Five million annual smoking deaths and so little meaningful information on how NOT to become a statistic. It's WhyQuit's niche - a tool offering all whose brains have become wired for nicotine an opportunity to bring their most potent weapon to bear upon their chemical dependency, their vastly superior intelligence. But having smashed WhyQuit's prior monthly hits record by more than 1.2 million (set in Nov. 2004), it appears that those putting WhyQuit's lessons to work are doing more than just helping themselves. They're sharing their find.

WhyQuit recorded a record 3.9 million hits during January 2005. What's most amazing is that its growth has exploded despite a marketing budget of zero, despite no links at any website under the economic influence of the tobacco or pharmaceutical industry, and despite no media coverage by any media corporation that helps pay editor, writer and reporter salaries from profits derived from advertising nicotine products.

So is WhyQuit a success? No. Like a textbook on a shelf it sits, just a tool waiting to be opened and used.

In fact, WhyQuit cannot take credit for enduring the anxiety of a single crave episode for any quitter, ever. As a motivation, education and support tool it can't take credit for being used, nor blame for being ignored. Not only does credit for freedom or the blame for relapse rest with each quitter, WhyQuit can't even lay claim to having its own quitting method. It simply teaches and shares the method historically used by all but a small fraction of earth's long-term successful quitters.

What WhyQuit has done is to collect and share a massive and growing array of meaningful nicotine dependency recovery information. Whether viewed as meat and potatoes or nuts and bolts, once intellectually full and freedom's comfort building upon firm foundations, those using WhyQuit are reaching out, in record numbers, to help their brothers and sisters still in bondage.

Imagine knowing the law of addiction, mastering it and then keeping it secret as those around us flounder and die. It's just not who we are. One more thing WhyQuit can't claim. It can't claim credit for generating 3,919,426 January hits. The site's caretakers didn't spend a dime on January marketing. That victory belongs to all who sent them.

A mountain of words at WhyQuit but the bedrock upon which all of them rest is tested and true ... no nicotine just one day at a time, Never Take Another Puff, Dip or Chew!

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Month	Year	Requests
September	2003	653,046
October	2003	777,761
November	2003	777,971
December	2003	658,445
January	2004	1,159,994
February	2004	1,470,868
March	2004	2,186,502
April	2004	1,894,496
May	2004	1,909,498
June	2004	2,014,000
July	2004	2,069,000
August	2004	2,122,144
September	2004	2,242,144
October	2004	2,518,143
November	2004	2,707,539
December	2004	2,339,498
January	2005	3,919,426

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• WhyQuit.com - WhyQuit is the Internet's oldest forum devoted to the art, science and psychology of cold turkey quitting, the stop smoking method used by the vast majority of all successful long-term ex-smokers.
• Nicotine Cessation Topic Index - An alphabetical subject matter index to more than a thousand nicotine cessation articles, videos and support group discussions.
• Nicotine Addiction 101 - WhyQuit's basic guide to understanding nicotine dependency.
• How to Quit - Joel Spitzer's basic quitting tips video.
• Joel's Library - Joel Spitzer devoted nearly 50 years to teaching why smokers smoke, the consequences, and how to stop. Joel's Library is home to his life's work. It includes Joel's "Daily Quitting Lesson Guide," his 100 original stop smoking articles, his free ebook "Never Take Another Puff," and to his nearly 500 video lessons.
• "Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home" - Written by John R. Polito, a former 30-year heavy smoker and WhyQuit's 1999 founder, the book's objective is to help readers become smarter and wiser than their addiction is strong. It's the only quitting book cited by the U.S. Surgeon General in his 2020 700-page Smoking Cessation Report.
• Turkeyville - Imagine surrounding yourself with more than 13,000 cold turkey quitters. Turkeyville is a Facebook support group exclusively for cold turkey quitters.