30 Killer Incentives to Quit Smoking (SUPER GALLERY)

Have you been wanting to quit smoking for a while, but just haven’t managed to butt out entirely? Or perhaps you know someone who can’t seem to kick the nasty habit, but you’d do anything to help them do it.

This list of anti-smoking innovations is for you.

Bill Gates and NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg have pledged a collective $500 million against smoking. To do my part, I’ve gathered together some of the most innovative ideas to help smokers quit. They range from clever and disturbing advertising campaigns to nifty gadgets intended to help ween people off of cigarettes.

Anti-Smoking Ads & Clever Campaigns

Cartoons Against Cigarettes - “A Magical Amount” Truth Campaign (VIDEO)

Don’t be fooled—this is no Lucky Charms commercial. If you’re familiar with the Truth campaigns against cigarettes, then you know the ads tend to be rather gorey. The latest ad, however, goes against… [More]

Butting Out - Giant Billboard Gets Attention

Quitplan.com is a free quit smoking support program. The program’s web site states it has prolonged their members lives by 4,630 years and saved them $39,235,656. The company recently put up this billboard… [More]

Visualize Your Grave - Anti-Smoking Ad

The most remarkable winner (bronze) which was not shown before here is the outdoor campaign from the Cancer Patients Aid Association, CPAA. It’s a anti-smoking message from India made by Everest Brand… [More]

Custom Cigarette Packs - Build Your Own Death Project (GALLERY)

Build Your Own Death Project obviously is an anti-smoking endeavor that adds creative flair and interactivity in their campaign. Launched by a Chilean agency, BYODP offers smokers the chance to create… [More]

Shockvertising Smokefree Campaign - NHS: Get Unhooked (GALLERY)

What a powerful campaign! With a slogan of ‘Get Unhooked’, these print ads from NHS smokefree show young guys and girls literally hooked. And by hooked I mean a painful hook up their lips. The ads… [More]

Powerful PSAs - Smoking is Murder

These PSA ads for CONAC (Children Corporation Against Cancer) deliver a powerful message through very disturbing imagery. The message is “Smoking isn’t just suicide. It’s murder.” And the delivery is… [More]

Shocking Cigarette Labels - UK Follows Canada With Graphic Attempt to Discourage Smoking (GALLERY)

Until now cigarette packs in the UK have carried text warning that have been much larger than those in the US Apparently that hasn’t lead to a steep enough decline in smoking which has recently been… [More]

Lung Ashtray - German AOK Anti-Smoking Campaign

AOK, a German health insurance company has installed see-through, lung-shaped ashtrays in metropolitan areas in an attempt to raise consciousness on the dangers of smoking. No smoker in today’s world is… [More]

Interactive Anti-Smoking Ads - QUIT Ashtray Lungs

We know smoking is bad, yet everywhere you go, people are still lighting up. Trying a new approach to typical anti-smoking campaigns is Saatchi & Saatchi who will be releasing an Interactive Poster Campaign… [More]

Futuristic Anti-Smoking Ads - Live to See Naked Chicks & Bin Laden Caught (GALLERY)

These fun ads for Brazilian Association For Smokers Awareness encourage you to quit smoking by showing you what you would miss if you do not overcome this bad habit (and most likely die early). For example,… [More]

Lungs Made of Cigarettes - “Stop Consuming Your Body” Anti-Smoking Campaign (GALLERY)

I am a heavy smoker, but must admit that this new campaign of the Brazilian Anti Smoke Association Ads tagged ‘Stop Consuming Your Body’ makes me think. The lungs are made of cigarettes and some of… [More]

Cigarette Drawings - Smoking Kills More Than Hitler & Bin Laden

If only Hitler could charge a fee for his face being used in so many ads! Following the Malaria campaign which painted Hitler & Stalin with mosquitoes to illustrate the danger of the disease, a new anti-smoking… [More]

Graphic Anti-Smoking Ads - ‘Til Death Do Us Part

This print campaign consists of two complimentary images; one of a female smoker, the other of a male. The ads are aptly named, ‘Til Death Do Us Part.  One HDR-style image features a female sitting in… [More]

Nothing To Kid About - NYC Anti-Smoking Ad (VIDEO)

Smoking campaigns have come at us at all angles to try and scare us away from cigarettes, from the body bag ads to the real-life people hooked up to respirators or with holes in their throats. This latest… [More]

US Movie Rating Agency Gets Tough on Smoking

In a bold move against the tobacco industry, the Motion Picture Association of America has announced that scenes with smoking will impact movie ratings in the same context as sexual activities and violence.... [More]

Smoking Cessation Support

$500 Million Anti-Smoking Campaigns - Bill Gates & Michael Bloomberg MPower (VIDEO)

Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg are outraged at how many people in the world are still smoking, so they’ve made a pledge to invest $500 million in campaigns to get people around the world to…[More]

Apps to Help You Quit Smoking - CostofSmokng

If the fact that you’re putting enough tar in your lungs to pave a parking lot isn’t motivation enough to stop smoking, maybe it’s the cumulative effect smoking is having on your bank account. A freeware… [More]

Online Commitment Contracts - StickK to Your Goals

StikK lets you create commitment contracts online to help honour and meet your goals, from quitting smoking and losing weight to other personal or career aspirations. We all set goals in January, but… [More]

Magic Mirror Shows You 30 Years from Now - Persuasive Mirror (GALLERY)

If you continued to live your life the way you do right now, how would you look in three decades? The Persuasive Mirror tracks everything you do, then takes your actions into account when assessing your… [More]

Technology & Cigarette Replacements

Smoking Vaccine - Currently Under Development

Why bother with cold turkey when you can just get a vaccine?  Medical researches are testing radical new drugs which would allow smokers to immunize them against cigarette addiction. From MSNBC: The treatment… [More]

Butt Out Electronically - Ruyan Battery-Powered Electronic Cigarettes (VIDEO)

Can’t quite kick that disgusting smoking habit of yours? Sometimes willpower or nicotine patches just aren’t enough, and anyone who’s every tried Nicorette gum knows exactly how the nasty burning sensation… [More]

Electronic Cigarette Helps You Stub Out The Habit

Finally, a cigarette that feels and looks like a cigarette but isn’t bad for your health.  A Hong Kong company called Golden Dragon Group is now marketing to smokers trying to quit what it is calling the… [More]

ID Via Wrinkle Detection - Japanese Cigarette Vending (UPDATE)

Japan has vending machines that dispense cigarettes, and just like similar machines in Europe, they provoke issues with underage children buying tobacco. To help prevent access to cigarettes by minors,… [More]

Entrepreneurs Embrace Smoking Ban - Smokeless Cigarettes (Follow-Up)

Trend Hunter has featured innovative smokeless cigarettes in the past; we have also featured articles on public smoking bans around the world, but this is the first time we’ve seen a company embrace both.... [More]

Cigars Without 2nd Hand Smoke - Crown Seven Cigars (VIDEO)

Smoking one Crown 7 cartridge is the equivalent of puffing back two packs of cigarettes, however, the good thing about this new product is that it “does not pollute the environment, nor offend people in… [More]

Smoke-Free Cigarettes - NicStics

These new cigarettes are smoke free! Well NicStic are the invention of the first smoke-free cigarettes that avoid the toxic substances generated during conventional smoking (tar, carcinogenic compounds… [More]

Smoking Gel is the New Cigarrete

The Smoking Cessation Gel has been introduced in Germany by Nicogel Continental and in contrast to other smoking cessation products was originally developed as a substitute for cigarettes, but can also… [More]

Random Innovation

Metaphorical Smoking Accessories - Smoking Gun (GALLERY)

Are you a die-hard smoker? This Smoking Gun would showcase just how bad-ass you are by pointing a gun into your mouth as if you are killing yourself (while you are actually slowly killing yourself).  Would… [More]

Cigarette Earrings - Butt Ugly Accessories

These unusual looking duds can be found for sale at http://www.etsy.com, with a host of other handmade crafts in their online market.  Of course they look ridiculous, but they do serve as a symbol of the potential… [More]

Hi-Tech Fashion Has Lungs - Smoking Jacket

This remarkably high-tech jacket is designed for the polite smoker who doesn’t want to fumigate non-smokers in the area.  When exhaling, the wearer of the Smoker Jacket can blow down the side of the collar… [More]

German Pub Has Smoking Holes - Butt Holes

Gazing into our crystal ball, we can see this porthole being used in every dive bar. Biker bars will probably have a whole row of these to accommodate tough smokers who can’t stand the cold outdoors. At… [More]