You won't be able to quit if you tell yourself: "ill only smoke on weekends, then dim it down and then ill stop." won't work cos on a shitty day, you'll just "fuck it" and smoke one anyways. Here are a few ways that helped quit from a pack a day:
-Never, EVER, buy cigarettes again. (now for me that kinda work but since all my friend smoke, i ended up smoking a few a day anyways, just not mines. I'd even ask randoms in the street...)
-Get an e-cig if you feel awkward in social situations where everybody smokes, and ONLY USE IT IN THOSE SITUATIONS. Using it at home knowing that it's not bad for you, you'll end up using it all the time, paying loads and evidently end up smoking cigs cos fuck it. If you can be strong enough never to smoke when you're alone, and smoke your ecig "socially", it'll become easy from there.
-It's all in your brain, it's all about how you think, don't even bother with all the nicotine patch bullshit. The biggest things for me were:
Live by the fact that you're already the world's biggest idiot for having smoked all those cigs, and you might not be able to ski at 50 because of that. Yeah, you're a huge fucking dumbass. And you should beat yourself up for having the only thought of smoking a cig, common, wtf are you thinking?
If you touch a cig, you're a dependent ass loser. If you can't even restrain yourself, how the hell are you gonna live life successfully? You're bigger than this, you're better than this, and every cig you don't smoke is a huge "Fuck yeah, come at me bro, you got nothing on me bitch".
DO OR DO NOT THERE IS NO TRY (yoda few) This is your only chance not to fuck up. If you stop, you fucking stop. You don't try for a week. You get it in your head, you stop fucking around and you beat this bitch to the floor.
Good luck to you man, you can do it.