An AI drafted your quitting-support message: make it truthful before sending

Write the facts outside the generated draft

Start with what you actually want to communicate: a situation you know occurred, the kind of ordinary help you want and a time that fits. Uncertain quantities can remain unknown. You do not need to supply your full log, private messages or identifying details about others to obtain wording ideas.

WHO’s 2024 AI guidance identifies inaccurate and incomplete statements and automation bias as risks in health-related uses. That supports checking generated material. It does not establish that a particular draft is wrong or validate a tool for writing personal quitting messages.

World Health Organization: WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models

Inspect claims about your experience line by line

Look for events the tool supplied to make the message vivid: a claimed number of attempts, a symptom, a promise about recovery or something a friend supposedly said. Delete any statement that is not your truthful account. A plausible detail is not a remembered event.

In an invented example, you asked for help requesting company on a walk. The draft says you have struggled every night and that this friend is your only chance of quitting. Neither statement was supplied or intended. You remove them and retain the simple invitation. That correction changes the request’s meaning, not merely its tone.

Check whether the favor became larger

A draft can change an occasional invitation into daily monitoring or turn a request for listening into a demand for advice. Read the action from the recipient’s point of view: what would they believe they must do, by when and for how long? Restore the actual scope.

Keep room for refusal. A sentence saying the person must help to prove they care adds a condition you may never have wanted. General supportive language should not assign another adult responsibility for whether you vape, and a warm ending should not promise unlimited access to your records.

Australian Government — health.gov.au: Tips for helping someone quit the smokes or vapes

Decide which version sounds like something you would say

Read the revised message aloud or in your usual communication style. Shorten unfamiliar phrases. You can tell the recipient you used help with wording if that fits the situation; do not invent a universal disclosure rule or claim a clinician wrote or reviewed it. You remain responsible for the account you choose to send.

Check the actual recipient and channel separately. A reviewed draft is still private material, and copying it into a group chat changes its audience. Do not assume that using a writing tool sends the message safely or supplies the recipient’s agreement.

National Cancer Institute — Smokefree.gov: Get Ready to Quit Vaping

Keep writing assistance separate from quitting advice

If the generated draft starts selecting treatment, explaining symptoms or promising a timeline, leave those questions for qualified support. This article offers a review of ordinary self-expression, not a way to approve clinical recommendations by rewriting them more politely.

The checking exercise is original editorial work and has not been evaluated as a quitting intervention. Its practical output is one accurate message containing a request you actually mean. If reviewing a draft takes more effort than writing a direct sentence yourself, choose the direct sentence and move on.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Vaping and Quitting