We have apps that will help you with speaking other languages, apps that will tell you what direction you’re walking in, and apps that will tell you what birdcall you’re listening to, or what song is playing. But here’s one of the first ’self-help’ iPhone apps out there: My Quitline.

Scientists from George Washington University have created an application for the iPhone, which will help smokers to quit smoking, according to a message posted on the pages of The GW College Media Network.

Users will be able to listen to music and send messages and also receive advice on rational behavior in a desire to stop smoking.

My Quitline is a free application for iPhone, which provides regular consultations with experts of the program to stop smoking the National Cancer Institute, USA.

Hopefully this helps out some of those smokers out there to assist them in quitting what can be a costly, nasty and (eventually) very deadly habit.