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QuitCount: what did I save since smoking?

Paul (my friend, not my son) said to me some time ago, “Still obsessed with smoking, I see ;-)”. That made me realize that indeed, stopping smoking sometimes make me think more about it than I did when I smoked. I guess that’s rather logical, I’m still in the long process of readjustment (of my habits, my neurons and my brain). My sister quit years ago and still thinks of it from time to time, too. She showed me she still has a quit counter widget loaded on her Mac OS X, with really big numbers on it, and I looked for one on my XFCE desktop. I didn’t find any, though, so I wrote one myself :-)

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby present you QuitCount, a little piece of software that has no other practical value than keeping yourself motivated if you try and quit smoking, and in a second phase, impressing yourself with big numbers (I already didn’t inhale more than 12 grams of tar).

You can also use it as a start counter to see how much you smoked since you started, but don’t; that’s scary.

Translators and packagers welcomed!

Posted Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 08:10 in Computers, Personal.
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7 Responses to “QuitCount: what did I save since smoking?”

  1. iwkse Says:
    July 18th, 2009 at 15:10

    Nice Colin :)
    This idea is quite nice, I didn’t yet looked at the sources but I guess this is a standalone application and not an XFCE Panel plugin, right?

    Ciao
    Sal

  2. iwkse Says:
    July 18th, 2009 at 15:49

    Here’s for you the italian pack:)

    http://iwkse.homeunix.net/quitcount.it.po

  3. Colin Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 23:03

    Hey, thanks iwkse! Indeed, I’ve made it a standalone application, there was no advantage to link this to any desktop :)

  4. LeXa Says:
    August 12th, 2009 at 15:05

    Salut,

    J’ai justement installé ton soft sur mon kubuntu Jaunty, cela fonctionne à merveille ! Par contre ne n’es pas trop compris pourquoi au bout de 6 ou 7 jours, l’icone dans le systray à changé, c’est passé d’une cigarette à un pouce levé.
    Pourquoi donc ?

  5. Colin Says:
    August 12th, 2009 at 19:08

    LeXa, hello :)

    Cette icône signale un “anniversaire”, genre 1 semaine, 1 mois, 1 an, 1000 clopes pas fumées, etc. Normalement si tu passes la souris dessus ça te dit la raison.

  6. LeXa Says:
    August 12th, 2009 at 19:53

    Ha ok !
    En effet aujourd’hui c’est marqué “1 semaine”
    Mais hier c’était marqué “13h de gagné…” je voyais pas trop l’anniv dans ce cas là :-D
    Sympa ton compteur tout de même

  7. Colin Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 15:05

    Ah, ça doit être un bug ^^

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