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All it took for me was focus. I wanted to live to see my grandkids, and to see these two angels grown. One day I ran out and that was the day I quit. I never bught anymore, and never will again. I never said it was easy, I had to keep reminding myself why I was doing it, and a few times I almost regressed for sure, but i had to stay focused. And yes 1 1/2 later or so its been well worth it.

That take this crap I knew was not gonna work, I did not want to be de[pendant on anything that could backfire. (I'm out of patches, etc.... ) So for me it was cold turkey as so many before the drug replacements. By the way I saw no way to replace nicotene with nicotene, I figured whu not just quit. And it was not because of cost, the V/A would have covered the costs. It was a preference for me.

The End. 

Again, good luck. If you need to chat, you know where to find me bro. Thats what I'm here for, and cocknuk went through it too about the same time. But not togather, just silly timing really.

If it helps, keep a soggy nasty ashtray aroyund to sniff once in a while, thats what your breathe is like.  I do not miss it anymore.

It took about a year to finally quit the urges for good.

 I have to admit I'm bad w/ it, I smoke the same cigarette as many as four to five times, just keep re-lighting it. I quit before for a year. Two separate times. A couple months ago ,I quit for about thirty days.  I chew the gum when I go places I can't smoke.

 Just wondered if any one has used chantix. It blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain. 

The hardest part for me was when I was drinking. Smoking and drinking just went hand in hand ..... no pun intended. 

I was a pack-pack and a half a day smoker and more than that when I was at a party. A little over 15 years like that and then I caught a bad cold and couldn't even think about cigarettes without coughing. I smoked my last one on January 8, 1999 and I don't miss them. I know the exact date because it was the day after my birthday. Happy birthday to me!! 

Being sick will help (in a weird way) because you probably can't smoke right now anyway. So get rid of what you have now and don't buy anymore. Besides, with cigarette prices these days, you can only bum from your friends for so long. 

mudmanc4 ;I have always been told by people that actually quit & stayed quit that cold turkey was the way they did it.

On the AC .Try running yours most of the time for a couple of days& nights to see if you clear up like at the doctors office.Then you will know if it is the cold temp or something else.
If you stay the same at home with the air on & you still are having problems then it would have to be something else.Like the doctors office may have a HEPA air filter &  many of those also Ionize the air.So you could ask your doctor if his office uses something like that.
The reason I say that is the fresh air you enjoy may contain alergins you are alergic to .
All refrigerterated air has filters of some kind.or is supposed to.
Also the air conditioning system can contain it's own "dirt" they have steam out services for the ducts .It's possible you need to have that done.
Even with filters the Fan(squirel  cage on most) may have a lot more dirt on it that you think.I just helped a friend change the motor in his & you wouldn't believe how dirty the fan was.I don't think anything but removing it & brushing & blowing it with an air hose on a good air compresser would have cleaned it .Then soap & hot water,
So just a couple of ideas there.

 mudmanc4 ; Here I can use an evaporative AC most days.So I just have a couple of refrigerated window units that I use when necessary.
The home air filter I use is simpler.(Not the one for the central heater).It a Sunbeam the HEPA filter in it looks like a large automotive one;It has a foam rubber carbon impregnated filter wrapped around it.It say it has an Ionizer when I pusth the button to run the Ionizer also it makes the air smell like rain so I guess it does something.I vac the filter every couple of weeks & it always has a visible layer of dust & some pet hair on it. So it at least removes that.I've never had one with the UV light.
Interestingly enough the water place where I get my drinking water because our tap water is very salty.I happen to catch the service man & he gave me a tour .One of the things it does to the water in exposer it to UV light.Also 7 other filtering processes .It tastes a lot better that our tap water does even if it is the same water just filtered & not bad for 25 cents a gallon.