Stop Smoking in One Day

First off, you must ask yourself the following questions:

a) Why do I smoke? Alternately; why did I start smoking? A basic understanding of your tobacco motivation is necessary, since there may or may not be underlying causes that need to be addressed to make it easier to stop - stress, peer pressure, etc.
b) Do I truly want to quit? If you don't, no amount of self-help advice is ever going to offer lasting assistance. Without the will, there is no way.



2. This is the easiest step, and also the hardest. It may seem to be a silly thing, but the point is to help you focus your will on a task considerably easier than "quitting smoking", while delivering the same results:

Don't think about quitting smoking; don't even worry about it, get it out of your mind for now. Apply your willpower to refusing to touch cigarettes. You're just not going to buy a pack today because you're not allowing yourself to come in contact with them. Don't worry about tomorrow, that will take care of itself. Just for today, don't buy cigarettes, don't bum them from others, they are untouchable just for today.

Do that every day and eventually you won't have to do it any more.

3. This method sounds hokey on the surface, but what it does is keep your mind distracted from the physical habit of smoking by controlling your access to cigarettes while the withdrawal symptoms are at their worst. It's a heck of a lot easier to not buy a pack of smokes today than it is to "QUIT SMOKING", but you end up getting the same results.
4. There will be withdrawal symptoms. Consult the appropriate ehow article or do what I did: remove yourself from social events for several days or weeks following your first 'day off'. Be a hermit, your friends will understand. You'll be able to tell when your irrational anger and sketchiness subside. Everything past that point is a combat against physical habits and muscle memory.