Congrats to the quitters!
This year marked my '20th' year smoking and that pretty much scared the living shit outta me so I quit on January 24....so almost 7 weeks now.
Like a few others said, I quit cold turkey and can't believe how much easier it was than I thought. I've done the patches, the gum etc but cold turkey by FAR was the easiest oddly enough....
the first two weeks were tough and I changed pretty much everything about my daily life including staying off my computer unless I had to...and then I just moved my puter away from my desk and into bed, or the couch or wherever...break the cycle type thing....no coffee, no booze either for the first 2 weeks...slowly I added these things back and I'm fine now....still haven't been in a bar with smokers and dont' think I'm ready to do that just yet.....
One thing that helped me was smoking 'phantom' smokes....you feel like an idiot, probably look like an idiot...but, it works. :P Breath in exactly the way you would if you were smoking....take deep breathes....it really does help.
If you're thinking of quitting....just do it....cold turkey....get through the first 2 weeks in whatever way you can....it DOES get easier after that
