No person associated with WhyQuit.com, Freedom from Nicotine or AskJoel has ever accepted any income, fees or financial donation from any source in connection with their work or service to these sites. All work is volunteer and pro bono. The modest annual expenses associated with operating WhyQuit and keeping Freedom from Nicotine and AskJoel as commercial free as possible are paid by Joel Spitzer and John R. Polito.

Although some links at WhyQuit may open to websites which sell products or services, or solicit donations, no product or service is sold at WhyQuit and all offers of cash donations are declined. Any commercial advertising seen at "Freedom from Nicotine" (primarily on member profile pages) is controlled by Yuku and any ads appearing at "Ask Joel" are hosted and controlled by Aimoo. Neither Freedom nor Ask Joel have any control over the products or services advertised by Yuku or Aimoo, nor has any person associated with Freedom or Ask Joel ever received any income from either site.

Freedom has three current managers, Sallie Hamilton, Suzie Ryan and Joe E. Jiamachello, one director, John R. Polito, and nine retired managers. None of Freedom's current or former managers or directors have ever accepted any compensation or donations for their work at WhyQuit, Freedom or AskJoel.

John has presented free, periodic community-based nicotine cessation programs since April 2001. From 2003-06 he conducted free bi-monthly nicotine cessation seminars on behalf of the College of Charleston's Counseling and Substance Abuse Services in Charleston, SC, where, from 2005-06, he was compensated under a grant from The American Cancer Society. John has also from time to time presented paid private seminars for which he was compensated by the employer or government agency retaining his services. During 2007 and 2008 the South Carolina Department of Corrections compensated John for presenting 63 nicotine cessation seminars to correctional officers, staff and inmates at 28 S.C. prisons. John is the author of the free PDF book Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home and between August 2, 2009 and August 2, 2010 24 copies were printed and sold.

As paid professional staff, Joel Spitzer served as Smoking Programs Coordinator for the American Cancer Society, Chicago Unit, Illinois Division from September of 1977 to November of 1978. He worked as Quit Smoking Programs Coordinator for the Rush North Shore Medical Center as paid staff from November 1978 until July 2000. Joel served as a smoking prevention and cessation consultant to the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services from 2000 until 2008, and served as consultant to the Skokie Health Department from 2002 until January 2007. He was compensated by each department and compensation was never dependent upon or in any manner tied to the number of participants in attendance, where they resided, or how they found the program.