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It only seems like shekerra has been a member at Experts Exchange forever. A week or so ago, she sent us a link to a website she has been working on, which prompted us to ask her about it.
Who's involved in ciggyfree.org?
Right now ciggyfree is a one woman show! I hope to get more people involved as this site grows. I do have interested *lurkers* and people who choose not to disclose their identities (they send information, site suggestions or requests).
I also know people who have serious smoking-related complications. I know of a young guy who has Buerger's disease. This particular disease is strongly associated with smoking. By the age of 22 he had his left leg amputated six inches below his knee.
I quit smoking over two years ago. Though I never really was a heavy smoker, I still think I sustained some damage from smoking (Raynaud's Disease). I anticipate more people will be involved as this site grows. In anticipation of this possible growth, our hosting company moved us to a better server with higher bandwidth so uptime looks good.
What made you decide to put the site together?
I lost my father-in-law to small cell lung cancer. Before he died he begged me to remember what smoking did to him. I never forget the horrific smell of this type of cancer. I remember watching him waste away as he agonizingly tried to draw in more oxygen and knowing that his death could have been avoided had he not smoked.
This site started small with just a few simple articles. With over eighteen months of information I currently use a Mambo backend.
What are you trying to accomplish?
I am trying to discern what type of smokers we have out there. We have generations of smokers where the DNA is skewed and they may have been born into a life of addiction. We have first generation smokers who became enticed by big tobacco and the glamour of it all.
I strongly believe that there are specific categories of smokers who also find it impossible to quit because of genetics. Tobacco is lethal when it is smoked. Four thousand compounds have been identified in tobacco smoke and at least 43 chemicals in tobacco smoke have been determined to be carcinogenic.
I am also a strong advocate of educating the smoker/ex-smoker on how smoking interacts with the human body and what it does to our blood and organs. There is the brain-dopamine connection too that is affected by nicotine and may be responsible for certain aspects of addiction.
Each year, the equivalent of a large city dies from tobacco use globally. The World Health Organization has reported that unless we take every action to change the trend, 250,000,000 children alive today eventually will die from smoking. I feel it is important that smokers be informed and that we protect our youth. I also strongly believe that the rest of us should protect our environment from second hand smoke.
What makes your site different from other sites that have the same or similar goals?
Ciggyfree is mainly an informational quit-smoking support site. We have plenty of information, forums, a chat room, a monthly newsletter, a Yahoo support group, and a supportive atmosphere. There are many other sites that have attracted my attention and Ciggyfree is currently linked to them.
The two sites that have very different goals from Ciggyfree but work exceptionally well for a particular segment of quitters are Cognitive Quitting and WhyQuit, run by Joel Spitzer and John Polito.
The Cognitive Quitting program is a 'body based' approach to smoking and quitting. I have a deep amount of respect for the site owner. If we end up with people trying to quit who would benefit from a cognitive approach, we would definitely direct them to the Cognitive quit site.
WhyQuit is based on quitting cold turkey and on education. They have vast amounts of educational materials. Though Joel and I never saw eye to eye, his method works for so many people. If we get the cold turkey type at Ciggyfree, we will direct them to Whyquit.
I think Ciggyfree is different because there is no *one best method of quitting* -- the quitting approach is "different strokes for different folks". It is trying to figure out what strokes will work and for who...
Atabia posted a New To EE question several months ago; we've done some editing for length, but the advice is still sound.
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What do you call it when two problems meet head-on
and it involves someone you're very familiar with? The newsletter had an item
a couple of weeks ago about MySpace.com and the fact that there are a lot of
not-very-nice people posing as teenagers. Now comes a story about how
someone posted a web page as if they were Armstrong and
Getty (who I listen to once in a while), but made up some horrible stuff
and put up some doctored photographs. There were also threats on Armstrong's
life; they found out about it when listeners called into their radio show
to tell them about it.
This is scary -- although I'll bet there are tons of parents out there who will sign up for this in a heartbeat. There are companies in the United Kingdom who will track someone through his or her cell phone. The companies that do it say there are safeguards in place -- but tell that to anyone who has had their luggage searched at an airport lately. Given that governments seem to have no problem tapping phones and intercepting emails, it's a small step to tracking people's movements using their cell phones.
An item came through the other day that said that Google is now offering a web creator and 100 mb of storage to their GMail members. The day the item came out, I went to look but got a message that they were too busy, but when I finally did get in, I found a nice simple interface that makes it pretty easy to put something together. Don't go getting all excited, though -- you're stuck with the layouts they want, and style sheets don't work.
A couple of weeks ago, the PowerBall lottery jackpot was over $300 million, and I was ready to hop in the car and drive to either Arizona or Oregon (I called a friend in the Midwest instead, and STILL didn't win). But it looks like the treasurers of some states want to make it a lot easier for me to give them some of my money, because they're now taking a look at online lotteries since the revenues of traditional games has been decreasing. How about just making the odds a little better? Of course, there's always a spoilsport.
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