Your type. Your plan.
Premium cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars each carry different habits. ClariLung accounts for all three.
Hand-rolled, long filler — Cohiba, Arturo Fuente, Padron. Often an event or ritual.
Swisher, Black & Mild, and similar. More frequent use, easier to underestimate the habit.
Cigarette-sized, often filtered. Used more like cigarettes, with similar frequency.
The ritual is real. So is the risk.
Cigars carry serious health risks that are easy to underestimate when the habit is tied to positive moments.
Bound to identity and ritual
Cigars are often tied to celebration, relaxation, and social identity — the golf course, the graduation, the Friday evening. That emotional weight makes "just stop" harder than it sounds.
High nicotine in each smoke
A full-bodied premium cigar can contain around 15mg of nicotine — comparable to many cigarettes smoked in a day, per public-health data. Even occasional users can develop physical dependence.
Oral health risks accumulate silently
Cigar smoke is associated with oral, throat, and esophageal cancer, gum disease, and tooth loss — risks that grow with time and feel abstract until they're not.
"I don't inhale" is not protection
Cigar smoke is absorbed through the mouth and throat even without deliberate inhalation, and many people do inhale some smoke incidentally. The chemicals enter the bloodstream regardless.
What happens when you stop.
Cigar recovery focuses on oral health, cardiovascular normalization, and cancer risk reduction. These milestones reflect established cessation research from CDC, NHS, and American Lung Association.
Sources: CDC, NHS, American Lung Association. ClariLung is not a medical device.
It says what you actually use
Every screen names what you actually use — and counts cigars per week, the way people who smoke them actually think about it.
Actual app screens · sample data
Not a recovery graphic. Your numbers.
Even occasional cigar use registers in resting heart rate and blood oxygen. Most quit apps show everyone the same generic recovery timeline. In the ClariLung mobile app, these come from your own Apple Watch or Android wearable and are charted against your pre-quit baseline.
- Resting heart ratebpm
- Heart rate variabilityms
- VO₂ maxml/kg/min
- Blood oxygen%
- Respiratory ratebreaths/min
- Sleephours
Requires the iOS or Android app and a device that records these metrics. ClariLung reads what your wearable already collects — it displays trends, and does not diagnose or predict any health outcome.
Built for the way you actually smoke.
Six tools built around cigar-smoking patterns — not the cigarette-smoker playbook.
Per-cigar logging
Log each cigar by type — premium, cigarillo, little cigar. See your weekly pattern clearly. Know what "occasional" actually looks like.
AI Coach for celebration triggers
Cigar triggers tend toward events, social situations, and relaxation. The coach understands this context and helps you find alternatives that don't compromise the moment.
Taper plan: fewer per week
Cigars are often counted per week, not per day. The taper plan works on that cadence — gradual reduction without removing the ritual entirely until you're ready.
Oral and cardiovascular recovery
Milestones tailored to cigar smokers: when oxygen typically rises, when mouth and throat tissue often begins to heal, and the long-term oral-health improvements that typically follow quitting.
Craving tools without judgment
For many people, oral and throat recovery begins within the first week. When the urge hits, the breathing tool buys you three minutes.
Money saved — by the cigar
Premium cigars at $12 each, cigarillos at $1.50. Whatever your habit, ClariLung shows the real cost — and what you're keeping when you stop.