I quit successfully a couple years ago using a nicotine patch, which helped me separate my mental and physical addictions to make them more manageable. But friends say it didn't work for them. What methods has everyone found that really work?
BTW, I know it's a little weird to post a smoking thread under "drug and alcohol abuse," but I couldn't find a better fit.

The gum isn't much better if you never quit it. I know of someone from my hometown who chewed it for 20 years or so. Tragically, she got mouth cancer and died from it when she was in her late 50s or early 60s.

I quit 4 years ago when the doctor pulled my ribcage open and gave me 5 coronary bypasses. then he put me back together and said, 'You smoke, You Die.' ...worked like a champ.

I was about a pack a day...but I quit cold turkey when I found out the girl I liked hated smokers. Good thing as we ended up getting married.

I say it is all just a mental thing...sure it is "tough" as you are used to it...but I never had withdrawals...it just made drinking and partying so much different.

At least my bank account improved.

Cold turkey. My health caught up to me with it, and it was an ulcer, but I felt so miserable I didn't notice any side effects. What luck! That was 8-1/2 years ago.

But do it. Smoking is cool and fun and all but it will eventually catch up with you.