Insomnia Coach is designed for Veterans, military Servicemembers, and others who are suffering from insomnia. The app is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i) and provides: * a guided, weekly training plan to help you track and improve your sleep * a sleep coach with personal feedback about your sleep and fun sleep tips * an interactive sleep diary to help you keep track of daily changes in your sleep * 17 tools to help you get your sleep back on track This app is based on scientific research about how people can change their behaviors and thoughts to improve their sleep. This app does NOT replace professional care. Insomnia Coach is designed to be used daily for 5 weeks by following the Training Plan. After that, you can continue using the app to track your sleep and maintain good sleep habits. Insomnia Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.
Not very good!
Fitbit beats this VA app to smitherins!
Give this a try if you have insomnia
I struggle with insomnia and felt pretty desperate and out of options when I downloaded this. I’m a physician so thought I was doing everything right about sleep hygiene and while I did a lot, this app still really helped. If you do your best to fill in your sleep diaries and follow the recommendations, you’ll likely be sleeping better. I definitely benefited from this app.
Works for Me!
I stayed with the full program, which was 5 weeks of daily diary entries and slow, sometimes difficult, behavior changing. They were incremental steps toward understanding and practicing better sleep and awake techniques. I’m grateful for access to this free program and the wonders it created for me to have better, more sound sleep.
Annoying
This app chastises you when you wake up too early and can’t fall back asleep. “It’s important to wake up at the same time every day,” it says. Well, if I could do that, I wouldn’t need the app! Doesn’t give enough help for when you wake in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep, or when you wake up too early.
Family NP big thumbs up
After over 20 years working with sleep problems, thanks to you, I have a tool that works. I tried it first before recommending this to my patients. I went from sleeping 3-4 hours of interrupted sleep to 7-8 solid hours. What a relief! I never wanted to try medication for myself due to the significant associated risks. This is the better choice. Thank you!
Sounds CBTi fundamentals, dark mode needed
Trying to use this bright app when I’m supposed to minimize bright light is counter productive.
Cured me. I’m sleeping pill-free
I cannot say enough about the effectiveness of this app. I’ve been taking prescription sleeping pills for about 14 years and tried to get off them many times but could never sleep through the night. After following Insomnia Coach’s behavioral modification plan for 2 months I now sleep through the night with quality sleep. It does take discipline and you do have to make changes to your nightly routine. But for me, clean restful no-drug sleep is absolutely worth it. I highly recommend.
* fixed a bug with audio playback on Bluetooth devices
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