I was lucky at that point. I met a lovely man who didn’t smoke (we’ve been married 10 years now) and he took me camping around the coast of Sardinia for 2 weeks. I left the cigarettes in the car at the airport and never used them again (when I had an occasional pang, I turned my full attentions onto my new fella).

In retrospect the trick for me was motivation and the opportunuty to get away from that same old sofa, in front of the same old telly, with the same old cup of coffee in my hand and the same old smoking ex, all the things that made me crave a cigarette.

Good luck!

Another brilliant example of motivation & opportunity is my 64-year-old mother-in-law. She knew I didn’t want smokers around her new granddaughter and she quit cold turkey when she came to stay with us for a few weeks after the baby was born. She had smoked 40-a-day for 40 years. She’s been off them a year now!

If that isn’t enough for you though, I have had several friends who have quit successfully with Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking. The idea is that you simply read this book and you have quit by the time you finish it. I know it sounds mad, but it really did work for 3 of my friends.