Welcome to WhyQuit, a totally free forum that's home and haven to nicotine cessation. We hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is time someone leveled with you.  If the only tactic you employ is to make a New Year's resolution to quit smoking, then your odds of success during 2008 are about 1 in 20.  Yes, a 95% chance of failure.  If you do not at some point come up with a real action plan, such as the plans, ideas and tips shared by successful ex-smokers below, people no stronger than you who not long ago stood exactly where you stand now, then you are likely destined to smoke until it cripples or kills you.  In fact, the most basic lesson in quitting ...

"The Law of Addiction"

... is so elusive that half of all long-term smokers you know, already know the cause of death that will be printed on their death certificate, certificates that will each be issued an average of 13 years early.

Randy Texas Free After 32 Yrs	Sean Saved £221.77 Four Months	Katy South Australia Six Months	Scott Loves Being Free Nine Months
Heidi California, USA Eleven+ Months	Kris Climbs stairs again! Eight Months	Robin Maharashtra, India 1 Year, 6 Months	Denny Albany, New York 1 Year, 8 Months
Star New Hampshire, USA Five Months	Ingrid Nederland, Europe Five Months	Roger Ft. Myers, Florida 35 Days	Greg Rhode Island, USA 18 Days
Libby Smoked 37 Years Free 13 Months	Wendy & Randy BC, Canada 173 & 41 Days	Steve Myth vs. Reality Two Years	Bernadette California, USA 26 Months
Vicki Arizona, USA Four Months	Kelly Sisterless 2 Yrs Free for Four	Sharry Alicante, Spain Three Weeks	Amy Kalamazoo, MI 1 Year, 11 Months
Suzie Australia Nearly Three Months	Jill West Virginia, USA Four Years	Jeff Phoenix, Arizona 23 Days	Heather United Kingdom Two Months
Joe Suicide by Cigarette Four Months	Joseph Nicotine-Free Two Years	Denny B Albany, New York Ten Months	Kathy Come Join Us! Eight Months
John Michigan, USA Two Years	Olivia Atlanta, Georgia 1 Year 2 Months	Tanya Atlanta, Georgia Ten Months	Gitte Yorkshire, England 1 Year, 1 Month
Susan Wisconsin Eleven Months	Steve Georgia 1 Year 7 Months	Amy Michigan Eleven Months	Glenn California 1 Year 4 Months
Rick Spokane, WA Three Years	Joanne Australia 16 Weeks	Joseph 26 Year Smoker Fourteen Months	Julia Ontario, Canada Ten Months
BillW Ohio, USA Three Years	JoeJ Ohio, USA Eleven Months	Bernadette California, USA Fifteen Months	Joanne Canada 1 Year, 4 Months
Pearl Broome, Australia Two Months	Julie New Jersey, USA Nine Days	Mary A new mother Two Years	Liz Ontario, Canada Three Months
Lorraine In Golden Shoes Three Years	Tom 2+ packs, 44 Years 1 Year, 1 Month	Kevin Chewed Copenhagen Six Months	Kay Canada 1 Year & 7 Hours : )
Tom Pennsylvania, USA Three Years	JoeJFree Cleveland, Ohio Two Years	Tina United Kingdom Seven Months	Kat Kentucky, USA Eleven Months
David Georgia, USA 1 Year, 1 Month	Anita Virginia, USA Five Months	Richard 33 Yrs., Ca. USA Ten Months	Rickdabler A Golden Giver 1 Year, 2 Months
Guy Texax, USA Eleven Months	Sue Virginia, USA 1 Year, 8 Months	Roger A New Year's Victory December 31, 2001	Terry 32 Yrs, CA, USA 1 Year, 1 Month
Judy Husband Too! 1 Year, 11 Months	Steph Cheshire, England Six Months	Angie Ontario, Canada Eleven Months	John 3 Packs, SC, USA Five Years
Steve Georgia, USA Seven Months	Cuca Puerto Rico 1 Year, 3 Months	Anna Chicago, USA One Week	DeWitt Texas, USA Three Months
Bob New York, USA 1 Year, 5 Months	Erica Age 23, USA 1 Year, 1 Day : )	Kelly Tennessee, USA Eleven Months	Joanne Frozen Earth Five Months
Connie Virginia, USA Four Months	Sue Illinois, USA Three Months	Dina Alberta, Canada Nine Months	Katie 40 Year Smoker Two Months
Mara 34 Year Smoker Two Months	Melissa North Carolina Three Years	Bobbie 49 Year Smoker Three Months	Joseph 26 Yr. Smoker Two Months

Imagine being Deborah, 38 and told your cancer is incurrable.

WARNING: WhyQuit is a serious and intensely focused nicotine cessation forum. Its mission is to help all who arrive arrest nicotine's grip upon their body and mind. Please understand that this forum does not exist to make any nicotine addict feel good about obedience to their brain's next nicotine delivery command. It exists to help them say, "no!"

Although the trail of words through WhyQuit, Joel's Library and Freedom now number in the millions, they all boil down to one guiding principle that if adhered to guarantees success to all ... no nicotine just one hour, challenge and day at a time, Never Take Another Puff, Dip or Chew!

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