No. Aria is a motivational and informational tool. She does not diagnose, prescribe anything, and in no way replaces a doctor or a smoking cessation specialist. She supports and motivates, as a complement to medical care if needed.

Pr Bertrand Dautzenberg, pulmonologist and tobacco addiction specialist, honorary professor at Pitie-Salpetriere (Sorbonne Universite), reviewed the scientific documentation that Aria can use in her responses as a reliable source consistent with the current state of science. He is not the author of the chatbot's responses -- those are always generated by an AI -- but acts as a safeguard to help prevent errors and hallucinations when it comes to scientific facts.

Aria supports users at every stage, including relapses, which she considers a normal part of the journey toward quitting smoking. She does not judge, does not dramatize, and offers to get back on track together.

Aria is not trained for psychological crisis management. This is an acknowledged limitation.

All of them: manufactured cigarettes, roll-your-own, joints, cigarillos, cigars, snus, heated tobacco (IQOS), e-cigarettes, pipes, hookah. The Tracking module allows you to track each product individually.

Yes, LLMs are simply excellent at speaking any language.

Aria uses multiple models (GPT from OpenAI, Gemini from Google, Claude from Anthropic, Mistral...) depending on the task or the period. The choice is not fixed and may evolve based on what's available. The details of the behind-the-scenes engineering must remain confidential.

ChatGPT is a general-purpose conversational engine. Aria adds a personality, a structured journey with modules, persistent memory, validated medical documentation, statistical tracking, and adjustable communication preferences. An LLM alone does none of that.

Conversations are not intended to be read by humans, except under legal obligation. However, to personalize the user experience and improve the scientific knowledge base, the developers reserve the right to access conversation fragments of the type User question, Aria response. Currently, no tool allows the developer to read an entire conversation.

The information exchanged is stored in a user profile (Supabase database). For each conversation, and depending on the module, Aria retrieves the relevant context to tailor her responses. Aria only memorizes what is related to her purpose: helping users quit tobacco.

Yes, like any LLM-based system, Aria can produce inaccuracies. That is precisely why the scientific documentation was reviewed by Pr Dautzenberg, and why the website clearly states that Aria does not replace medical advice.

The cost of designing and managing the project, using conversational AI (LLM tokens), and other IT services (hosting, maintenance, processing...). Taxes too: a French SASU pays the flat tax de 30%...

Aria is a creation of LuDoMaTiQuE SASU, a French company founded by Ludovic Bablon, a former novelist turned software engineer. LuDoMaTiQuE has specialized since 2025 in AI-integrated software projects (websites, applications, chatbots...)

A little patience, the site has just officially launched and the entire project is run by a single person. Give the baby time to grow up and make lots of friends. Encourage it with a nice article and a hyperlink!

The project is in its launch phase. The priority is user acquisition and product validation.

Making Aria accessible to as many people as possible, in as many languages as possible. The site is already available in 6 languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish). The plan is to grow in these markets until enough revenue is generated to delegate routine tasks and replicate this success in new sociocultural spaces.

Absolutely, and that's the next step! LuDoMaTiQuE will devote the beginning of 2026 to seeking such partnerships, in France and abroad. The prospects seem enormous, particularly with English-speaking and Spanish-speaking markets.

Aria is designed to make users autonomous, not dependent. The modules progressively lead them to build their own strategies. The goal is to no longer need Aria. So we're far from a TikTok-ification of nicotine addiction.

Because smoking cessation support is above all a human connection. An anonymous and cold chatbot generates less engagement than a warm and identifiable presence. Aria's face creates an emotional bond that fosters commitment to the journey.

It's a founding principle. Aria rejects any cynical commercial logic, never pushes for purchases, and never creates artificial urgency. The website displays commercial information transparently, but the AI itself remains commercially neutral.

Aria does not collect health data in the strict sense of the GDPR (no diagnosis, no biometric data). She processes self-reported information related to smoking (consumption, goals, progress) within a motivational framework, not a medical one.

I tested conversations with various language models. Mistral offers, like others, strikingly realistic conversation. But since the application uses n8n, and an AI Agent "node" that's supposed to save data with a Supabase "tool" has a bug, Aria can't use that model... It's a real shame because the cause of digital sovereignty is worth defending. Mistral, sort it out with n8n and fix that bug!

For now, moderately so. As soon as the company has a bit more resources, it absolutely will be!

I was a smoker for 30 years, and both my parents died directly and indirectly because of it. It caused me an incurable emphysema, a pneumothorax, a month of hospitalization, a thoracotomy with talc pleurodesis and electrocoagulation... Smoking severely damaged my health and I tried many times to quit, to no avail. A service like Aria could have helped me find ways to reduce or quit, sooner and faster, and to sustain my willpower.

I still believe that a story and a character can make an idea more tangible and more appealing. A help offering with no name, no face, no personality would seem far less powerful on a human and emotional level. LLM-type AIs make it possible to create characters that adopt a specific behavior and maintain a realistic relationship with users. Like a novel being written live with people!

Aria is built first and foremost on empathy, kindness, listening, gentleness, and respect for others. All values that in Western cultures are associated more with women than with men. Aria is that friend you can tell anything to.

Excellent question, not to mention my 12 other projects... I hope that some of my projects, by finding success, will allow me to quickly build a team or a network of collaborators, so that I can focus on what I love most: designing innovative projects and managing them as an orchestra conductor. I want to entrust task execution to experts... including communications and interviews :-D

Aria doesn't claim to have a miraculous success rate. She offers daily support that is available and accessible. Studies show that regular motivational support significantly increases the chances of quitting, and that committing in writing also boosts motivation. Aria makes this support possible at any hour, without an appointment.

That's exactly why Aria doesn't give medical advice. She motivates, informs (based on documentation reviewed by a tobacco addiction specialist, when it comes to scientific facts), and provides support. The distinction is essential and clearly displayed on the website.

Aria doesn't replace anyone. She provides a service accessible to everyone, including those who wouldn't have access to it otherwise: at night, on weekends, for people who don't want to consult a tobacco specialist, or who can't afford or don't want regular human support. It's a complement, not a replacement.