They also receive a printed quit guide, and access to Web Coach, an online interactive web-based programme designed to complement the phone programme.
On the other hand, the immediate real time access to data significantly improves data quality, while the complex skip patterns of the mobile phone programme provides comprehensive validity and readability checks within the instrument.
The NSA's internet and phone metadata programmes indiscriminately suck up billions of records every single day, both domestic and international.
Callers to radio phone-in programmes popular with ordinary Kenyans said in droves that they were appalled by the violence.
Voters may piously tell phone-in programmes they care only about the issues, but the last 24 hours have confirmed that that's bunk.
Some US officials have said that the White House, which is free to accept, reject or modify the panel's ideas, has indicated it is not likely to endorse substantive changes to the phone records programme.
In the modern global electronic age, it applies to the blogosphere, phone-in programmes, letters pages, review sections, and editorials, all of which brim with comment on a wide variety of issues.
Prism is meant to target foreigners and Americans who contact them, but the phone surveillance programme targets Americans, and US politicians are principally concerned with the idea the powers may have been used "improperly" to spy on Americans.
AP also points out that NSA director General Keith Alexander, who will testify today, has said the phone surveillance programme has stopped "only one or two cases of terror activity out of about a dozen threats directed at the US".
Critics of the phone records programme, which allows the NSA to hunt for communications between terrorists abroad and US residents, argue it has not proven to be an effective counterterrorism tool.
