15 hours without nicotine (Edit: I'm pretty much a non-smoker now :p)

Nicotine patch, stop being a little female dog and take it like a man who dropped the soap?

Seriously? Herb, everyday.

Don't buy cigs anymore, it'll be a good start ;-)

looking at this would depress me enough to quit

Some colleagues of mine claim that hypnosis helped them to quit.

you weren't born with a cigar in your mouth, you can break the chain easily, provided will is primary.

Hang around people with colds/the flu. :p

That's how I quit in the end. Caught something, felt awful, didn't want to smoke and before I knew it almost a day had passed without one. Decided then I might as well use the opportunity to try to give up and when I started to feel well again I was already a few days in so the very worst of the cravings had gone.

Not very practical I know, but it worked for me. Good luck with it.

Depends really, but i used to smoke around 25 a day, ever since i started vaping i'm tobacco free.

PS. You can vape liquids with or without nicotine, even if you do vape liquid with nicotine, you can do it gradually until you have no need for nicotine.

I gave up smoking last year by using e-cigarettes. They do contain nicotine, but you can get varying strengths and even without on some brands. I stopped smoking real cigarettes straight away as the e-cig still gives you nicotine but more importantly it gives your hands something to do when you get the impulse to reach for a cigarette. That part was the most difficult when I tried to give up by other means, patches, cold turkey etc.

After a while you can move to non-nicotine e-cigs or just stop using them. I went for a vape kit (the Ego series but others are available) which is more advanced than a e-cig, you get a very wide variety of flavours which do taste great! I have a few non-smoking friends on the nicotine free ones :)

Hope that helps, and good luck with giving up smoking. People think it is easy but it is not.

I smoked for 12 years. Honestly, at the end I hated it with a passion and quit cold turkey. It has been 4 years now that I haven't smoked and I feel ten-fold better. Quitting smoking is the best decision you can make. I took up long distance running when I quit. I tried acupuncture, the patch, nicotine gum, hypnotism (this was a sham fucking rip off, don't ever do it), and other stupid things over the years. You have to want it, mean it, and commit to it. I still get pangs where I will want a cigarette every now and again, but they are over fast. The first few months are the hardest. I didn't go out with friends during those times as most of them smoked during this time as well.

Hope something in there helps. Smoking is the worst.

I quit smoking 5 months ago, from 20 cigs a day to 0 in one day and i feel damn good. The first week is the worst, but after that you'll feel much better and be more motivated to not smoke again.

The best way to quit is to take advantage of another big change of your life: move out, start exercising, meet new people or begin with a new hobby. The important part is to replace those cigarette moments with something else to keep you distracted.
Patches and chewing gums are rather useless.

I am using e-cigs to curb the cravings, it really isn't quitting but you can do like one puff to curb the need to smoke a full cig.

When I stopped smoking I did it under one week of my vacation out on the country, cold turkey and gaming. Worked good for me.

I've been smoking for 12 years now, and found out about e-cigs a few months ago, decided to try it out and it actually helped me quit smoking. I quit for a month, went on vacation and started smoking again. But I still use my e-cig occasionally just to not smoke for a week or 2. But I usually end up buying a pack again. But I do recommend trying an e-cig, you could just start with one of those that you can use for a week and then throw away, just to try it.

e-cig - no buying normal ones, getting weaker nicotine dosages each month - dont use e-cig all the time - try to use it as a normal cig (even leave the house to "light" it)

Just put on machine that will cut your balls if you smoke... problem solved.. you will never smoke again!

Get the common cold, kills everything you like about smoking.
Then get yourself to never buy another pack.

Try the e-cig.
This is my own experience: :
I started using this shit since 1 month, I was at 20-25 cigarettes before, now I'm at 6-7 cigarettes + e-cig.
It's not better for health, but not worse. I still smoke cigarettes, but as I smoke four times less, I spend three times less money than before, this is a good start I think, now I definitely need to stop the cigarette, in some time I hope I can do that.

go in a time machine and stop yourself from smoking in the first place

I still havent smoke since last month.

Learn to say no.

It's real easy to quit. Really. The hard part is to NEVER smoke again.
Allen Car. look it up. The guy has a really good book explaining how to quit. It's not the usual shit like, care about you health or save the money for a car. It explains you gain NOTHING from smoking.

Treat yourself at certain milestones with the money you're saving. Buy yourself a new game or a DVD after the first two weeks - or wait even longer and work towards something bigger. I put my savings towards a new car - It was actually scary to see how fast the money accrued!

Best of luck pal - it's very difficult but you'll get there.

The other option is to accept smoking. However then there's still the conflict in the head. Personally I haven't smoked until I started earlier this year. I've smoked a few months and 6-7 packs total. Approximately one cigarette per day. I feel like I can quit any time, smoking for me is like candy or masturbation, a way to get some brief enjoyment.