Are you serious about reclaiming your health, mind and life expectancy? If so, you've come to the right place. The below links are our gift to you.
Our Message to Non-smokers
Looking for a great excuse to invite a smoking friend to tour the wonderful world of online nicotine dependency recovery? Then National No Smoking Day 2005 may be your ticket! Simply e-mail WhyQuit's link to your smoking co-workers, friends, neighbors and relatives.
Our Message to Media
The Internet's 3rd most popluar quit smoking destination, WhyQuit is an all-volunteer labor of love serving the motivation, education and support needs of the almost 90% of all quitters quitting cold turkey. We also provide visitors with
access to the full-text of as many recent nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patch, gum and lozenge studies as possible, something NHS does not want them seeing. When presenting a smoking or quitting related story we'd greatly appreciate consideration as an alternative quitting resource to the official site's extremely heavy gradual nicotine weaning message. Our sincere thanks in advance!
Here's a quick tour of a few key education links ...
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WhyQuit.com - Our site's main entry page and your guide to three key cessation ingredients - motivation, education and support. You may want to bookmark this link in your favorites folder.
Joel's Library - This link is to Joel's Library which houses the core curriculum taught here at WhyQuit and Freedom. It's a collection of approximately 90 short clinic articles written by Joel Spitzer, WhyQuit's education director and a thirty-year abrupt nicotine cessation clinic director and counselor. Joel started his career with the American Cancer Society in 1972 as a volunteer smoking prevention speaker. Today, aside from his online work, he presents regular live clinics and seminars for the Evanston and Skokie Health Departments in the Chicago area. You'll find that each short article contains a pearl of wisdom. We hope you'll find time to collect them all as your primary weapon against nicotine's strength has never been some product or procedure but instead putting your amazing intelligence to work.
Nicotine Addiction 101 - How does nicotine physically alter and enslave the human brain? How does it compare to other drugs of addiction? How is addiction defined?
How Long Does Recovery Last? - This article shares the timing, sequencing, phases and symptoms associated with the amazing temporary period of adjustment and healing that will transport you to a rich sense of calmness and new expectations of going your entire day without wanting to put nicotine back into your bloodstream.
Navigating the First 72 Hours - Nicotine's half-life inside your body is about two-hours. Within 72 hours your blood will test nicotine-free and 90% of nicotine's metabolites will have passed through your urine. It is here where withdrawal normally peaks in intensity and then begins to gradually decline. This link is a roadmap to help you navigate early withdrawal, the most demanding phase of recovery.
Freedom - You are now viewing the primary message board of what may possibly be the most effective nicotine cessation forum anywhere on the Internet. It's a 100% nicotine free forum where the price of posting privileges is a nicotine-free body (72 hours) and where any relapse - even one puff of nicotine - permanently revokes group posting privileges.
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Topic Index - This is an alphabetical topic index to over 400 messages from Freedom's more than 217,000 member posts that are archived under 21 different subject matter message boards.
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Freedom's 22 Message Boards - This link is to Freedom's subject matter message boards.
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How to Join After 72 Hours - Please be sure to include the four (4) requested items of information in the feedback box appearing with your application or we'll have no choice but to deny your application. As you'll learn, we're very protective of the nicotine-free environment that our members enjoy and have come to expect. Thanks!
Let National No Smoking Day 2005 be when you discovered just how beneficial an educated mind can be in helping you permanently arrest your addiction to nicotine. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely doable. There was always only one rule ... no nicotine just one day at a time, Never Take Another Puff!
