Account  - You will have your own account on TaperOff.net. Your plan, sleep schedule, and notification information are stored safely on our server so nothing is kept on your computer at home or work.

Account Creation - The process of creating an account. From www.taperoff.net you will be taken through a simple sign-up wizard to create your account.

Account Status - From the 'Home' tab you can easily check the staus of your account. Your plan status shows whether you are in a plan, have completed your plan, or are waiting for your plan to start.  Your account status shows if you are using TaperOff.net as a demo or have purchased access.

Demo - You can use TaperOff.net for 4 days from the time you start your plan. Before your time has expired you will need to purchase TaperOff.net to continue using it.

Cigarettes Today - This is an estimate of how many cigarettes you are scheduled to smoke today. It's based on your sleep schedule and how far along in your plan you are.

Complete Schedule - This is a schedule of all your cigarettes for the day. Cigarettes you have smoked are shown "checked off". You can print this schedule to take with you, or email it to yourself.

Countdown Window  - This window shows the number of minutes until your next cigarette. Other information may be displayed here instead of a number. For example "??" means server is unavailable try again later. The symbol "--" is displayed when your next cigarette time has not been retrieved from the server yet. Just wait one minute and the minutes will return. The number "0" is displayed for 1 minute after you click the 'Ok' button. 

Cutoff - This is the approximate number of cigarettes you will smoke on the last day of your plan. It can vary by a couple of cigarettes depending on how many hours you will be awake on your last day. Some users only use TaperOff.net to reduce their smoking rather than quit and so set a rather high number as their cutoff. For example some heavy smokers need to reduce their smoking before they can switch to another method they prefer like patches. 

End Date - This is the last day you will smoke. If you relapse, you can delete your plan and then create a new plan.

Home - This tab shows the current status of your account, plan, cigarette count, and interval.

Notification - When the time is reached for your next cigarette, you can be notified by email or short message to your mobile phone. Notifications can easily be turned on and off from the 'Home' tab.

Plan - Your plan to quit smoking. Your plan includes the number of cigarettes you smoked before you started to quit, the date you started, the date you will quit, and the number of cigarettes you will smoke on your last day. Your schedule is your time zone information and sleeping schedule. When you delete your plan your schedule is not affected.

Promotional Code - This can be advertised discount code, a code supplied by an affiliated web site that is promoting TaperOff.net. It can also be a code given to you by your company or other organization if they have prepaid for you to use TaperOff.net.

Refresh my Status - Clicking 'Refresh my status' checks the server to see when it last updated your smoking schedule. If you walk away from your computer for some time, you can click 'Refresh my status' to bring your status up to date.

Registered User - As soon as you complete the sign-up wizard you are a registered user of TaperOff.net. At first you will bein the demo mode until you purchase access.

Scheduled Reduction - Gradually reducing your smoking until you quit. For more information click the Overview tab.

Schedule - Shows every cigarette you will smoke on a particular day. To see your schedule, click Home tab, then click 'Go!'

Start Date - The day you will begin your plan. Starting on this day all your cigarettes will be scheduled. When you complete the sign-up wizard, if you picked the day you run the wizard as your Start Date you will begin tapering off immediately.

Starting Habit - This is how many cigarettes you smoke now - before you begin to quit. You may need to do some counting or thinking before you choose a starting habit number. Try to choose a number that represents a typical day.

Time Between Cigarettes  - The number of minutes between each cigarette for a particular day.