There isn't really an easy way. You're doing it right if you've gone a month already. Distraction is the key, when you get the craving do ANYTHING except have a smoke. Your straw trick is a good idea if it takes your mind off it. After a month the craving will start to diminish and you'll start experiencing the benefits, e.g. food will taste and smell better. One thing that encouraged me to keep going was that I could smell it on peoples clothes - YUK! Made me realise I used to smell like that. One day soon you'll realise that you haven't thought about a cig all day, then you'll know you've cracked it and can happily join the rest of us smug non-smokers. I was captain of the smoking team at school when I was 13, smoked all my life until I gave up at age 63. I'm now 81.