QuitForecast

Observation, not willpower.

See your recovery coming.

The whole road back, dated and cited, from the first minutes to the years after. For quitting smoking, vaping, alcohol, cannabis or caffeine. On iPhone.

If this is attempt three or four, you are who it was built for.

Free to download. The counter, every SOS tool and the crisis lines stay free permanently.

The Today screen. A ring counting 56 days clean, and
                    beside it a twenty-four hour clock face with hour marks,
                    an amber arc over the coming window, a cream dot at the
                    current time, and the words Window soon.

Your clean time, and the two hours your own log named. Real screens; the log is a demonstration, not a person's.

The idea

Quitting isn't a fight you white-knuckle.

It's a chance to finally know yourself, and this whole app is built for that.

Watch a craving move through you. What it's made of, how it rises and breaks. What you understand can't own you.

Nothing gets added. Something gets removed: receptors reset, sleep returns, mood lifts. You are not building a better you. You are getting yours back.

See first. Correct second. Correction that skips the watching is just willpower, and willpower is what you already tried.

The setup screen asking What are you quitting, listing
                  Smoking, Vaping, Alcohol, Cannabis and Caffeine, each with
                  its own icon.

The counter

A clock, not a scoreboard.

Your clean time, your money back, and every system healing underneath.

A counter that resets to zero has told you the last forty days did not happen. They happened. After a slip the button says what it does: Restart my clock, keep my history.

A tin counts the money you stopped spending. A slip never empties it: what you are saving for should never pay for one hard night.

Under the clock, every system the habit was leaning on heals on its own dated road. The finished ones say Recovered. The rest show how far along you are, and opening one names what the habit was doing to you and what is healing now.

Recovery curves are drawn from cited findings and interpolated between them, not a measurement of your body.

The Recovery systems card on Today. Carbon monoxide
                    clearance, heart rate and blood pressure, sleep quality
                    and taste and smell are marked Recovered. Nicotinic
                    receptor reset, at 92 percent, is open to its curve from
                    day zero to day ninety with a marker labelled you at day
                    56. Below it, What it was doing and What's healing explain
                    the extra receptors and their reset.

One system opened to its road. A demonstration history, not a person's.

The timeline

The whole road, dated.

Read day three before you live it.

Open any stage: what is healing, what you might feel, and in the hard early hours, what helps now. The studies sit under each one.

Minutes in, you still feel fine, and the app puts that to work: Clear them out first: the pack, the spare in the car, the lighters, the ashtrays.

Every hour of it

There on minute one, and it never scolds.

The recovery timeline for the first day, with the twenty-minute
                    milestone open and titled The healing begins. Inside it: What's
                    healing, heart rate and blood pressure begin dropping back
                    toward your true baseline. What you might feel, you feel fine,
                    still riding the decision. What helps now, a paragraph telling
                    you to clear out the pack, the spare in the car, the lighters
                    and the ashtrays while you still feel fine, and to decide now
                    what you will do when the first craving lands. A line beneath
                    reads Evidence 1, 2, 21. Collapsed below it: one hour,
                    circulation waking up; two hours, nicotine halved; four hours,
                    three-quarters gone.

The timeline starts the minute you set a quit date.

Craving SOS

The wave, timed.

One clock rides the whole wave. You don't get to call it over early; you outlast it.

A craving crests and breaks in minutes whether or not you fight it. So ride it: breathe, scan, ground, or play a game until it dies. At zero the clock says Outlasted.

Urge surfing and game distraction are studied technique, and every tool cites its sources in the app.

You're the one watching. It's the one passing.

Every tool here is free, and so are the crisis lines, always one tap away. The worst ten minutes of your week are not a sales moment.

The Craving SOS screen. It opens: this wave will crest and fade
                  in a few minutes whether or not you fight it. Stay busy while it
                  dies. Pick a tool. A card headed This wave, timed shows 4:51
                  running, and under it the line: your last 6 timed SOS rides
                  ended in about 3 minutes, with Evidence 25, 22, 29, 30. Then a
                  group headed Sit with it holding four tools: Breathe, Body scan,
                  5 senses and Study. A second group below reads Distract
                  yourself.

Rebuild

The hole it leaves has four names.

Reward, connection, meaning, competence. The habit was faking all four.

The weeks between cravings decide this. A catalogue of real moves rebuilds each one, stating two plain facts before you commit: how long it takes, and how much nerve it asks. The scale rates the move, never you.

One ladder is the whole idea made literal: sit with yourself for ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. That restlessness is the exercise, not a sign to stop.

The catalogue, filtered by section and by nerve. Cards
                  reading Move your body, 10 min, Quiet; Get into nature,
                  20 min, Quiet; Cook a real meal, 45 min, Quiet.

Apple Health

You already have a before.

Fourteen days you did not know you were recording.

Heart, lungs, breath and blood chart themselves against your own baseline from the two weeks before you quit, with what research expects printed beside your line. Your chart is allowed to disagree.

Needs an Apple Watch or similar. Read fresh from Apple Health on every visit and never stored: no series on your phone, none in the backup, nothing to leak.

The Health tab. A heading reading There is no improved you
                      at the end of this, and under it a resting heart rate
                      card, charting a dashed pre-quit baseline, a marker at the
                      day you stopped, and a falling line after it.

A demonstration chart: nothing is stored, so there was no saved series to photograph. The chart, the baseline and the citation are real; the numbers are not somebody's.

A heart rate variability card with its chart, and beneath
                      it a block headed What research expects reading: nicotine
                      suppresses HRV, studies show it climbing within days to
                      weeks of stopping, one of the earliest measurable wins.
                      Evidence 26.

The structure is the point: what the research expects sits under the chart, with its source, so the two can be read against each other.

The heading at the top of that tab is the app's own: there is no improved you at the end of this. Only you, uninterrupted.

Your watch has been keeping a record since before you decided. Put it to work.

The craving log

Your habit has a shape.

Two hours out of your own log, and it would rather say nothing than guess.

Two taps to log a craving. The app finds the hours yours gather, the triggers that cost you most, and the two that tend to arrive together. Nothing is borrowed from an average: it is your record speaking, or nothing. Silence is a reading.

The everyday reading counts your last thirty days; a weekday pattern needs your last eight of that weekday.

Once your hours are real, the app tells you before they arrive, and again just before they open, with the move you picked while you were calm. Meet the hour knowing it is yours.

How the window is found

A twenty-four hour dial with a craving log drawn on it Cravings appear as dots around a ring of the day, midnight at the top. Most are scattered. Seven gather between 8 PM and 10 PM, and an amber arc resolves over those two hours once there are enough of them to be worth saying. 12am 6am 12pm 6pm 8–10 PM
  • Until your pattern clears every statistical test, the app says nothing at all.
  • There is no red on the dial. Only your hours, and now.
  • 7 of your last 9 days had a craving between 8 PM and 10 PM.

A demonstration log, one that happens to peak in the early evening. Yours will name different hours.

The window card, open, reading: You are in your window.
                  This is the stretch that has been hardest. It builds, it
                  peaks, it passes. Below it, a Patterns card listing four
                  measured facts from the same log.

The log is free, and the two hours come from your own taps.

Privacy

Nothing leaves.

No account, because there is nothing to sign in to. Your record lives on your phone.

Six things can leave, and each one is a thing you do on purpose: an iCloud backup, into your own private database that we cannot read; a post to the community board, under an anonymous identifier that is never your name; a vote on somebody else's post, stored under that same identifier so a tap can be taken back; a report, if you flag a post for review; a feedback message, if you write one; and a support conversation, if you start one, addressed by a random ID that is never your name. That is the whole list.

Reading the board sends nothing.

This page is part of the same promise. It loads no fonts, no executable script and no trackers, and sets no cookies. Its own content policy tells the browser to refuse them, so it is enforced rather than promised. Read the privacy policy, which is short and in plain words.

Settings

Everything loud is off by default.

The rest of it, one line each.

Voices

Normal, Cheeky, Strict coach.

Packs

Stoic, Christian, Islamic, Jewish. The picker's first row is Off.

iCloud backup

Off by default.

The board

Read it without an account. Posting is anonymous by design.

Widgets

A widget for your home screen, and a live count on your lock screen through the first three days.

Apple Watch

One-tap logging from the wrist.

Notifications

Opt in. At most one per habit per day.

Yours to take

Export a spreadsheet, or delete everything.

Price

The floor is free.

Everything you reach for on a bad night costs nothing, permanently.

Not a trial. Nothing on the free floor expires.

Free, no matter what

  • Your clean-time counter and the day-level milestone timeline
  • Every SOS craving tool, and the crisis lines
  • All four faith and philosophy packs
  • The full export, and delete everything

Premium

  • Your craving window: the two hours, the dial, and the heads-up before they open
  • The hour-by-hour timeline, with the studies under each milestone
  • Every recovery curve, and your five Health cards
  • The full Rebuild catalogue

Most of these habits run to thousands a year. The app asks $39.99 of it.

Best value $39.99 a year billed once a year
$9.99 a month cancel any month
$99.99 once and nothing renews

One person built QuitForecast, after quitting himself. No ads, nothing about you for sale: your subscription is the whole business model, and it is what builds the app.

Subscriptions renew until you cancel, in your Apple account settings; cancel and it runs out at the end of the term you paid for.

In this first release, everything above is open. The paid split arrives in an update, and the free floor never moves.

If your log never clears the bar, no window ever appears, and it is not being withheld from you: it does not exist. The rest of Premium stands either way. The window is the one part the app will not fake to look like it is working.

A person answers.

Inside the app, with no ticket number.

Settings, then Get help. Usually you hear back within a day, and anonymous feedback has its own channel beside it.