Step 1 · Where you are now
This is the maths behind your smoking — not a lecture on why you should quit. The Skillpower method starts with facts about your own habit. Fill this in and you'll see, in your own currency, what smoking is costing you right now.
Your baseline
📖 Book — Step 1: "Where you are now." Rate your motivation and read about the five stages of change. You don't need a willpower problem solved — you need a maths problem solved.
Step 2 · How you learned to smoke
You learned to smoke by pairing it with people, places, and feelings — like Pavlov's bell. To un-learn it, we first catch it in the act. Log every one for 3 to 7 days. Each one takes about five seconds. Don't change your smoking — just record it honestly.
Cigarette, vape, pouch or roll-up — the diary asks the same four questions and builds the same map. The device is just the needle; the hook underneath is identical, so the fix is identical.
Step 3 · The willpower trap
This is your Trigger Map — built automatically from your own diary. Smokers who fight the general urge with willpower lose. Smokers who dismantle these specific triggers, one at a time, win.
Step 4–6 · Beliefs, nicotine & the world that sells you smoking
For each of your top triggers, here's the reality behind the "benefit" you think it gives you — and a space to write your own plan. This is you taking the cigarette down off the pedestal, one trigger at a time.
Step 7 · Getting ready to quit
There's nothing to give up — only illusions to let go of. Pick the day you smoke your last cigarette. Then write, in your own words, what life as a smoker actually feels like. You'll keep this list ready for the days ahead.
Smoke the last one with full attention. Put it out. Say the sentence. Then press this — once.
📖 Book — Step 7: "Getting ready to quit." Realise there's nothing to give up, avoid all substitutes, and set your date.
Step 8 · Life after your last cigarette
Everything you're winning back — updating in real time from the moment you quit.
Every other app counts the days you've survived. This one counts what you're winning. Nobody has to grit their teeth to receive a gift — be happy, not deprived.
Money not spent on smoking, projected forward.
Evidence-based milestones (NHS / CDC / US Surgeon General). Filled dots are already behind you.
Step 9 · Staying free
Three things to remember: there are no benefits to smoking, physical withdrawal is mild and nearly over in three days, and the second you put out that last cigarette you were already a non-smoker. Keep celebrating the decision.
Every other app resets your counter to punish you. This one doesn't. Your days are safe. A slip is information: log it, see which trigger caught you, strengthen that plan, and carry on from where you were. Catching it early is what keeps a slip from becoming a relapse.
Your data
Everything stays on this phone — no account, no cloud. Phones sometimes clear website data when storage runs low, so keep a backup file: it holds your whole diary, plans and quit clock, and restores everything in one tap.
Prototype · Skillpower method by Aslam Goolam Hoosen. All figures are estimates for motivation, shown with their assumptions — not medical advice or a guarantee of individual outcomes. Everything runs and stays on this device — offline, no account, no cloud. (It'll run in a bunker. It'll run on the moon.) If you have medical concerns about quitting, speak with a clinician.
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