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Bucket List: 

If you've quit or are planning to you can work on that Bucket List. What things have your done since you've quit to mark off items on your bucket list or what are you hoping to accomplish once you've quit? Share in the Commen

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Rendering:
Yes, I also wondered what it meant as well. To summarize, as American's we see 50% of an animal as being inedible. Rendering can utilize this food waste to produce other products to reduce or eliminating food waste. Rendering r

High Five Day:
Have you been high fiving everyone you see today? If not, you should get on it! Seems like a fun time! If you participated. Tell us how many high fives you gave today. If they also quit tobacco they count double.

Look Alike Day:
Have a Doppe

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It's time to eat a banana and cook with some garlic today to celebrate the foods of the day. If you've quit smoking your taste buds have hopefully adjusted so you can enjoy both of these foods.

Have any favorite recipes that inc

Hoping you have your 2022 Taxes done.  If not, you still have time to do it. Understandably it can be stressful for many to get completed but it's not a reason to return to tobacco products. There's other things to celebrate.

Actually, on Sunday, I was i

Greetings Fabulous EXers!

When you join the EX Community you're assigned a standard avatar from a library of illustrations. They're plain in comparison to the unique ones that others choose. Some people do update them but others do not.  There are likely m

At BecomeAnEX, we are committed to helping our members on their nicotine free journey. It’s our goal to be accessible, informative, and easy to use. We accomplish this with user-centered design. 

User-centered design incorporates user needs, preferences,

If you currently use Chantix, we want you to be aware that you should talk with your doctor. Check out the news brief on WebMD.

We’re glad you’re here on the spiffy new EX Community! Thanks for patiently waiting the last few days while we got the new site up. 

We moved a lot of content over to the new site. Please understand that there may be some “dust settling.” We’re working di

This is my third and final post about the EX Community move to a new platform. You can read the two previous posts I made on March 3 and March 8.

The migration is starting late evening on 3/14/21.

We anticipate that it’s going to take 36+ hours to make the

Our move to a new community platform is next week! I shared a LOT of details about what to expect in my first post on March 3. Please read that if you haven’t seen it yet, or refer back to it.

This post is focused on what you need to do before March 14.

1. Sa

The week of March 15th, the EX Community will be moving to a new platform! I’ll be posting twice more with details and instructions. Here’s what you need to know:

1. There will be some downtime (we’re keeping it as short as possible)

Our team will start the w

Thanks for using our program. We're always looking to help new people and appreciate hearing feedback on how our program has helped you on your quit journey. Since this is the community, we often get comments on how the EX Community contributes to people'

We're continually updating BecomeAnEX.org and making the site more secure. While much of these efforts happen behind the scenes to protect your data we also have some efforts that are user-facing.  On February 25th we'll be making some changes that will r

Our very own Megan (exproductmgr‌), product lead here at Truth Initiative for BecomeAnEX and many other amazing projects, is in the running for 2019 NGEN Leadership Award for her role in This Is Quitting.  Please watch her video submission and visit the p

Updated: 6/20/19: We have completed the private message import. Email notifications should resume to normal.

Updated 6/19/19: We have some more private messages to migrate as we were not able to get them all migrated by morning.  Once they are all migrated

It's World No Tobacco Day!

If you've been with us for a while you've probably given up tobacco for good. If you're just joining or have joined recently you have probably recently given up tobacco or on the verge.  Maybe today is your day or maybe it's tomo

Update 4/5/19: Message Board Comments are now all loaded. We've hit a snag with importing Private Messages so the data migration is done for the time being.

As previously communicated we began migrating some old forum posts from the previous platform. Toni

Tonight we’ll start migrating Private Messages, Status Updates and Forum posts from the previous community platform for members who participated prior to January 24, 2017. Those members will see their Inbox notifications numbers increase temporarily but y

If you're new here, you may be wondering what people experienced each day as they went through their quit journey.

You can find someone's Journals on their profile to find out but if you want to know how unique every journey is you can look at some of the

I want to thank all the members of EX for making the EX Community part of their quit journey. I am proud to interact with so many great people on a daily basis. It's pure pleasure to me to be able to facilitate this safe space where you all make amazing t

There is a lot to celebrate including your quit.  Join the fun by changing your avatar to include something fun and festive for the holidays. It doesn't matter what holiday you celebrate. Pick something you want to celebrate that is winter themed and put

On October 26, Jive (our EX Community platform) did a big release that included many features/functionality. Some of those things affected our community in really positive ways, and here's what they are!

• Blog posts should now post when they are scheduled.
• Y

Hi, EXers!

What's the best way you describe EX and the EX Community to other smokers you know? What inspired you to join EX or the EX Community? We want to hear it!

The EX Team is designing new wallet cards that will be available for sale to help promote th

Just a quick update about what's new in today's release (which was so fast, you likely didn't even notice it!). 

Our focus of this release was changes pertaining to sponsored users.

Here's what's new:

• We updated our privacy policy to fully inform users about

Over the course of the last year, you may have experienced a period of time where you weren’t earning any points. Some of you have experienced it multiple times. You may have given points with a badge and the points were debited from your account but neve

Three cheers to our development team, who continues to work hard to ensure that EX isn’t down long while we spiffy things up!

Our big focus of this release was making it easier to register and login on EX.

Here’s what’s new:

• If there’s an error when register

BecomeAnEX is committed to helping tobacco users in the US achieve their vision of a tobacco-free future. In light of a new international data protection law enacted by the European Union (EU), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are updatin

It's a beautiful cold and crisp day today in the Chicago area. Did you know it is International Women's Day today? We should acknowledge and celebrate the women in our lives every day but especially today, Our Great Grandmothers, Grandmothers, Mothers, Au

The EX Community is built around information sharing. New resources are shared daily for the benefit of everyone’s quit journeys. Lots of people post information and resources they’ve gotten from other places, mostly online, but sometimes also offline. Me