quitnet is a good place, too - or was, when I relied on it, to help me through the transition. I'd had no trouble quitting, at 32, and stayed a non-smoker for ten years or so- and then started again, after succumbing for no good reason to "sharing a cigarette" with someone close. That was just a rapid fall.

This last time i stopped smoking, (after about three years back at it)it was much harder- much more intense cravings- and the feeling of having lost my 'best friend'. Also, the fear that I wouldn't be able to be creative, to think without a cigarette; all this, despite the fact that I'd been happily living as a non-smoker for what I expected to be the rest of my life.

Which is just to say that cigarettes are a "nicotene-delivery system" as insidious and crafty as is the whole realm of junk food, and even so-called "healthy", processed food of all kinds. They are designed to take prisoners,
(lifelong customers) and keep them. Really 'getting this' is what made all the world of difference, for me. (And quitnet laid it out.)

It's very much like when people pry themselves loose from Sugar substitutes and no-cal, and low-cal, SAD and all that jazz. You get your Self back. Nothing less, although at first you just deep breathe your way through withdrawal pangs. They do pass. You can measure it, the cravings will come and pass within three minutes. That can be good to know.

Best wishes with it! Remember to use EFT for assistance.
(I didn't know about it, this last time) Brushing teeth too, just with water, if you are fasting, can be a good transitional 'ritual' to take the place of the missing one. You can do this several times a day. Finally, you transmute
the quitting, and become a non-smoker. A very small adjustment in thinking, mainly, but a very fine tuning, as of a radio, to no static, and crystal clear.

It's no small potatoes, as they say, but we are powerful beings, way bigger than any habit.

Chiron