Riley Method

On Jan 17 I celebrated one year off the fags, and not a single pang after the first week.

I had tried hypnosis (3 times), giving up drinking, Alan Carr, willpower, meditation and numerous other methods in the previous 30 years of on-off (mostly on) smoking.

What worked for me was the method developed by UK author and ex-smoker Gillian Riley in "How to stop smoking and stay stopped for good".

Basically she uses the more recent understanding of how the frontal cortex works to train you to face desire, experience it and work thru it. (Ther'e no ducking it.)

It also worked for the woman who put me onto it - she's several years off the fags now.

What impresses me is that now I've put myself thru the brief denial of desire thing, the desire is gone: no pangs to speak of any more. Wouldn't have thought it possible, but it is.

Of course you need to want to give up first - it's not like ordering a coffee.