The EX Plan

The EX Plan is a free quit smoking program, one that can show you a whole new way to think about quitting. It’s based on personal experiences from ex-smokers as well as the latest scientific research from the experts at Mayo Clinic.

The EX Plan helps you see quitting not as one big war, but as a number of little battles you can actually win. And the secret to winning these battles is re-learning your life without cigarettes. The EX Plan has three main steps.

1. How to Quit Smoking

You start in the How To Quit Smoking section, where you’ll look at your smoking patterns and identify your triggers — those things that make you want to smoke — and you’ll re-learn how to handle them without cigarettes. As you complete this section, you’ll find your confidence start to grow and you’ll begin to believe, "Hey, I can do this."

You’ll also learn about nicotine addiction and how smoking actually changes your brain, making it harder to quit. We’ll talk about medications that can help DOUBLE your chances of success.

And finally, you’ll also learn how important it is to surround yourself with people who support your quitting. There are already lots of them nearby in our online EX Community. We’ll also let you know what to say to the people who aren’t that supportive.

2. Quit Smoking

After you’ve completed all your preparation, you move to the Quit Smoking section. In this step, you’ll set your quit-smoking date and then put into practice all the things you’ve learned. You’ll discover that all the prep work you’ve done will make quitting a lot less stressful.

3. Staying Quit

And finally, in Staying Quit, you’ll learn how to keep your new non-smoking life, make sure the weight stays off and start stacking up the rewards and benefits of being an ex-smoker.

The best place to start becoming an EX is to register. (It’s free, easy and confidential.) Once you’ve registered, the My Quit Plan page lets you customize your personal EX Quit Plan, save your info and track your progress.

If you’re not ready to sign up yet, that’s fine, too. Just click on any of the sections to learn more about the EX Plan. And if you’re not a computer person, click to download the EX Quit Smoking Manual or the bilingual EX Quit Smoking Fotonovela.

BOTTOM LINE: Whether this is your first try or your 10th, the free EX Plan can help you really quit smoking this time.

Listen to Jason, a real ex-smoker, talk about the EX Plan.