well i stopped just by saying "i won't smoke" anymore. of course i'm craveing and that, but i repeat sometimes to self, "who is in control of your body".. and step by step, day by day passes and now i don't smoke anymore.

anyhow, cigaretes today are really bad, and someone here wrote before of natural tobaco which i preffer much more than cigaretes, couse it really "does the job".. even now i sometimes roll me self a tobaco and smoke it. but i don't smoke every day. just sometimes when i feel to it...

Uh, so you're saying if you just stop smoking you'll die? If you stop drinking water for a week you'd probably die or at the very least become too weak to stand. Are you trying to tell us the same would happen if you stopped smoking? Well, I don't know what you're smoking, but that doesn't happen with me. Occasionally I'll stop smoking completely for a month or so just to let my lungs recover and to detoxify. I have absolutely no withdrawal symptoms. None. Neither mental nor physical. Nor did I when I quite smoking the Camels. So I really don't get where you're coming from with that "body craves a cigarette the same way it craves water" crap... Perhaps you could elaborate...

Wow, that has to be one of the dumbest things i have heard. First off, there is something in Cigarettes that make you get addicted to them.(Nicotine) And it makes it really hard to quite cause your body craves it. So it is a lot easier said than done. But if i were you i would try this:
1. Try to limit yourself on how many you have a day. Moderation i think somebody said before. Try to have the smallest amount possible everyday.
2. Use the patches and gum, that will help in the moderation.
3. Keep decreasing the amount of cigarettes that you smoke.
4. Then, after a whiles work of smoking less and less try to quit. You body will be used to smoking less so i would think that it would be easier to quit. Like most people would just be like I'm going to quit, but they never tried to smoke less first. To me that means that it would be harder for them to quit because there body is going to crave it more. So, then at this stage actually try to quit completely.

I do not know if this will work. I have never smoked and therefore i have not needed to try to quit. But i believe that this would be the easiest way to quit just from common sense. I hope this works out for you, and you can stop smoking.

Once again i hope this helps you.

I never said that you (generalization) would DIE if you suddenly quit smoking.

My comparison was meant to illustrate the fact that addiction makes the body NEED whatever it is that it is addicted to. (It's not QUITE the same as needing water - we're all born with a need to drink, after all, whereas we are not born with an innate need to smoke - but a tobacco addict has a similar dependency on both tobacco and water.)

As a smoker, my body and my brain have been wired, over the course of the last 11-12 years that I've smoked, to need tobacco. I'm not going to die if I stop smoking, but my body will definitely revolt.

Besides which: my comment was somewhat absurd because it was a response to an obtuse observation.

Try herbal cigarrettes--they are nothing but tobacco (like the Native Americans smoked) and they are not dangerous because they don't have any nicottine, or rat poisen, or tar, or whatever they shove in those cigarrettes these days...

Try some form of deep breathing. This helps destress the body and remove toxins from the airways.

The only way to truly stop an addiction is to stop it at an instinctual level. The people who have long-term success in avoiding cigarrettes are the ones you just had a cigarette in hand one day, and BEFORE THEY EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT, they put it down, and never picked one up again.

It was their instinct, and their spiritual discipline that gave them the ability not to smoke again.

Actually, the tobacco inserted into today's cigarrettes in the USA are genetically engineered to increase their addictiveness, IIRC. In other countries it seems to be different. Worse or better, my friend cannot tell.

Considering i have never smoked it's hard for me to put myself in the position of someone who has, however what i do know is that it's never as simple as smoking your last whenever you want. A relative of mine died from lung cancer due to smoking which was something very common indeed.

I don't see the point in smoking, however i accept people who do as it's their choice (unless was caused by peer pressure from other people which is the factor in many cases).

It's like alcoholism or drug taking. Going cold turkey is one of the most difficult things your body can handle both mentally and physicaly.

I'm sorry, but I need to correct you before too many people get confused. Herbal cigarettes are, as the name implies, herbal. They do not contain any tobacco. Some of them contain a mix of tobacco and herbs, but since nicotine comes from tobacco naturally, it follows that these cigarettes also contain that very addictive substance. Herbal cigarettes, in my opinion, are even more disgusting then nasty mainstream American cigarettes, but if you can tolerate them, then that's one way, I suppose, you can ween yourself off the tobacco ones while still keeping the "habit". Note, though, that smoke being inhaled into the lungs still is damaging to the lungs no matter what you smoke.