Well it's inspired discussion, which is good. I quit smoking on the 1st Jan this year. My advice is to just go cold turkey, it is hell for a few weeks but then that's it. I get frustrated watching friends and colleagues on nicotine replacement therapy suffering constant re-addiction and withdrawal every day (one is still on lozenges a year later). You will have to go through complete withdrawal eventually, unless you want to stay on patches or whatever the rest of your life. Why not just go cold turkey in the first place and suffer for a few weeks and it's over. Don't drag it out for months. Cutting down is fine, but in the end you have to just stop. Sorry for lecture but that's how it is, and the people selling patches and gum are almost as bad as the tobacco companies, as they are keeping you addicted. The end! :D P.S, I'm not some kind of iron-willed freak either, I'm the most mentally weak person there is. If I can do it, you definitely can!