Your Dashboard (Free!)
Look, I’m not a sales guy — and I don’t want to make any wild claims here, trying to squeeze addicts for money. But I think with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears that I have managed to make something that is what you’d easily pay ten bucks for otherwise. My plan (because in addition to not being a sales guy, I am not a businessman) is to give it away for free (eventually a pittance to cover costs) to publicize my book, and I see no reason why it won’t exist permanently and just get better and more polished.
There’s even an app for your phone (you just have to install it manually right now until I launch on the App Stores). This is the app I sought out when I was trying to quit, but the price for what you got seemed insultingly stupid so I never used a tracker or a log despite seeing great value in them. Feel free to tell me what sucks and what should be added. But it’s usable right now and anything you do with it now should not ever be reset. Here’s what you get in the dashboard:
A streak counter that shows you personalized gains.
A cravings logger, tracker, and analyzer. You can see your peak times, and even analyze them using custom tools and a heat map.
The ability to do pledges, send yourself letters or postcards in the future, and much more of the kind of self-motivational stuff some other sites offer. There is even a bit of a community vibe built in if people start using these tools. Tell me if you have any more ideas, this kind of thing is only limited by our mutual imaginations.
It’s hooked into a web tool (I call it a “map”) that updates you with little research-backed pros and cons for where your body is right now, which to me is real motivation — and incredibly useful when something feels wrong and you don’t know why.
It lets you keep up with your progress in using the real research-based tools elsewhere on the site, so that the sober toolkit you are building is accessible all in one place.
It’s connected to things like the emergency HALT tool you used, reminding you of what worked recently.
So go get it! Break it, mess it up, see what flies and what doesn’t. Let me know and I’ll make it better and send it back out there, getting better each time. I hope it helps you and everyone else to quit!