This is just my opinion of course but it is based on my experience and therefore it has at least some validity to it.

The best way to quit smoking cigarettes is cold turkey. Now everyone who hears that will probably have some reaction to it, and most people will not like the idea much. They think that cold turkey quitting is for the birds, that it is terribly uncomfortable, and that it has a low rate of success.

Well, I am here to let you know that I tried several different methods for quitting smoking, and for me, the best way to quit smoking was cold turkey. In fact, it was the only thing that actually worked for me.

You see, the other things I tried, such as the patch and the gum and the medications and so on, they were all just playing games. I did not really want to quit smoking at the time, what I wanted was for something to make me want to quit smoking. Does that make sense? I was looking for a magic cure, and it does not really exist. If you want to quit smoking then you have to want to quit smoking in the first place. The drive has to come from deep within. You have to be sick of smoking and really want to change your life for the better. If you do not have this inner drive, this motivation, this deep level of desire, then all of the tricks and gimmicks in the world are not going to help you.

I would go so far as to say that all of the people who have successfully quit smoking with the patch or the gum or the medications, that they would have succeeded even if they had quit cold turkey. The props and the gimmicks are not what led to their success.

And so it is the same with any addiction…..just my 2 cents of course!