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37 days into quitting smoking and the HRV change has been one of the most noticeable physical improvements. my resting heart rate dropped and the weird chest tightness i thought was normal for years just disappeared. been tracking it daily with my quit app (built it myself after 4 failed attempts) and the data is genuinely motivating. the heart-brain connection is real when you take nicotine out of the equation
the privacy-first approach resonates. built a quit-smoking tracker 37 days ago after my 4th failed attempt, and one of the main reasons i built my own was that none of the existing apps felt safe to log my daily struggle into. health data is the most intimate kind of data and most apps treat it like just another analytics pipeline. this is the right way to build health tools
this is a solid breakdown of the math behind it. i built a quit-smoking tracker recently (day 36 after 12y of smoking) and went through the same process of figuring out the edge cases - unit conversions, what to show vs what to hide. the WHO category boundaries are surprisingly nuanced when you actually implement them. nice work
the wall staring thing is real. day 36 off cigarettes after 12y of smoking and the biggest change is what i do with the gaps. used to step out for a smoke 5-6 times a day. now i just sit there. first week it felt empty and anxious. now its the only time my brain actually processes stuff. scrolling wouldve killed that completely. the office vs wfh comparison is spot on too. i built my own quit tracker because none of the existing apps worked for me, and the same principle applies — sometimes the best tool is the one that just gets out of your way and lets you sit with the discomfort.
after 12 years of marlboro Reds i became obsessed with what my lungs were actually doing. the thing that surprised me most? walking up stairs 2 weeks after quitting and realizing my lungs were working at maybe 60% before and i just... normalized it. anyone else shocked by how much lung capacity they'd lost without noticing?
quitbot's approach of 32 tailored conversations is smart — the one-size-fits-all apps always lost me around week 2. i ended up building my own tracker after 12 years of marlboro reds and 4 failed quit attempts because nothing adapted to my actual patterns. the 24/7 availability point is key though — 3am cravings don't wait for clinic hours. curious if anyone here has actually tried quitbot and stuck with it past the first month?
i tried herbal cigarettes during my 3rd quit attempt. they taste like burning grass and the hand-to-mouth ritual just reinforced the craving instead of replacing it. switched to cinnamon sticks after that — weird but it actually helped more than any "healthy cigarette" alternative. anyone else find that mimicking the smoking action makes quitting harder, not easier?
this hit me hard in week 1. i thought i was actually sick — sore throat, headaches, felt like a cold that wouldnt go away. had no idea it was a thing until someone in r/stopsmoking mentioned it. day 30 now and the flu is long gone but those first 5 days were rough. anyone else mistake it for a regular cold at first?
running WCAG + EN 301 549 + RGAA simultaneously is genuinely useful — most tools pick one standard and ignore the rest. the real question is how you handle conflicting criteria between them. RGAA has some requirements that go beyond WCAG in specific ways. does your tool surface those differences or just merge everything into one list?
