"Prepare yourself
Begin by changing your attitude. Try to be positive and stop thinking this is hard to achieve. Instead, think of the benefits of giving up. Admit to yourself that your body is going to experience physical cravings and withdrawals for 1-2 weeks. Be aware of the fact that most relapses occur during the first week after quitting , when nicotine cravings are still too strong. Thus, use the social support of your family and friends, they will help you pass through the battle and you won’t feel alone. Some useful tips here:
- Make smoking unpleasant by switching to an unpleasant tasting brand, low in nicotine for a couple of weeks before the “last cigarette” day and try to change your smoking behavior. Reduce the number of cigarettes and don’t inhale them more deeply than your old brand and don’t smoke more of them. The main goal here is to get used to a lower level of nicotine.
- Decrease the number of cigarettes step by step. Decide how many cigarettes you will smoke during the day and light up the first one an hour later than usual . Start by delaying each subsequent cigarette by 20 minutes.
- Start changing your habitual smoking hours. For example, if you smoke after lunch or dinner, replace it with a chewing gum and light up a cigarette in the afternoon.
- Stop buying cigarette value packs. Wait until one pack is empty.
- Practice going out without cigarettes when you usually have them and smoke in circumstances, which you don’t find pleasurable. If you like smoking with friends, or colleagues, start smoking alone, for example." http://www.anotherway.org/2011/08/kick-smoking-out-of-your-life/