Ok, I decided I had had enough of smoking last week. I've been wanting to quit for ages and have failed most times because of NRT. It always just kept me hooked so I would eventually end up back on cigarettes.
The only successful time I quite before was for three years and I just stopped. Admitted I moved to a different city at the same time which meant that all the old reminders of smoking were gone and it was easy.(I started again when I moved back to my home town!)
I'm not sure how I did it this time but last wednesday I decided to write down how many I have a day in my daily schedule(I knew that most of the time I smoked about 15 a day and felt quite guilty about it) - I got as far as 6 on wednesday and on thursday by 7.30am I had had 3 when I decided that I smoked too much and I would wait until lunch for my next one.

I still haven't had my lunchtime cigarette and I feel really good. Five days and I already have so much energy and I don't feel the urge for one. I have been out with my wife,who is a smoker, to the pub and had a beer - still nothing. It was much easier than I ever remember every time I did it before.

There is, of course only one down side and that is now I am one of those terrible evangelical ex smokers(well maybe 5 days is a little early to say but I think I'm going to be alright) Many of my friends smoke and I'm sure that it will really irritate them, not to mention my wife!

Having said that , I always blamed my wife that she made it hard for me to quit by refusing to quit together and always smoking around me when I was trying not to. Now I have stopped I noticed that she is smoking less - only a couple a day, so maybe it will have a good influence on her too!