If you want to quit smoking to benefit a shelter, e-mail [log in to unmask] by Tuesday! The program goes live Sept. 1. Here's a repost of the pertinent info ... We only have a few quitters signed up so far, so join us! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoke-Out for shelters is a campaign to make ferret lovers (and hopefully their fuzzies, too) healthier, and earn a few bucks for some of our shelters! We will be accepting people into our team of "quitters" from now until September 1st. Quitters will have until December 1st to be completely quit. It's good timing -- a little holiday bonus you'll get by not buying cigs in December. On September 1, I'll put up a webpage with profiles of our quitters, with sponsorship information. Quitters are encouraged to go outside the online ferret community to seek sponsors also. To join our quitting team, e-mail [log in to unmask] Include your first name, e-mail address, how long you've been smoking*, and a little about your involvement with ferrets. A pic of yourself is encouraged, but not by any means required. Also tell us which shelter you plan to quit for -- quitter's choice! If you need help choosing a shelter, check the database at: http://ferretcentral.org/for-others/database.html (may not be the most current version). Also, give us contact information for one person who can vouch for you -- we're basically doing this on the honor system, but we'd like to have a voucher-person. Quitters and their voucher-people will be e-mailed on December 1st to confirm the quit and again on December 7th to verify no backsliding. If this is the gentle kick in the posterior you need to put down the cancer-sticks, e-mail [log in to unmask] to join our team! If the fund-raiser is successful, we'll do it again next year. Feel free to cross-post this everywhere! -kat- *I feel this will be a good motivator for some sponsors to pledge higher -- if someone knows the quitter's been puffing away for 20 or more years, it might up the bid a bit. [Posted in FML issue 4619]