This guide is to prepare yourself mentally in order to stop this suicidal act of yours - which is the ingestion of harmful substances (Have you ever wondered what is it you’re achieving by doing this?) - and if you follow it step by step, or atleast try do achieve everything mentioned below and have the willpower, you’ll certainly meet your ends. Take my word for it.

Prerequisite: You should NOT be like this passionate smoker who says:

"I always think of quitting cigarettes..... but for thinking, I need a cigarette."

First you’ve got to fix a specific date, one that means a lot to you. Mine was for my 18th birthday.

Next step is to tell everyone that knows you’re a smoker that you are quitting, specially those whom you love. This will make you feel guilt somehow if you don’t put it in practice.

Then choose your favorite brand of cigarettes and buy yourself a bundle of 10 or 20, suiting your usual quota. And finish most of it except the last one that you’ll smoke when reaching the time you were born or that at which the particular event happened to you. If you’ve got the habit to share cigarettes with friends or colleagues, don’t do it so that they feel awkward when you refuse them, and tell them the reason is that you’re quitting being a smoker and these’ll be your last cigarettes. You would do this to incite them to remember that you’ve quit and they’d think twice before asking or proposing you a cigarette.

As a believer offer some prayers, with firm faith, specific to helping you in that quest. (You better not skip this step, else I can’t guarantee your success)

If possible, try smoking that last cigarette where you lit up your first one. Reminescence time!

After having smoked your last cigarette, you’ll have to ‘put off’ your cigarette and do it on your palm - i did and it was exactly at 04:15am (GMT +04:00 - Arabian Standard Time) this 22th July 2007! ahemm Well if it’s on your birthday, choose to smoke your last cigarette and end it immediately at the corresponding time at which you were born. (the time’s supposed to be on your Birth Certificate for your info!!) Also, have someone confirm that you really did quit at such time and place - let’s say by phone, to someone you’ve never lied to or don’t need to.

The last step is to keep the last cigarette’s filter in some protected spots and keep it for the rest of your life so that you remember not to fall for it again. (I kept mine in a sterile universal container - the kind that they use in hospital, and labelled the cigarette’s brand, the date, the time and the location) - I’ll post some pics of it later.

And that’s it!
If this worked for you lemme know.
Please comment on this guide - tell me if i’m nuts or if it’s worth the try or wateva!

P.S: You could blog your experience to immortalize your experience!

This ‘piece of work’ is dedicated an amazing friend “L”, who’s been witness to this guide’s powers.