Nicwit, you've gone six days so far. That's a good investment. Within my considerable experience with smoking—numerous attempts to quite—the third day is the hardest. If you can get past that, which you have already done, it should begin to ease off. I've heard that it takes about twenty-one days for nicotine (and heroin, and other addictive substances) to clear out of your body, so in fifteen days you should be physiologically free of it. Although there may be moments when you don't feel like it, you have actually passed the worst. So hang in there. It's a real bitch, but, believe me, it really is worth what you're going through right now to be free of it.

Sometime back, on a similar thread, I posted my experience with quitting. For what it's worth, if you'd like to read it, here it is: BLICKY.

As I describe, I tried a number of times to quit "cold turkey" and didn't make it and I wound up almost inadvertently tapering off. But just because I didn't make it "cold turkey" doesn't mean that you can't. Lots of people have.

In the months and years to come, you're going to be real happy you've made this choice. Rather proud of yourself, in fact. Congratulations!

Don Firth