If you want to stop smoking, you have to understand what reasons you started for. In my case, the causes of cigarette smoking were pretty normal of an American teenager: I wished to be awesome. My buddies and I would head out, play pool, and have a some cigarettes together. It was relaxing, and it made us feel like we were rebelling. It was a great social bonding experience, and I came to link cigarettes with happy times. This is why it was so hard for me to give up smoking: I had so many positive associations with it.
When I lastly decided to stop smoking, I learned regarding routine, one of the worst causes of smoking cigarettes. Literally I was great. I felt a little bit anxious, but I didn't have the intense nicotine cravings that some smokers describe. What made it complicated, nevertheless, was the practice of the daily routine. There are so many times during the day when I used to light up. I would have a smoke first thing in the morning before work, at lunch time, in the evening over a cup of wine - you get the idea. It was habit more than anything else that was the cause of smoking in my case. I didn't have to crack a physical dependency, however I did need to break something virtually as tough-- the force of routine behavior.