You have to have the right frame of mind set to stop smoking.

Preparation is necessary when you feel you are ready to stop smoking. Think this through, list on a piece of paper why you want to quit smoking. Put them in the places that you smoke. (Ex: on the table beside your favorite chair) Hang your lists on the refrigerator, cabinets or any where you will see this throughout the day and leave them there. This will help with the mind set of quitting.

The next thing you will want to do is write down every time you smoke a cigarette and what you were doing right before you had that cigarette.  Do this for at least three days.

Take these three days and chart them together and you will begin to see a pattern and what things you are doing to bring about that need to smoke.

Cut one cigarette out every hour. You should start to feel that you do not have the need for that cigarette that you cut out every hour. If you smoke when you first get out of bed and right after you eat cut it back to only a half a cigarette. Take the end of the cigarette about ½ inch and break it off. Then smoke it. Now chart this for about a week and continue to cut back one a week or whenever the urge for that particular moment to smoke no longer exists.