I think the first thing to recognize is that you are an addict, chemically addicted to nicotine and behaviorally addicted to the smoking routine. The second thing to understand is that the desire for a cigarette never, never goes away. Over time, the desire will fade but it never completely goes away. After about a month of no cigarettes nicotine will be flushed out of your body and your cravings will subside. That is when you must concentrate on the behavioral addiction; a cigarette with your first coffee, smoke break in the morning, etc. Its all the patterns you have built up in your daily life that include cigarettes. If you can change your daily habits that included cigarettes it will go a long way towards helping you completly quit. After I quit smoking I found I was drinking more coffee, sort of substituting one drug, cafine, for another, nicotine. Over the years I’ve been ablt to drink less coffee and having gone back to a smoke, tis been 35 years. Anyway, I know you can do it because I did it.
I know I can, and now it’s more important to me than ever.