I smoked during a lot of time, for 12-15 years, and it was a big adiction for me. I always thought it would be so hard to stop smoking, so I never tried to do it but... some day I get pregnant and I thought that if it wasn't good for the baby, I didn't have to do it. And I stop doing it. I don't know if it was because that child was so important for me, or because I really wanted to do it, but it was so easy, so much easier than I thought before.

How can I stop something I've never even started?

Everything you enjoy is dificult to quit or stop. Most smokers enjoy smoking and see no reason why to stop.

Yes this is difficult as to quit any addiction.  I managed without the gum or the patch which came out later, but I had incentive which helped.  I got a new car I didn't want to smoke in and was around a lot of people that didn't smoke...very helpful...that was almost 18 years ago and I am sooooooooo glad that TN passed the no smoking law so I can go eat and hang out with my friends without being around the second hand smoke...ex smokers are much worse than non smokers!

Loved smoking. Loved to drink and smoke, loved to toke and smoke, loved to snort and smoke, loved to smoke while having sex...just kidding...after sex,  loved a smoke after dinner. That was then...for the last 4 yrs, I've been a boring smuck.

I wouldn't know from experience, 'cause I never picked up smoking, but I have seen my mother and grandmother try to quit. It wasn't pretty...

My dad quit "cold turkey" about 4 years ago. It wasn't easy but he did it!

Dunno, never started...

Honestly how I came to quit was through caculating how much I spent in nine years on cigarettes,it amounted almost to $40,000 AUD which by a virtual sense I was smoking a Ford GT-P.So I quit took up my sneakers and started running again to my suprise I lost the craving after a day.

Based only on observations of others. But most of them have tried cold turkey rather than trying medical aids such as gums and patches.

Sure it's difficult to do but it's all in your mind. I think that show called "Cold Turkey" illustrates that it's not as hard as people make it out to be and that saying that "it's as hard as Heroin to quit" is an excuse. I quit smoking without too many problems as long as I stayed busy or relaxed. I quit opiates and thought I was gonna die literally. The best way to quit smoking is cold turkey. It also helps to be in an environment thats calm so you may have to take a week off from work which helped me as opposed to a month off from the opiate withdrawal. Nicotine, the drug that smokers crave, does something chemically to trick our bodies into releasing the fat and sugar reserves quickly into our bloodstream and directly into the brain. It's natures evil trick so when you want a ciggarette it's not only the nicotine your body craves but also the brain burst of dopamine it receives. Be strong it's not that bad.

As I posted earlier, I have recently quit smoking for a little over two and a half months. The cravings were hell the first two to three weeks and I was not someone you wanted to be around. Thankfully I was a light smoker and I don't really crave them anymore and am glad that I don't have to cough so much and that my clothes actually smell like the fabric softner. The easiest way to quit smoking, however, is to never have started at all.

i have been smoking 25 years and i have thought about quitting and as soon as i think about it i have to light up a cigarette

Too difficult to stop I'll never ever start.

Don't do it and never did, but I have seen several close friends try to kick it and NONE of them have!

I've heard an expression regarding the breaking of habits. That is that a bad habit can be broken within 21 days. This is true with the exception being chemical addictions. Breaking a habit is fairly easy, as long as you have the will power. But breaking a chemical addiction such as smoking is a lot harder because it is not only the psychological battle, you are also fighting the psyiology of your body. Because your body has adapted to those particular chemicals and it thinks it needs them. But I also believe it is possible and having strong will power to break this habit (smoking) will bring you 50% closer to your goal!

Not being a smoker, this has to be the most difficult thing to accomplish because so many people I have known, over the years, have tried, numerous times without success. Changing what you do habitually is almost as difficult as changing who you are, and for most of us, it's next to impossible. When someone does this, it's really to his/her credit because so many try and fail. There is no question that there is a chemical addiction going on here.