A few more counterintuitive suggestions:
* Once you start not smoking, carry a pack of cigarettes and fire with you at all times. It will give you a comfortable feeling of knowing that you can start to smoke any time again if you want to, but you just don't want to, and you won't.
* Don't count the number of days/hours/month of non-smoking. It will make you feel like you've been separated from something for X number of days and there are only Y number of days left till you go back. Just start not smoking, and that's that. No need to count days.
* Make a schedule of things to do for the first few weeks. Make your life REALLY busy. To the point where you have no time to eat, sleep or do anything else. This is a good time to finish all those tasks around the house that had to be done years ago. Clean the yard, fix the car, through away junk from the garage, watch a movie (Borat), go to museum, go to an art gallery, go to a theater, go shopping, play with kids, the list is endless.
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