All good advice in here...smoke 30 smokes a day for about 10 years, and never wanted to quit but my kids made me promise not to smoke anymore...
Exercise is the best....sweating it out works for almost everythig...use the energy burst from the nicotine withdrawl to swim, run, hit the gym, whatever. Change the addiction, so that your response to the feen is exercise instead of cigarettes.
I also had to change my habits. I'd sit in the car when I got gas, because if I walked into the store I'd buy cigarettes - wouldn't think about, just walk out, light up, and then think wtf? Why did I buy cigarettes? Don't do drinking with the buddies for a bit - you'll be smoking in no time. Don't go outside with your co-workers when they take a smoke break or sit with them after a meal at a resturant - again, you'll be smoking in no time. It took a while until I was able to be around smokers again.
You'll obsess over it, until you forget about it, and then one day you'll wake up and realize that you haven't thought about cigarettes in a while, and then you'll start thinking about them. And then 6 months down the line you'll get a withdrawl out of no where. And then you'll have a cigarette and it will taste like crap, but you'll finish it, and you'll get sick. And then you'll wonder why you hate something so beautiful and why you love something so evil. Eventually though, it goes away. It's been about a year for me, and for some reason I still like the idea of smoking, but having a cigarette is just another choice throughout the day, and not having one is just as easy as having one.
They are right though - when you clear your system it is amazing to realize how much stronger everything smells and tastes, and how much more money you have to spend on less addicting things....like coffee
Good luck to you
