I got some advice about quitting smoking that has seemed to stick in my craw - the advice comes from the Alan Carr book, that book that I have derided in the past and which seems now to be the best possible solution to my giving up problem - but the advice came from somebody else in a reformulated way - not that the concept, the kernel, of this advice is hard to understand, I just never saw the importance of it after I read the Carr book but now believe it to be the essence of quitting for good. My friend said to me that every cigarette being smoked ultimately makes you want to smoke the next one - so to break the chain, I must concentrate on that final cigarette and then afterwards convince myself that i am a happy nonsmoker. Simple, heh?