No. 1 rule in which I believe, is that cigarette/nicotine addiction is mainly psychological, NOT physical. There is definitely physical withdrawal symptoms. But trust me those are not the main problem. SO many people managed to stop smoking for a week or two or three and then relapsed many times. That wasn't the physical addiction, since that doesn't last long at all (few days actually). The main problem is always in our heads. Whenever we see somebody smoking at club, pub, bus station or just anywhere, it's a subconscious impulse to smoke. No way. You have to realize when that happens and ignore it. You need to be almost arrogant - in your head, don't speak it out loud: say in your head "I'm better than them. They're all losers. I'm not slave of cigs."
You need to make a clear decision in your head: I'll never smoke again in my life. If there is even the smallest doubt about that, for example "I could make an exception when I graduate" or "I could make an exception when I reach [whatever important goal]", you probably won't make it. The idea of never smoking again must be completely acceptable to you.
No. 2, this can be very hard too but definitely important. Try to avoid alcohol and any other drugs that cause you to like cigarettes more than sober, for at least one month, preferably two. If you're generally moderate to heavy drug user, this will be really hard because from my experience almost all hard drugs made me want to smoke more. But alcohol is the worst of all. You really want to avoid that for some time.
No. 3, all the things like e-cigarettes, nicotine plasters etc. can't help you with the psychic addiction. They mostly combat the physical addiction only. So if you eat lots of nicotine in any other form than smoking, it may make quitting easy for few weeks but it won't help you in the long run. If you still imagine yourself holding a real cig and like that idea, you can as well return to real cigs right now.
Because the nicotine itself is just part of the problem. People become addicted to the route of administration itself. There are lots of people who are addicted to snorting or IVing and smoking, and not so much the drug itself. Smoking delivers the drug into blood extremely quickly, in fact it's more addictive route than snorting. Society tends to consider snorting to be worse than smoking but in fact smoking is generally closer to IVing than snorting, it takes few minutes at most to reach full effect.
Sounds a bit depressing I know, but I think that's how it works. If you only try to defeat it physically but still like the general idea of smoking, there is high chance you'll relapse, even after many months.
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