WhyQuit.com is temporarily down

[Joel Spitzer]

Hello everyone. Just wanted to do a quick message here alerting everyone that WhyQuit.com seems to be offline. Not sure what the problem is yet but it has been down since last night. Not sure what the problem is yet.

 

I know that a few members and moderators here often direct people to articles and videos from WhyQuit.com. I have a partial backup way of getting to most articles and video pages.

 

For the normal Joels-videos index page, use this link: http://joelspitzer.com/joels-videos/

 

For most of the articles use this link: http://joelspitzer.com/ntapletters/#articles

The formatting will be off and some of the links inside those pages won’t work because they point back to whyquit.com but the videos and the articles on those pages are there. If nothing else, you could copy and paste the full article you need to address a topic.

 

One more trick that will get you a little more information. On the links that don’t work on the pages usually under “additional resources”, it is because they still link to whyquit.com. An example, the page from the other day on supercharging nicotine’s addictive potential ( http://joelspitzer.com/joels-videos/supercharging-nicotines-addictive-potential/ ) the first link under additional resources won’t work: https://whyquit.com/joels-videos/additive-free-cigarettes/ 

 

That is because the URL for the page begins with "https://whyquit.com”

 

If you replace the "https://whyquit.com” with “joelspitzer.com”, so the address then becomes http://joelspitzer.com/joels-videos/additive-free-cigarettes/ you will get access to the backup page. 

 

You don’t need to type the “http://" before “joelspitzer.com”. If you accidentally type “https://” instead of just “http://“ (adding an “s”) the page won’t load.

 

Sorry I know its a bit confusing but it works. 

Hopefully this will help until the site is up again.

 

If you have any question or problem finding a page or video feel free to message me and I will send you the correct links. 

 

Sorry for any inconvenience. 

Joel

Edited August 27, 2019 by Joel Spitzer

[Sazerac]

The video library on YouTube is running fine,

here is the link, 

Joel Spitzer's Stop Smoking Video Library - YouTube

 

Thank you for your work, Joel.

S

[Joel Spitzer]

Yes, the YouTube channel is fine. The problem seems to be on the hosting service for WhyQuit. It can be hard to find specific videos on the YouTube channel if you don't know the video's title. That is why I created the video index at WhyQuit. Actually, MarylandQuitter keeps a version of the index here at Quittrain here: https://www.quittrain.com/topic/9820-video-index/

Unfortunately, the links on that page all go to the WhyQuit site that is down. That is why I wanted to get an alternate source up and announced here for anyone who wants access to the materials. Again, I hope this resolve soon but with these kind of problems it sometimes takes a while to get them resolved. 

[Joel Spitzer]

The problem has been fixed. WhyQuit is back online. Sorry for any inconvenience or confusion that this may have caused anyone. 

[Ankush]

19 hours ago, Joel Spitzer said:

The problem has been fixed. WhyQuit is back online.

thats great!!!