Evaluating the Impact of a Photoaging App Versus School-Based Educational Intervention on Adolescents' Knowledge, and Attitudes Towards Tobacco Use

The SmokerFace App utilizes photo-aging technology that requires users to take a selfie. This selfie is processed by the software to generate four images depicting the consequences of smoking (or not smoking) one pack a day over both a one-year and 15 years. The app provides explanations of these smoking beauty-reducing visual outcomes and educates users about the aesthetic impacts of smoking, along with potential health consequences.

This module is designed to promote a tobacco- and nicotine-free environment and is validated by at least three experts in related fields (27). The intervention will be customized to fit the Omani sociocultural context and will be administered in the classrooms of respective schools by the same team of trained medical students