Mister_Shortcut invite YOU to quit smoking here at what may be the world's healthiest website, certainly among the largest.
Deep appreciation from the Healthier Life Guidebook to NCI and NIH for creating this program

Preparing Yourself for Quitting

• With your mind able to move only towards one thought, you can make the thought be one of clean lungs.
  
  
• List all reasons you want to quit. Every night before going to bed, repeat one of those reasons 10 times.
  
  
• Even as NIH and CDC are responsible for the intelligent formation of this program, the Healthier Life Guidebook inserts this notation that having a big enough WHY inevitably, or at least characteristically, leads us to finding the HOW. The NIH-CDC "Prepare To Quit Smoking" protocol includes the powerfully useful suggestion to create a list, IDENTIFY your own personal list, of personal reasons in addition to your health and obligations to others. For example, think of all the time you waste taking cigarette breaks, rushing out to buy a pack, hunting for a light, etc.
  
  
• Begin to condition yourself physically: Start a modest exercise program; drink more fluids; get plenty of rest; and avoid fatigue.
  
  
• Set a target date for quitting–perhaps a special day such as your birthday, your anniversary, or the Great American Smokeout. If you smoke heavily at work, quit during your vacation so that you're already committed to quitting when you return. Make the date sacred, and don't let anything change it. This will make it easy for you to keep track of the day you became a nonsmoker and to celebrate that date every year.

Knowing What to Expect

• Have realistic expectations–quitting isn't easy, but it's not impossible either. More than 3 million Americans quit every year.
  
  
• Understand that withdrawal symptoms are temporary. They usually last only 1-2 weeks.
  
  
• Since you can see that the first days of quitting do carry urges, replace the urges with deep breathing, or ten seconds of stretching, or searching for a one-line joke. Replacing the urge is not an innovation of the Best Shortcuts Roadway. It is a time-honored trick and shortcut to replacing one habit with another, preferably a habit that brings pleasure or benefit.. Be aware that this will be your hardest time, and use all your personal resources–willpower, family, friends, and the tips in this booklet–to get you through this critical period successfully.
  
  
• Know that most other relapses occur in the first week after quitting, when situational triggers, such as a particularly stressful event, occur unexpectedly. These are the times when people reach for cigarettes automatically, because they associate smoking with relaxing. This is the kind of situation that's hard to prepare yourself for until it happens, so it's especially important to recognize it if it does happen. Remember that smoking is a habit, but a habit you can break. NOTE from the Healthier Life Guidebook: Nature abhors a vaccuum. Replacing one habit with another is your high-powered shortcuts here in preparing to quit smoking forever. What else do you love to do?
  
  
• Realize that most successful ex-smokers quit for good only after several attempts. You may be one of those who can quit on your first try. But if you're not, don't give up. Try again. A core part and function of the Best Shortcuts Roadway is the value of repetition, and no less so with the Healthier Life Guidebook, regarding health issues.

- Involving Someone Else

• Bet a friend you can quit on your target date. Put your cigarette money aside for every day, and forfeit it if you smoke. (But if you do smoke, don't give up. Simply strengthen your resolve and try again.)
  
  
• Ask your friend or spouse to quit with you.
  
  
• Tell your family and friends that you're quitting and when. They can be an important source of support both before and after you quit.