how were your withdrawl symptoms from ciggs how did you do it?

it takes about 3 days for the physical symptoms to subside

The rest is mental, meaning habit.

Find something else to do with your hands.

I took up crocheting.

I also did some quilting. Both are slow, putzy things to do and helped a lot.

I quit cold turkey about 28 years ago. I used to smoke 2 packs a day.

My worst times were directly after waking up, after each meal and that last one before bed.

Those were the worst times for me.

So, I tried to find alternative things to do then, something different than I usually did.

That helped a lot.

Think it through.

You came this far, you have it licked, you just haven't told yourself that yet.

Good luck and keep going.

EDIT: I totally disagree with both other answers and here is why.

You have already been without nicotin for 2 weeks, why the HELL would you want to go get the patches and reintroduce it back into your system???

Second, again, you already quit, why would you want to "taper off"??

Please do not do either thing.

http://www.smokingtimeline.net/

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Symptoms.html

A long time....after three days it tapers off some, after three weeks it tapers off some more, after three months it tapers off a little more - but there is a real good reason why people go back to smoking after they put them down for 6 months or a year.

Do yourself a favor - DON'T EVER take a single puff or you'll be sucked right back into it. However, I would ask a pharmacist what he thinks about buying the lowest dose of nicotine patch, cutting them in half and using that to keep from wanting to leap out of your skin.

Years ago I had a professor who quit smoking. He would bum cigarettes off of a student in class while he lectured. At the end of the week, on Friday, he bought the student he bummed off of a pack of cigarettes or the price of a pack, which was a quarter then.

Gradually, by the end of the semester, he was not bumming cigarettes any more.

Yes, it was. Once he quit, no one could smoke in his class.

The answer is to taper off and when that is done, it is done. Quitting cigarettes now should be easier since it is hard to find a place to smoke now. CA has banned smoking on the beaches.

You're a scum sucker just like all the other idiots who smoke.....