A Dermatologist's Ammunition in the War Against Smoking: A Photoaging App

Titus Josef Brinker; Alexander Enk; Martina Gatzka; Yasuhiro Nakamura; Wiebke Sondermann; Albert Joachim Omlor; Maximilian Philip Petri; Ante Karoglan; Werner Seeger; Joachim Klode; Christof von Kalle; Dirk Schadendorf

doi:10.2196/jmir.8743

A Dermatologist's Ammunition in the War Against Smoking: A Photoaging App

J Med Internet Res. 2017 Sep 21;19(9):e326. doi: 10.2196/jmir.8743.

Authors

Titus Josef Brinker^{1

2

3}, Alexander Enk¹, Martina Gatzka⁴, Yasuhiro Nakamura⁵, Wiebke Sondermann^{2

3

6}, Albert Joachim Omlor⁷, Maximilian Philip Petri^{2

3

6}, Ante Karoglan⁸, Werner Seeger⁹, Joachim Klode^{2

3

6}, Christof von Kalle^{10

11

12}, Dirk Schadendorf^{2

3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
² Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University-Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
³ German Cancer Consortium, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology and Allergic Diseases, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
⁵ Department of Skin Oncology/Dermatology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
⁶ West German Cancer Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁷ Department of Experimental Pneumology and Allergology, Saarland University Faculty of Medicine, Homburg, Germany.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Magdeburg, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center; Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Gießen, Germany.
¹⁰ National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹¹ Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO), Heidelberg, Germany.
¹² German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Division of Translational Oncology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Abstract

This viewpoint reviews the perspectives for dermatology as a specialty to go beyond the substantial impact of smoking on skin disease and leverage the impact of skin changes on a person's self-concept and behavior in the design of effective interventions for smoking prevention and cessation.

Keywords: apps; dermatology; face; photoaging; skin; smoking; tobacco; tobacco cessation; tobacco prevention.

©Titus Josef Brinker, Alexander Enk, Martina Gatzka, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Wiebke Sondermann, Albert Joachim Omlor, Maximilian Philip Petri, Ante Karoglan, Werner Seeger, Joachim Klode, Christof von Kalle, Dirk Schadendorf. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 21.09.2017.

MeSH terms

Dermatologists / standards*
Humans
Mobile Applications / statistics & numerical data*
Skin Aging / physiology*
Smoking / therapy*
Smoking Prevention / methods*