Abstract: Tobacco use remains one of the world’s leading causes of preventable death, claiming more than eight million lives every year, including deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. Around 1.3 billion people worldwide still use tobacco. Despite proven cessation strategies such as counselling, pharmacotherapy and mobile messaging programmes, most people who attempt to quit relapse within weeks or months.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now reshaping this landscape, making cessation support more personalised, continuous and widely accessible. This communication draws on a scoping review of global literature (2015–2026) mapping how AI is being used across five tobacco cessation strategies, with specific attention to what India, home to over 267 million adult tobacco users, can learn and apply. Introduction Tobacco use is among the biggest health problems globally, killing more than…
