Quitting smoking is like quitting any addiction. If you don't want to, you won't succeed. In the ~42 years I smoked, I never tried to quit, because I never wanted to quit. When I decided I wanted to, I used every cheat possible: medication, pacifiers (first the Nicotrol inhalers, then wood-tipped cigars to chew), and others.
The physical addiction is supposed to be gone after a week or so. The psychological is really the hardest. I knew that the hand-to-mouth behavior was ingrained in me, so I got the Nicotrol inhalers to satisfy the need to have something to hold and to have in my mouth. They look goofy, though, so I switched to the thin, wood-tipped cigars. I cut them in half, so they're just stubs, and chew the wood tips. It still looks goofy, but it's been two years and nine months since I quit a five pack a day habit.
I'll never go back. There's just no percentage in it. But photographs would never have deterred me from smoking.
