The Hidden Costs of Smoking

Are you worried about company productivity? Diabetes costs? Employee financial wellness? Follow the smoke.

Our latest study, in the journal “JMIR mHEALTH,” backs up our claim that Pivot is for all smokers. The high-level takeaway: Pivot users who said they weren’t ready to quit when they entered the program ended up having a 32% quit rate. Again, that’s for smokers who said they were not ready to quit. The […]

Grace Hwang and her team of product and experience designers are the people most responsible for the Pivot user experience—from the brand to the app itself. In other words, when you encounter a touchpoint anywhere in the Pivot journey, you’re interacting with something conceived of and designed by Grace and her team. In her two […]

Dr. Heather Patrick was a full-on, very-serious-sounding-paper-writing PhD professor before she left academia in 2009 for more real-world pastures. “I was passionate about developing solutions to help as many people as possible to make positive changes to their health behaviors, and it became clear that academia wasn’t the place for that,” Dr. Patrick says. Her […]

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) leads the investment, joined by New York Life Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and R7 Partners REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 29, 2018 — Digital health company Carrot Inc. today announced that it has raised a $25 million round to commercialize its Pivot™ smoking cessation program (pivot.co). JJDC led the round, joined by […]

Parents want to motivate children. Companies want to motivate employees. Maybe you’ve been trying to figure out how to motivate yourself. We talk about motivation as if it’s the fix for everything. If we could just create enough of it, life would be easier, right? Right! But also wrong. We’re right in believing that motivation […]

Last year, smoking cost the U.S. economy nearly $300 billion, mainly due to the excess health care costs and lost productivity of smokers—financial implications that hit employers particularly hard. Secondhand smoke alone costs…

What if I told you we had a simple preventative service that could help avoid 50,000 premature deaths and $14 billion in U.S. health care expenditures every year? Amazing, right? Good news: This isn’t a “what if.” I’m talking about…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 20, 2018/ — Digital health company Carrot Inc. today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with RedBrick Health, a Minneapolis-based health technology and services company. As part of…