IT IS A LIE My advice to all smokers would be: It is all a lie. Make the decision to stop - and really mean it - and then after you have given up, EXPECT to feel this craving to smoke. But don't worry about the craving to smoke. Don't believe it is bad and don't try to suppress it.  As you told us, simply stand back from it - and instead of giving in to it and smoking - just observe it - and for the first time REALLY EXPERIENCE what it feels like.  Not what you are conditioned to believe it SHOULD feel like - but what it really feels like. Yes, you will realize that it is no big deal; nothing at all to worry about. And when you get that realization yourself, which you will, then you will know that is all you have to do to be a happy non-smoker."   Please do not believe this is difficult to do just because it is new to you.  It is really quite easy. But don't let its simplicity fool you.  Let me repeat:  We all are terrified of certain feelings, especially the feeling we get when we can't smoke. We believe it is 'bad' and impossible to cope with it - so if we experience it, we tend, automatically, to mentally fight it; to resist it; to push it away; to want it to go away..    It has never occurred to us to welcome it. To just let it be.....until it fades away of its own accord    It seems the most natural thing in the world to do the exact opposite and mentally fight it.  We all do it. But this OLD WAY method does not work.