For nonsmokers, quitting smoking may seem like a no-brainer. It is bad for your health, can cause heart disease and lung cancer, gives you bad breath, can cause cancer of the throat or mouth, can cause emphysema, accelerates the aging process and causes wrinkles, turns fingernails and teeth yellow, and can lead to a dangerously low birth weight in babies of smoking mothers. With all this evidence to show the reasons to quit, why is it so hard to do it?

Quitting smoking is arguably one of the hardest habits to break. For smokers, quitting is not just a matter of piling up the evidence against the habit. And in most cases willpower is not enough either. This is where most nonsmokers, and many smokers, get confused. They think that you should be able to just control yourself and not pick them up.

To quit smoking, you not only have to break a physical addiction to nicotine, but you also have to break a very strong psychological addiction to the act of smoking and the benefits derived from it. Most people find that these two addictions in combination create a scenario where they try to quit and fail perhaps numerous times.

If this has happened to you, you know the routine. You smoke for a while, increasing your habit up to a pack or maybe two packs a day. Then you decide it