QuitDay is an independent, volunteer run organization which began as a collaboration between students from University of Washington and Portland State University. As part of an ongoing effort by United States universities to combat student and faculty smoking at institutions of higher education, they organized to provide smoking cessation resources available to anyone around the world. Their goal is to not only to end smoking in universities, but to provide education and support to individuals and families who are smoking who wish to quit smoking.
An estimated 41,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases as the result of Secondhand Smoke. The chemicals released from secondhand smoke pose a very real danger to those in the close proximity of a smoker.