GP, and nicotine replacement therapy. It works alongside professional support, not instead of it.
Guides & articles.
- Six new things in QuitCoach that make quitting stick
A daily AI mentor, a 60-second ritual, streak protection, a live recovery timeline, offline SOS and smart push reminders — what each one does and how Australians use them.
- How to quit smoking cold turkey without white-knuckling it
Cold turkey is the most popular way Australians quit and the least planned. Here is the day-by-day method, the four hardest moments, and what to do when each one hits.
- What Champix actually costs in Australia — and what else works
Champix and generic varenicline pricing in Australia, whether the PBS covers it, how supply has changed, and the alternatives worth asking your GP about.
- How to quit vaping when it is always in your pocket
Vapes are harder to quit than cigarettes for one reason: nothing interrupts you. Here is a 30-day Australian plan, with the taper, the triggers and what to do at hour one.
- Patches, gum, lozenges, spray — which NRT actually suits you
A straight comparison of nicotine replacement therapy options in Australia: how each one works, what it costs, which strength to start on, and why combining two works better.
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