Smoking Cessation

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…

The start of a new year can be a hectic time in wellness. There’s the mad rush around the holidays, closing out the previous calendar year, and gearing up for the next. For many companies, January is also…

The greatest public health achievement of the 20th Century was tobacco control. In 1965—the year that the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking was published—some 42 percent of U.S. adults were smokers, and only half of…