#1 Cold Turkey.
Just quit. This is the most simple method. In fact it's so simple it's hard to even call it a method. The pros? It's pretty cheap (free.) The cons? If it was this easy you would have already quit smoking by now. The first few weeks will be extremely difficult to get through, but if you can make it through that period you should have good success.
It's important to remember to never give in to the idea that you've been "good" so you "deserve" a cigarette. This sort of thinking will quickly land you back where you started. You also may want to stay away from drinking during the first month you have quit because when you get a little tipsy (or DRUNK) you are very likely to crave a cigarette and unlikely to have the judgment or self control to not smoke one.
With this method (and with all other methods listed below) it's also very important NOT to keep "emergency" cigarettes stashed away somewhere. You are doomed to failure if you cannot bring yourself to throw away all of your cigarettes.
#2 Hypnosis.The hypnosis method for quitting smoking is gaining in popularity due it's effectiveness and the fact that it is quite inexpensive (if you go the self hypnosis route anyway.) You can
download an audio hypnosis mp3 to quit smoking online. This method (along with nicotine patches/gum) is probably the most effective and easiest.
#3 Progress Quitting. This is where you try cutting down your cigarette intake in increments. You can try one less cigarette per day or one less cigarette per week if you want to take it really slow. This method can be difficult for multiple reasons. One of which is that you will have to start keeping track of the amount of cigarettes you are smoking. I don't particularly recommend this method.
#4 Nicotine Patches.Nicotine patches have been shown to be quite effective. One problem you may run into with nicotine patches is that they do nothing for your desire to have a cigarette in your mouth (the oral fixation) and they also may not really work as far as your social desire to smoke (with friends who smoke.) They are also quite expensive.
#5 Nicotine Gum.This takes care of the oral fixation problem. If you like chewing gum this may be a better choice than the patches for you.
#6 Eat.Instead of smoking all the time,
eat all the time! This method would be like method #1 where you quit cold turkey except that with this method you are replacing your smoking habit with a eating habit. Of course the big drawback here is that you may get very very fat.
Of all of these methods we most recommend Hypnosis.It's combination of effectiveness and inexpensiveness makes it the easy selection for best method.
