30-day quit support • CBT-based behavioural guidance

Why We Built Smono

Smono helps people understand and reduce the desire to smoke through personalized, compassionate behavioural support. The goal is not to shame anyone for slipping or struggling. It is to help people build clearer insight, steadier self-trust, and a more workable relationship with change.

Remove the desire. Not just the cigarette.

Our Story

Smono began as an idea in December 2025 after the founders repeatedly observed the same problem: people trying to quit smoking often encountered generic programs that did not adapt to their individual triggers, beliefs, habits, and behavioral patterns.

Smono was created to close that personalization gap. Its goal is not merely to help users avoid cigarettes temporarily. It aims to help users understand and reduce the psychological desire to smoke through personalized support based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles, mindfulness, trigger mapping, belief tracking, relapse-prevention psychology, and AI-personalized daily content.

The founders previously worked together at The Language Network, where they built and shipped consumer education products. That experience shaped how Smono is designed: clear content, thoughtful guidance, and a focus on learning that fits real lives.

They chose this approach because quitting is tied to thoughts, beliefs, habits, emotional patterns, and context. Personalized behavioural support makes it easier to understand those patterns instead of treating every quit attempt like the same story.

Our Mission

Help people reclaim freedom from smoking through personalized behavioral support, compassionate guidance, CBT-based principles, mindfulness, and clearer understanding of triggers and beliefs.

Smono is a 30-day quit-smoking program: 10 days focused on preparing to quit, followed by 20 days of continued smoke-free support. It is available on web and mobile, with support for English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese.

The mission is to support users without shame, guilt, or willpower battles, and to treat relapse-prevention as practical support rather than moral judgment.

Our Approach

Quitting is personal. Two people can smoke for very different reasons: stress, routine, social settings, emotional patterns, or beliefs about what cigarettes do for them. Generic advice can feel disconnected from someone’s real triggers and daily life.

CBT principles help users examine thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and routines more clearly. Mindfulness can help users observe cravings without immediately acting on them. Trigger and belief tracking helps people notice patterns. Relapse-prevention support helps them respond to setbacks with curiosity instead of shame.

Personalization matters across the whole journey. When users understand their own patterns, support becomes more relevant, practical, and easier to apply in real life.

Meet the Founders

Two co-founders built Smono with a shared focus on personalization, clarity, and compassionate support.

Pinnac Yeddy

Co-Founder & CEO

Based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Pinnac Yeddy was Co-Founder and CEO of The Language Network from November 2020 to January 2026, where he helped bootstrap the company to ₹2 crore ARR within six months of launch. The company trained more than 5,000 students globally, built a community of more than 900 foreign-language teachers, and worked with learners across France, Germany, Canada, and other countries.

He also established partnerships with corporates, schools, embassies, and international organizations, collaborated with the World Trade Centre, Mumbai, and stepped down as CEO in January 2026. He is also Co-Founder of “We have no limitations,” a venture studio, from October 2025 to the present. Smono emerged from the venture studio’s work. Earlier, he co-founded Ukiyo Stays from June 2021 to October 2024, studied at Jai Hind College, Mumbai, and has focused on business strategy, brand strategy, go-to-market, growth, and customer acquisition.

Mainak Saha

Co-Founder & CTO

Mainak Malay Saha is a full-stack engineer and applied AI builder with an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Arizona State University, completed in 2026. He has focused on production LLM systems, real-time infrastructure, and shipped software products.

He previously worked with Pinnac Yeddy at The Language Network and now leads the technical development of Smono’s AI-personalization layer, which adapts CBT-based content to each user.

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Our Values

Compassion Over Shame

People deserve support, not judgment.

Personalization

Every person has different triggers, beliefs, routines, and motivations.

Honesty

Smono should communicate clearly about what the program does and does not provide.

Privacy and Respect

Sensitive personal information must be handled carefully and respectfully.

Freedom-Focused Progress

The goal is to help users build a life in which smoking feels less necessary and freedom feels more achievable.

Reclaim your freedom. One reset at a time.

Start your journey with personalized, compassionate behavioral support.

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