WhyQuit.com is an all-volunteer labor of love. It has no property, income, debts or accounts. It is simply an association of humanitarians who volunteer their time and energy in helping those dependent upon nicotine to break free, while encouraging youth and young adults to never start.

No volunteer associated with WhyQuit.com or Turkeyville on Facebook or Joel's YouTube videos has ever accepted any income, fees or financial donation from any source in connection with their work or service to these sites. All work is entirely volunteer and pro bono. The modest annual expenses associated with operating WhyQuit are paid by the site's volunteers.

Although thousands of WhyQuit links open to websites which sell products or services, or solicit donations, all offers of cash donations to WhyQuit are declined, and WhyQuit itself has nothing for sale.

Any commercial advertising seen at Turkeyville on Facebook or on Joel Spitzer's YouTube channel is controlled by Facebook or YouTube respectively. Turkeyville and Joel's YouTube video collection have no control over the products or services advertised by Facebook or YouTube, nor has any person associated with these sites received any income from any host or advertiser.

Turkeyville on Facebook has two volunteer managers, Joy Kauffman and Sallie Hamilton, and one volunteer director, John R. Polito. None of Turkeyville's current or former managers or directors have ever accepted any form of compensation or payment for their work at WhyQuit, Turkeyville or YouTube.

Joel Spitzer is an expert cessation educator who volunteered as a pro bono consultant to WhyQuit from 2000 to 2020, where his articles, videos and discussions are freely shared. Joel officially retired on December 27, 2020.

As paid professional staff, Joel Spitzer served as Smoking Programs Coordinator for the American Cancer Society, Chicago Unit, Illinois Division from September of 1977 to November of 1978. He worked as Quit Smoking Programs Coordinator for the Rush North Shore Medical Center as paid staff from November 1978 until July 2000. Joel served as a smoking prevention and cessation consultant to the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services from 2000 until 2008, and served as consultant to the Skokie Health Department from 2002 until January 2007. He was compensated by each department and compensation was never dependent upon or in any manner tied to the number of participants attending his 13-day stop smoking clinics, where they resided, or how they found the program.

John R. Polito is the 1999 founder of the WhyQuit website. John has presented free, periodic community-based nicotine cessation programs since April 2001. From 2003-06 he conducted free bi-monthly nicotine cessation seminars on behalf of the College of Charleston's Counseling and Substance Abuse Services in Charleston, SC, where from 2005-06 he was compensated under a grant from The American Cancer Society. John also presented paid private seminars. During 2007 and 2008 the South Carolina Department of Corrections hired John to present 63 nicotine cessation seminars to correctional officers, staff and inmates at 28 S.C. prisons. John's free pdf book is sold elsewhere. He has worked in grocery stores since 2015 where, prior to COVID-19, his customer service duties included the sale of tobacco and nicotine products.