# Quit Smoking NOW - Max Kirsten — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Quit Smoking NOW by Life Change Media Ltd, rated 4.10/5 from 20 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quit-smoking-now-max-kirsten/id1063236050/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quit-smoking-now-max-kirsten/id1063236050.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (14 of 66) ### 5/5 — Where has dashboard data gone! *2022-02-01, version 2.0* Really good app. After smoking more and more during lockdown, till I was up to over 50 a day, decided to quit early 2021. Combination of the app and a tablet of gum a day and still cigarette free. Only complaint is that all the data from app has been lost so I can no longer see how many days and how much money I have saved. This was a really good incentive so very disappointing! ### 5/5 — I don’t usually review but…… *2022-01-15, version 2.0* I have to write a review for this app. I’ve been a heavy smoker for 22 years, I’ve tried patches and failed, lozenges and failed even vaping and still always gone back to cigarettes. In all the years of being a smoker despite attempts to quit I’ve always tried a replacement therapy and NEVER gone nicotine free. I downloaded this app a fortnight ago and began reading and listening to some of the elements and chose a random mid week quit date and followed the instructions to the letter. I am now FOUR days completely smoke and nicotine free! Four days!!! I’ve never ever gotten this far!! I know it’s early stages but I have to say I’ve never felt this confident about it before. Yes I get cravings, yes I get all the habitual triggers I expected to but YES this app and the advice does work. If you’re skeptical just do it, if you tried everything else just do it! For half the price of a packet of fags it is so worth a try! #neversmokeagain Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — M I N D B L O W N *2022-01-12* I’ve been wanting to quit for awhile but put it off (always) until I stumbled upon an article discussing this app. With no agenda I downloaded it, did it before bed and BOOM! I woke up the next day, not only not craving a cigarette, but it was as if Max crawled inside my mind and made it clearer!! My mind has been blown and I am so grateful!!!! With confidence I can say “I am a non smoker”. ### 5/5 — It works! *2022-01-10* I’ve tried every “Stop Smoking” program/app out there, and this is the only one that truly works! Thank you Max Kirsten! ### 5/5 — Thank you Max Kirsten *2022-01-02, version 1.8* Really appreciate this App, It’s really good infact Majorly life changing. Beyond super helpful. Techniques are great. Been 5 weeks now Can’t see myself ever smoking again Just for today Thank you Max Kirsten ### 5/5 — Simply brilliant *2022-01-02, version 1.8* I swear by this app! It’s fantastic and has helped me immensely. Have recommended it to many. The hypnotherapy sessions are great and really helps. The thought of smoking simply erases and any niggly cravings are easy to handle. The breathing exercise is quick and effectively melts away cravings. Thank you Max Kirsten! ### 5/5 — OMG Freedom , thank you *2022-01-01, version 1.8* I would love to know how many lives this app has saved. I quit years ago with the original app Max released and haven’t looked back. This new app is even more comprehensive at a seriously low price considering what a pack costs these days. The hypnotherapy is relaxing and reassuring and most importantly sincere .The extras on this app really cement the formula. So many facts and truthful quotes will amaze those who have been looking for an answer. I loved getting the “congratulations it’s been 1,2,12 months message and checking how much money I saved on the calculator. My tip is to realise you may feel edgy for a week or two and prepare your family and friends to be mindful. I redirected my anger to the source of the addiction, the cigarette companies who were sucking the money from my pocket and the life from my lungs. With the large amount of money I have saved since then I am truly thankful for this app. Another cool thing is I have a mate who I hang out with and he is a smoker and if he lights up it doesn’t phase me. I urge you to reach out and save your own life for yourself and your loved ones. It’s real freedom. ### 5/5 — Max Kirsten is AMAZING!!! *2022-01-01, version 1.8* Max is a wonderful man who helped my husband to stop smoking, and helped with my confidence for performing on stage. I can’t recommend him highly enough and he is so understanding and kind. He gets it and you’ll be cured of bad habits! ### 5/5 — Thank you Max! *2020-09-24, version 1.7008* 2 weeks smoking free thanks to Max. The breathing and relaxation technique Max teaches is a game changer. I never thought I would quit but Max has helped me click into my will power and have the mental strength to override cravings by seeing them for what they are. Jonny ### 5/5 — I really quit with this amazing app! *2020-01-13, version 1.7006* It’s now 385 days without a single cigarette. Miraculous process, however you have to really commit to you quit. Will power and Max’s hypnosis process is the key. I have now saved £385 with an app that cost under a fiver! Amazing! Thanks Max x ### 5/5 — Max makes the impossible happen......easily ! *2020-01-13, version 1.7006* I was a heavy smoker for 25 years. Another even heavier smoker recommended Max to me after he had successfully quit on the back of techniques Max had implemented. I was a fairly sceptical before meeting Max but thought there was nothing to lose as all other attempts at quitting had failed. These ranged from Nicorette Patches, to Vapes, Juuls, failed bets and even Pills. None of them had been successful and the brief periods I did give up smoking I doubled down on Cigars ! After a 4 hour session with Max, I walked out that door in Beauchamp Place and have never looked back. I am a 129 days no smoking and that includes Cigarettes, Vapes and Cigars. I have found it unbelievably easy. Max is engaging, funny, insightful and basically just delivers. I went back to see him 2 months late for my Insomnia which I thought was incurable having been on Zopiclone every day for five years. Whilst it is less binary then smoking and does take a bit more time for the techniques to kick in, since the New Year I have stopped all sleeping pills and I am soundly sleeping through the night. It now takes me less than 5 minutes to go to sleep. I cannot recommend him highly enough and actually have done so to severL friends. Max is a great way to start the New Year. Good Luck ! Victor. ### 5/5 — Quite simply, a life saver! *2020-01-04, version 1.7005* The app is like having Max watching over you to help whenever you need him! ### 5/5 — Never thought I’d be able to quit *2019-12-21* This App is great. I never thought I’d be able to quit smoking but Max managed to help me accomplish it. He outlines the proposition for quitting very logically and methodically and has designed this app to be simple to navigate and actually fun to use. I appreciated that each segment of the app can be read or listened to because sometimes I can focus better by reading and sometimes by listening. More important than that though is that Max, who you get to know during the course of using the app and who felt to me as though he was a friend by the end of the experience, provides a very effective technique for quitting. I’ll always be grateful to Max for giving me the knowledge and strength to quit smoking. ### 5/5 — Helpful aid and reminder tool *2019-12-02, version 1.7004* Just over a year non smoking and the app is a really useful reminder about why i stopped and has prevented slip ups on more than one occasion! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Did not Work but still paying it seems! *2023-11-19, version 3.1.0* Did not work for me & now I am struggling to cancel what seems to be a monthly subscription to Apple? All assistance welcome. ### 1/5 — The App just won’t download *2022-12-01* I’d love to try this. Please fix it! ### 1/5 — Not working *2022-09-19* Videos aren't loading on IOS16, update the app please ### 1/5 — High hopes for this app *2021-01-16* I had high hopes for this app, and quitting. But support never came through waited a week for response. Not worth the time or money. ### 1/5 — Audio hypnotherapy has a fault *2019-12-31, version 1.7005* I purchased the free version of this app a few years back and re-downloaded recently as I want to attempt to quit again. The old app kept crashing on me so today I purchased the new one for £4.99 but this one has interruptions in hypnotherapy recordings. Every few seconds Max’s voice cuts out & then the recording continues. It’s really off putting & I hope the developers sort it ASAP as I’m currently getting through on will power. Also, I don’t really see much difference between Max’s free app and the paid for version so if you’re short of cash you’ll be fine with the free version (once they sort the continual interruption during hypnosis, as you can’t be hypnotised with contestant bleeps)! ### 1/5 — Ugh *2019-04-08* Not for vegans for vegetarians. I wanted to be hypnotized to smoke smoking, not to eat chicken and fish! Waste of money. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work on my phone *2016-02-07, version 1.1* I have a 6s plus iPhone and there is no noise, I've emailed customer support over a week ago and no reply. Fuming as I've now paid for something that doesn't work and I can't do anything about it. ### 3/5 — Needs improvement *2023-06-21, version 3.1.0* I do believe that this app has helped me to quit smoking. However I did use it in conjunction with a prescription drug that blocks the part of the brain that is “addictive” I don’t believe that this app would have worked on its own. My main criticism is that it is highly focused on the medical aspects of smoking and in this day and age who isn’t aware of the medical dangers associated with smoking! As a female if there was a stronger focus on the negative aspects of how smoking affects aging, how you smell, how it makes your skin hair and clothing stink, how it ruins your skin and makes your teeth look horrible and even how it makes your hands and nails look and smell revolting etc. Perhaps I would have listened to it more often. Also the scary advertising is just the same advertising that we grew up with in Australia and is the warning on our tobacco products. So nothing new there. In fact it is extremely outdated. Still relevant but outdated and nothing new and quite frankly if it worked we all would have stopped smoking in the 1990’s. People don’t think long term. But having immediate negative impacts voiced would’ve been highly beneficial for me at least. I know since I have quit successfully and am off the drug now and not using this app. The main benefits for me are a fresh home, clean hair, teeth, clothing and a remarkable improvement in my skin. I look great! That’s what I can see and feel. Yes its superficial but the fact is that we live in a superficial society. I’m 55 years old. I’m no glamour girl and I don’t really care much about fashion or makeup. But I do care about what people basically think of me. So a stronger focus on that in the hypnotherapy world have been a greater help. Otherwise give it a go. No harm it’s cheaper than a packet of cigarettes. But you have to already be fully committed. ### 3/5 — Need to add support for Airpods *2018-01-17* Haven't been able to use the app because it only outputs to speaker when using airpods. ### 4/5 — Excellent app but needs a little thought. *2018-06-06, version 1.7* This works, but as a vegan, there’s nothing great about being advised to eat a bit of chicken and fish mid hypnosis. That part needs to be thought out more. Other than that thumbs up from me. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 40 years of camel straights. *2024-12-02* Max does a great job with this. Just be willing to win!! When it gets bumpy, I just re listen to these sessions. At first it was once a week. Then every couple months, and now once or twice a YEAR!! You will never look back. ### 5/5 — Best thing ever ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2024-09-18, version 3.1.2* I was a smoker for 23 years and tried twice to stop smoking in that timeframe and failed both times after a week. I found this on the App Store and after reading the reviews I was still unsure given the fact that the reviews were quite old so I did some research and decided to bite the bullet and I must say alongside willpower this app is brilliant I listen to it daily before bed so it goes in my subconscious. And it has really helped me. I have been quit now 28days and started using this after the first 5 days when it got hard with cravings but it’s really well worth trying if your serious about giving up and becoming a none smoker like me. This should be at the top of the App Store for people to see seriously. I’m currently using nicotine patches along side this but planning on stopping them at the 30th week. I ### 5/5 — 4 years on *2024-09-06, version 3.1.2* Ok so its taken me a while to write this review but I guess most want to know if it works and if you can stay off the cigs? For me it’s a yes to both. I had stopped before then started again as is the usual story for most. I had used apps before but it was lock down and to be honest, the change to my normal routine definitely helped. It’s mostly habit and finding somehow to replace that habit but this app 100% helped. Breathing through the cravings kept me from smoking and helped to realise that once you get past one caving, it’s just about getting by the next one and one after. For the money, it’s well worth a try and if you don’t succeed this time, try again. ### 5/5 — Surprised *2023-07-26* I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would quit smoking, I started smoking when I was about 11 years old. I am now 67 and I actually quit almost 2 years ago using this app. Like I said I don’t know how but it obviously worked I have not had one cigarette since November 2021: Thanks Max!!! ### 5/5 — It works!! Book a session now if you want to quit!! *2023-04-28, version 3.1.0* I had a session with max and it worked!!! I had a few cravings but the techniques he gives you work in minutes to stop the cravings. Previously I had tried many ways to give up smoking and failed. It really was so easy and now I rarely think about it. This is coming from someone who loved smoking. I now feel completely indifferent about it. Magical. The app is brilliant for afterwards if you need it. ### 5/5 — IOS 16 Audi/video player issue fix now added. *2022-12-18, version 3.0* NEWS! App software fix has now been added after latest iPhone IOS 16 software update identified a new audio/video media player problem for all past and new users. Problem has now been solved and ready download with new player fix update. Thanks for your patience. Kind regards, Max ### 5/5 — It works *2022-10-10, version 2.0* Max is a hero. He’s added years to my life. Had been a pack-a-day smoker for over 15 years. Haven’t smoked since I left his office (and by using the support of this app). Its very hard to quit smoking. This app makes the impossible, possible. ### 5/5 — Smoking *2022-08-03, version 2.0* This man is absolutely fantastic in my opinion. I smoked for 50 years and desperately tried to give up over 10 years but to no avail. My daughter researched hypnotists and found Max to come out as the best . I attended without the belief he would cure me, but I walked from his clinic 23months ago a non smoker. Not only has he saved me over 8 thousand pounds in that time, health wise he has saved my life . Thank you from Steve ### 5/5 — 100 Days Smoking Free! Unbelievable! *2022-04-14* I am not a believer in hypnosis. Honestly didn’t think it would work but desperate to quit after every attempt to stop left me anxious and smoking more. Not sure how or why, but this quitting process left me empowered rather than desperate. 100 days in and never think about smoking. It is simply not a part of my psyche. In the rare instances where I crave a cigarette, or when people around me smoke, I use the tools and mindset learned in the app. Cravings fade almost instantly. I am no longer a smoker. Not something I tell myself, simply a fact. Grateful to NEVER smoke again. Thanks Max! ### 5/5 — Those damn fags *2022-04-09, version 2.0* Max gets it. He’s been a smoker himself so I never felt judged or rushed..just heard, understood and instantly put at ease. It’s impossible to eliminate the stresses of …life…but I’m feeling resolved and well equipped to face the challenges ahead. Thanks Max for making this not only possible bit actually fun to do --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*