If you're interested in quitting smoking, check out Allen Carr. He provides seminars to quit smoking all over the world - money back guarantee - and his success rate is something like 90%. I don't work for Allen Carr and never have. I was, however, a heavy smoker for 11 years and am now a nonsmoker for 8 months. I've had maybe 4 or 5 urges to smoke during that time and they passed quickly. Prior to Allen Carr, I had tried the patch and smoking cessation. I haven't seen any media coverage about Allen Carr and it's a crying shame because it works. It's the only method I know of that makes quitting easy and works. I assume it doesn't get coverage because the pharma companies own the established methods of quitting. Quitting smoking is a personal choice - an individual choice for every addict, and not a choice to be made by friends and family who think that nagging a smoker is helpful and life saving. Nagging a smoker is not helpful, it makes a smoker feel worse and the way that a smoker copes with anxiety is by smoking more. But I'm not here to stand ona soapbox. If you're trying to quit, look up Allen Carr.

I'll second that! I quit (after smoking for 28 years) after reading Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking". It's not widely known in the U.S. yet, but it's very well known in Europe. It will give you a completely different perspective on smoking and quitting. You can stop and you don't have to suffer.

The seminars are pretty expensive but you can get his book "The easy way to stop smoking" at most bookstores (amazon, borders, etc.). I found a copy in my local library. It is a shame that his method does not get more publicity. Anyone who's struggling to quit should get it, it'll be the $15 best spent.