ssSmoking - Lemme blog about it

I said I’ll be writing about the main site tools. Sorry it took so long. Buuut, I see ppl, smokers , are starting to use it already. That’s nice! .

The thing is it’s so easy to use it as I will probably be boring you. If you’d like to do smth else instead, smoke one for us and track it on Ssmoking counters. .

When you first go to the page, you’ll see how others are doing… how much they smoked and when they last smoked:

Move your mouse over somebody’s name and you’ll see some quick stats . If you find it hard to count the number of cigarettes displayed, don’t do it!! . Just hover the images of the cigarettes and you’ll see it in numbers .

Creating a new account is as simple as 1-2-3. Smoking is what you do so we won’t be trying to teach you how to smoke (actually, we’d prefer to make you stop ). After you smoked, log into the site and you’ll have three buttons available:

Press “I just smoked” if … go figure… you just smoked .
Press “I smoked…” to open a dialog where you can specify how many cigarettes you smoked recently:

Press “Show me reports” to get to see all your smoking tracking, in a nice visual way:

Note that the reporting stuff starts with the current day, but you can click the links on the top of the reporting window to see the status for the current week, current month, even this year, last year, next year (and this enumeration is making me dizzy )… so whatever you like. It’s actually pretty neat and very useful (to me at least).

For example, if you’re wondering how to see how much you smoked yesterday, go to reports, click “Show month” and then you’ll notice that you get how many cigarettes you smoked each day. Want more? Wanna see hours just like for today? Well, just click the day you’re interested in . Of course, you need to have smoked in that day… otherwise there were nothing to be displayed now, would it? :-)) .

Don’t miss out on the what “You lost” section in the reports dialog! Now that’s something which is suppose to make you wonder why the heck are you still smoking! . What it does is calculate … you know… what you’ve lost ’cause of smoking:
-> Time
-> Money
-> LIFE

It is said that it takes the regular smoker 5 minutes to smoke a cigarette and that he loses 7 minutes of his life. Also, a single cigarette costs me 15 cents (yeah, I know, I have a special supplier :-)) - comment my post and you’ll get his phone number :-)) ). What the site does is just a simple math operation. Nothing fancy, but it sure does raise my awareness. For instance, today I’ve just lost an hour and 15 minutes smoking, 2,25 bucks and an hour and 45 minutes of my life. Hey, that ain’t much but it’s just for a single day!!! Wanna really get a sense of reality? Well, do you?! Go ahead, use the site regularly for a couple of months and then click to see all year report. It will make the calculation based on all the cigarettes you smoked this year… you’ll be… amazed, truly!!, of what you’re loosing!

Oh yeah, of course, if you don’t like the average numbers the site is using, you can change’em on the same report page. Just go ahead and enter whatever numbers suit you. The calculations will get updated in a sec right in front of your eyes .

As always, your feedback is more than appreciated.