Haven't read the rest of this thread but I gave up the ciggies 5 years ago with Allan Carr's "Easy Way to Give Up Smoking" book(published by Penguin). It worked for me and I recommended to 6 buddies and 5 of them are still off them.
No hocus pocus, no trickery it works. The author assumes you know they are killing you and costing you a fortune. Read it in 2 or 3 nights. Smoke while you read it - Mr Carr recommends this! Uses logic and sense to explain how to get off them.
I think the book cost me a fiver (5 years ago) and has saved me about 5 grand and probably a lung.
Am I happy now - you f*ckin bet man
