Many fail in the struggle with the cigarette due to a feeling of loss of pleasure, "I miss something in my mouth" (oral satisfaction). Many return to smoking in a condition of anxiety or a mental crisis.
Other quitters have failed in their efforts to quit smoking since they couldn't find a substitute. What's instead (relaxing occupation for the hands and so forth)?. It indeed seems that it's easier to cut all of a sudden, throw the cigarettes out the window and announce with trumpets: "I quit smoking!", but if you really do want to be released from smoking once and for all without freaking out, do it slowly and gradually.
First of all you have to get to know the enemy: WHAT IS SMOKING?
Smoking is an acquired habit.

Every smoker has their own set of characteristic habits. They would always smoke under certain circumstances.
Certain triggers would almost always cause a reaction that finds its expression in lighting a cigarette. Smoking, therefor, is usually linked to a certain action or rest: drinking coffee, driving, writing, social conversation, after dinner, rest etc.

Every smoker has their own smoking-patterns, which include a habitual repetitious series of movements. Such as: a right-hand-smoker would always smoke on the right hand, and if they would hold the cigarette in their left hand for one second, they would claim it doesn't taste the same…
In addition to the habit, the smoker develops mental dependence on smoking. When they're sad they smoke, when they feel lonely they need a cigarette, they smoke in order to relax and smoke in order to wake themselves, when bored - they smoke, in tomes of anxiety and tension they smoke a lot. In these situations, their feeling is they can't function without a smoke. i.e. They are psychologically dependent.
In addition, many smokers are simply addicted to nicotine.

Scientific research has proven that the nicotine in tobacco causes physical addiction. Quitting its use (quitting smoking) has quitting-effects similar to the effects of quitting other drugs.
The program offered here deals with the three components of smoking - the automatism, psychological dependence and physiological addiction.

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