[5_minutes]

Stop on holidays. Take champix. An cut alcohol and coffee for a few days and that'all you have to do quit.

[mdekkers]

Take champix

That's terrible advice. Champix and Zyban produce "feelings of agitation, depressed mood, hostility, changes in behaviour or impulsive or disturbing thoughts, such as ideas of self-harm or of harming others". I had several doctors literally tell me "to stay the fuck away from that garbage"

[antoinevg]

Yet it's the only thing I've found that helped me permanently quit a 32 year smoking habit.

My family is deeply grateful for that "garbage".

[mruts]

You realize you could say the same thing about almost every other drug as well? Look up the side-effects of SSRIs, SNRIs, caffeine, really anything at all.