Everything Cigarette Book can do

There's nothing to set up and no account to make. Cigarette Book opens on Home, ready to log, and keeps everything in your own iCloud.

The three tabs

A cigarette is just a moment: the minute you smoked it. Logging one takes two taps.

1. Tap Log a Cigarette at the bottom of Home. The date and time are already set to now.
2. Tap Log Cigarette.

Smoked it a while ago? Change the Date or Time before saving; the note under them changes to "Logged for…" so you can check. Times still to come can't be picked.

One a minute

If a cigarette is already logged at the minute you've picked, Cigarette Book says so in orange and won't save another: nobody smokes two in one minute, so a second one is almost always the same cigarette logged twice. The same goes for your iPhone and Apple Watch: a cigarette logged on both, for the same minute, before they synced, ends up as one.

Tap any day up to today, in the week on Home or in the calendar, to see its cigarettes.

• Each cigarette shows its time and how long it came after the one before, like "8h 26m since the last", even when that one was the day before.
• The heading sums the day up: "3 cigarettes · longest gap 13h 08m".
• A day with none says Smoke-free day.

Add one you forgot

Tap Add a Forgotten Cigarette. It opens on that day at the current time of day; set the time and save.

Delete one logged by mistake

Swipe the cigarette to the left and tap Delete (on a Mac, click the bin beside it, or right-click it). It goes from all your devices, and your smoke-free time and record are worked out again.

The green card at the top of Home is the heart of the app.

• Smoke-free for: how long since your last cigarette, like "1d 2h", with when that was: a time today, a weekday this week, or a date before that.
• The ring fills toward your record, the longest you've ever gone between two cigarettes. The percentage in it is how far along you are.
• The chip under it says what's left, like "16h 11m to beat your record". Before your second cigarette it says "Your record starts now".

When you pass your record, the card says New record!, the ring turns into a trophy, and the chip turns gold: "9h 50m past your old record of 1d 18h". A notification tells you at the moment it happens, even with the app closed.

The three tiles

Times are shown as the two largest units: "45m", "5h 20m", "2d 4h".

Each day is a disc, coloured by how many you smoked, with the count underneath.

The week on Home

The week starts on the day your region uses. Swipe it sideways a week at a time; This Week brings you back. Today has a dark ring. Days before your first cigarette, and days to come, show no count.

The calendar

Tap the month's name or the calendar icon above the week. Months run down the screen, newest at the bottom, each with its total and daily average, like "October 2026 · 115 cigarettes · 3.7 a day". Scroll up for earlier months; tap Today to come back. Tap any day to open it.

Below the week, your cigarettes as bars: by day, week, month or year.

• Pick Day, Week, Month or Year above the bars. Each bar has its count on top.
• The heading totals the bars in view with the daily average, like "850 cigarettes · 5.4 a day", and the dates they cover.
• Swipe the bars back, as far as your first cigarette. They rescale to the tallest in view once you stop.
• Tap a bar for its own count and average; tap it again to let go.

A circle is a group of people quitting together, ranked by their records. You can be in as many as you like, for free.

1. Open Circles and tap + (or Create a Circle if you have none yet).
2. Give it a name, like "Office Quitters", and tap Create.

The circle is made in your iCloud straight away, with its invite link and QR code ready. Creating one needs iCloud and the internet.

Anyone with your circle's link can ask to join. Nobody gets in until you approve them.

Invite

1. Open the circle and tap the person button at the top, then Invite People.
2. Tap Share Invite Link to send it in Messages, Mail or anywhere. In person, they can point their iPhone's Camera at the QR code.

It's the same link for everyone, and all it lets anyone do is ask.

Approve

When someone asks, you get a notification ("Leila Haddad wants to join your circle. Tap to review."), the Circles tab gets a red badge, and the circle shows 2 people want to join. Tap Review:

Tap the invite link you were sent, or scan the owner's QR code with your iPhone's Camera.

1. Cigarette Book opens on the circle's name and who invited you, with what members will see of you.
2. Tap Ask to Join.
3. The circle shows in your Circles with a dashed border and Waiting. When the owner approves you, you're told ("You're in Night Shift Quitters"), and it opens up with everyone's ranking.

Changed your mind? Tap Cancel Request on the waiting circle.

The record holder sits on top in green and gold; everyone else is ranked below.

• Ranked by record: each person's longest time without a cigarette, counting the stretch they're on now. As someone's smoke-free time passes another person's record, they move up, live, without waiting for a sync.
• Each row shows the rank, the name, how long they've been smoke-free and their record. You're outlined in green.
• Joining: people you've approved whose phones haven't sent their card yet.
• Pull down to fetch the latest cards; opening a circle fetches them too.

The person button at the top opens Circle Settings: requests (in your own circles), members, Invite People, and leaving or deleting.

• Remove someone from your circle: swipe their name left in Circle Settings and tap Remove (on a Mac, click the bin beside it).
• Leave a circle you joined: Circle Settings → Leave Circle. You can ask to join again with an invite link.
• Delete your own circle: Circle Settings → Delete Circle. Everyone in it loses the circle.

None of these touch anyone's log.

Five shortcuts are ready as soon as Cigarette Book is installed, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Settings → Siri & Shortcuts lists them.

Give any of them your own phrase in the Shortcuts app, or run one from the Action Button, Back Tap or an automation. The Siri shortcut you made with the old Cigarette Book keeps working. Siri and Shortcuts are part of Cigarette Plus.

Long-press your Home Screen or Lock Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose Cigarette Book.

Tapping a widget anywhere but its + opens the app. Widgets are part of Cigarette Plus; without it they show a lock and open the plans.

Cigarette Book on your Watch syncs with iCloud by itself, so it works without your iPhone nearby.

• Home: your smoke-free time and record; turn the Digital Crown for today, the last 30 days and the week. Tap a day for its cigarettes, and swipe one to delete it.
• The + logs a cigarette. Left alone, it's logged for the moment you tap Log Cigarette; tap Date or Time to pick another with the Crown.
• Circles: swipe left for each circle's record holder and your place in it; tap one for everyone's ranking. Creating, inviting and approving are on your iPhone.
• Complications: Smoke-free and Circle, for your watch face and the Smart Stack.

The Apple Watch app is part of Cigarette Plus.

On iPad, Cigarette Book works as on iPhone, with the tabs at the top. On a Mac, the tabs are a sidebar and Home sits in a column in the window; move the week with the arrows beside it or a two-finger swipe, and press ⌘ R to refresh a circle, or ⌘ [ to go back to Circles. Widgets go on the Mac desktop.

Your log syncs through your own iCloud account. Sign in to iCloud with the same Apple Account on each device; there's nothing else to set up.

• Offline? Everything is saved on the device first. Cigarettes logged offline, and your card in each circle, go up as soon as you're back online.
• Changes arrive by themselves: iCloud tells your other devices when something changes, and opening the app checks again.
• Circles are kept in their owner's iCloud. Your log never leaves yours; only your card goes into each circle.

When iCloud needs attention

Settings shows an iCloud section only when something's wrong:

If a circle's owner runs out of iCloud storage, the circle says so ("Your updates can't reach this circle: Aisha's iCloud storage is full") until they free some up.

Cigarette Book asks once, the first time there's something to tell you.

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New record!

You've beaten your record of 1 day, 18 hours without a cigarette. Keep going.

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Office Quitters

Leila Haddad wants to join your circle. Tap to review.

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You're in Night Shift Quitters

Your circle can now see your smoke-free time and record.

Turned them off? Settings → Notifications → Allow in Settings. On Apple Watch they arrive from your iPhone.

Every cigarette the old app kept comes across by itself, once: the ones on your iPhone the first time the new app opens, and the ones in your iCloud the first time it syncs. Make sure you're signed in to the same iCloud account you used before. The old data is only read, never changed. The Siri shortcut you made to log a cigarette keeps working.

Keeping your record is free. Plus adds the conveniences.

Everyone gets a free week of Plus from the day they first download, with nothing to sign up for. After it, it's $2.49 a year, or $9.99 once for life, and one purchase covers your Family Sharing group. Purchases belong to your Apple Account, so they come back on any device signed in with it; use Restore Purchases on the plans if one doesn't. Your record always counts your whole log, Plus or not.

Still stuck? Settings → Support → Email Support attaches technical details that help us find the problem, never when you smoked or anyone's names. Or email [email protected]. More on Cigarette Book Support.