I’m still a smoker, but i do want to quit. there are 3 things that i see have not worked for me:
1. i’ve said many times to people okay here we go i’m quitting today. i felt more pressured to quit like if it was set on stone that december 31st of whatever year i had my last cigarette. so don’t set a date, but do it on ur own undetermined terms.
2. when i took my advice from number 1, i wouldn’t tell people i was quitting so my parents and siblings would still talk about how i smoked and make sarcastic jokes so i got pissed and went back. my advice is don’t be around non smokers, they don’t understand.
3 As a smoker we know smoking is bad for us yet we have not quit so i always get pissed when people say to me u should stop cause it is bad. i’m not gonna stop because someone else tells me to. i want to stop on my own term. my advice is surround urself with people who don’t give a fuck about ur habit.
i guess what i’m saying is that it depends on the circumstances of ur surrounding (which u don’t control that much), combined with a way that does not put extra pressure on you. do it on ur own terms not on the way other people tell you to.
i have yet to do it, so my advice is not that valuable, but i do think that everyone is different and has their own way of quitting, there is no single answer. just look at urself and learn from the times you failed, try and see what works and does not.