Hi everyone!
We surpassed a huge milestone today - we now have over 100,000 members! 📢
This is a tremendous accomplishment! Extra special thanks to our members (we all know who they are) who spend time helping others. Their leadership and giving spirit have saved countless lives, and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts.
Here's to helping the next 100,000!!!!
Cheers,
Trevor
Hi projectgait - what an amazing question. I can't resist adding my 2 cents...
The research I've read in this area is that paying someone to quit works "sometimes" for "some people". But actually, not very often. If it worked for most people, I think insurance companies and social health systems would regularly offer people $ to quit. This would save not only on a lot of future healthcare and lost productivity costs, but also a lot of heartache.
This reminds me of a fairly recent study I did on our communities. I thought, at the beginning of the study, that I could predict who would be motivated post and who wouldn’t. We looked at factors like demographics (e.g. a user’s age, gender, occupation, education, etc.) and disease severity (e.g. how long they smoked, how many cigarettes they smoked per day, how many times they quit, etc.). Well…
I was dead wrong. Totally wrong. It turns out you can’t predict who will post (and who won’t). If interested, you can read the study here: https://www.jmir.org/2017/2/e40/
My point is that it’s hard to figure out what motivates people. What motivates someone to post? What motivates someone to quit for good?
My guess is that if $ is super important to your brother, more important than smoking, it can be used as a tool to help motivate him quit. However, I think it turns out that in moments of severe cravings a lot of things take second place to relieving the pain of withdrawal.
I'm also a former tobacco user and although I quit a long time ago the thought of having to go through the process again is a strong enough motivator to stop me from using tobacco again. The thought of using tobacco again actually repulses me, but the thought of going through that again is even stronger.
Note: this should not stop someone who is struggling right now. In fact, even though they may be miserable in their quit, it DOES get better with time. The desire to using tobacco will one day - believe it or not - go away entirely.
In any case, what a great question!
Hi everyone,
At the request of a few members we've gone ahead and created this forum.
In the past (like - >10 years ago), we wanted 100% of conversation to be around the quitting process. We were afraid of people spamming the community, or the community losing focus.
Well, thanks to some valuable advice from wise and constant users like HK01 and Timbo637, we've modified our thinking and are going to try this out.
So, if you need some distraction, would like to share some news with fellow members, or just want to hang out this is the place to do it. If this works we'll add a similar forum to the Anxiety and Depression community.
Please feel free to add your input - and thanks!
Trevor
Hi Everyone,
We've uploaded a new feature that was requested by members. You can now turn your quit meter "on" or "off". Turning your quit meter off will remove it from showing in your posts. You can do this on your Profile page:
Please message me directly if you have any other changes that you'd like to see.
Thanks!
Trevor and the Evolution Health Dev Team
Hi Everyone,
Several members have asked us to create a "last logged in" feature so members can see when others have last logged into the platform. We've added this feature to each member's public profile page (see below):
Please message me directly if you have any other changes or additions to the platform that you'd like to see.
Thanks!
Trevor and the Evolution Health Dev Team
Hi Everyone,
Several members have asked us to create a "last logged in" feature so members can see when others have last logged into the platform. We've added this feature to each member's public profile page (see below):
Please message me directly if you have any other changes or additions to the platform that you'd like to see.
Thanks!
Trevor and the Evolution Health Dev Team
Hi Everyone,
Several members have asked us to create a "last logged in" feature so members can see when others have last logged into the platform. We've added this feature to each member's public profile page (see below):
Please message me directly if you have any other changes or additions to the platform that you'd like to see.
Thanks!
Trevor and the Evolution Health Dev Team
Hi Everyone,
Great news! If you are using the Evolution Health version of our quit smoking program you now have access to our award winning text message (SMS) support program.
Based on your quit date, you will received targeted messages for the first two months of your quit. If you are experiencing severe withdrawal you can text the following keywords to us for instant support: edgy, craving, alcohol, smokers, stress, motivate, slip.
To turn on the service, navigate to your quit smoking home page and turn the Text Message Support program "on":
There is no cost to use the service, however message and data rates from your mobile phone provider may apply. Please send us any questions, comments, or ideas in how we can improve this program and help others!
Trevor
Hi Everyone,
Great news! If you are using the Evolution Health version of our quit smoking program you now have access to our award winning text message (SMS) support program.
Based on your quit date, you will received targeted messages for the first two months of your quit. If you are experiencing severe withdrawal you can text the following keywords to us for instant support: edgy, craving, alcohol, smokers, stress, motivate, slip.
To turn on the service, navigate to your quit smoking home page and turn the Text Message Support program "on":
There is no cost to use the service, however message and data rates from your mobile phone provider may apply. Please send us any questions, comments, or ideas in how we can improve this program and help others!
Trevor
