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== Background == | == Background == | ||
− | I've been trying to quit smoking on and off, with temporary but ultimately limited success. I thought having some more qualitative data on how much smoke might help me to a) identify the extend of my smoking habit and potentially also find some triggers/situations in which I smoke and b) ultimately figure out a way to deliver feedback to help me stop. This project was partially inspired by a reddit post regarding using [[Flic button|Flic buttons]] as a [[One Button Tracker|one-button tracker]] | + | I've been trying to quit smoking on and off, with temporary but ultimately limited success. I thought having some more qualitative data on how much smoke might help me to a) identify the extend of my smoking habit and potentially also find some triggers/situations in which I smoke and b) ultimately figure out a way to deliver feedback to help me stop. This project was partially inspired by a reddit post regarding using [[Flic button|Flic buttons]] as a [[One Button Tracker|one-button tracker]]. |
== Initial setup, protocol and baseline collection == | == Initial setup, protocol and baseline collection == | ||
[[File:Flic-spreadsheet-setup.png|thumb|The Google Sheet into which data is written automatically. Geolocation for the first data points is empty as location permissions weren't set correctly.]] | [[File:Flic-spreadsheet-setup.png|thumb|The Google Sheet into which data is written automatically. Geolocation for the first data points is empty as location permissions weren't set correctly.]] | ||
− | Before starting on any interventions or even providing feedback, I wanted to collect some baseline data on how much I smoke and when. For this I connected my Flic button to my phone and set it up to trigger an IFTTT | + | Before starting on any interventions or even providing feedback, I wanted to collect some baseline data on how much I smoke and when. For this I connected my Flic button to my phone and set it up to trigger an IFTTT trigger every time the button was pressed. IFTTT in turn would write the button presses into a Google Sheet to collect the data. In total I decided to collect 3 types of data: |
# Type of click, the Flic supports regular clicks, double clicks as well as recording holding the button | # Type of click, the Flic supports regular clicks, double clicks as well as recording holding the button | ||
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As a result, every time I double click the Flic button, the value in cell N3 automatically increments upwards for a given day, before jumping back to zero at midnight. With this automated counting in the Google Sheet in place I then added a monitoring of this particular cell (N3) to IFTTT, and every change in the cell's value will trigger a notification on my phone/watch through the IFTTT app that informs me about today's counter status. IFTTT does not monitor the data in real-time, but rather every 5 minutes, which seems timely enough for now. | As a result, every time I double click the Flic button, the value in cell N3 automatically increments upwards for a given day, before jumping back to zero at midnight. With this automated counting in the Google Sheet in place I then added a monitoring of this particular cell (N3) to IFTTT, and every change in the cell's value will trigger a notification on my phone/watch through the IFTTT app that informs me about today's counter status. IFTTT does not monitor the data in real-time, but rather every 5 minutes, which seems timely enough for now. | ||
− | In a few weeks it will then be time to check the the data and compare it to the baseline to see if the intervention made any difference. | + | In a few weeks it will then be time to check the the data and compare it to the baseline to see if the intervention made any difference. |
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