Millions of people are addicted to cigarettes and although many are perfectly happy with this situation, a large number are looking to break the habit and get away from the grip of nicotine. Quitomzilla 0.7.1 is a simple app designed as an add-on for the Firefox web browser which acts to incentivise the act of quitting and ideally help you get over your addiction. The market for those who want to give up smoking is almost as big as the tobacco market itself, but this is a free app that does not ask anything of its users other than a little will power and the chance to ditch their cigarettes for good.
Once you have downloaded Quitomzilla you can activate it in Firefox by visiting the Add-Ons menu which is accessible from the Tools dropdown. In this menu you can also alter the options and settings of the app, the main point of which is to allow you to either set a date upon which you intend to give up smoking up to a year into the future or, alternatively, enter the day on which you had your last cigarette. As long as you quit some time in the last 20 years, you can enter the quitting date down to the second and then get access to a wealth of encouraging information that is intended to bolster your confidence in your ability to keep away from cigarettes.
To make sure that Quitomzilla provides you with personalised information you will need to put in the average number of cigarettes you would smoke in a day and the amount of money each pack of cigarettes would cost in your local currency. There is a check box which lets the app notify you when you pass a significant milestone in your quitting process, adding even more encouragement to the mix and using the Paste Text option in Firefox allows you to dump all of this information into a website, so you can tweet or blog about your process in real time.
When Quitomzilla is active it will sit unobtrusively in the toolbar at the bottom of a standard Firefox browser window. Moving your mouse over the icon will let you see a popup that indicates how many cigarettes you would have smoked and money you would have spent if you had not quit, along with the time that has passed since your quit date. The text pasting feature works well in any text entry box on any website too and there is no need to manually refresh the details, as whenever you paste, it will pull the most current statistics in for you to share in whatever way you see fit.
Essentially this piece of software works very well on a purely technical level. There is no better way to remind yourself how much better your life can be without smoking, although whether it will be an effective way to actually stay off cigarettes or a temporary distraction is difficult to say and will likely be determined on an individual basis.