So you have made up your mind that this is the year you will finally break the habit and do away with cigarettes forever. You've gathered your support and have some ideas about how you will go about it. But quitting smoking is far from easy and the more information you have, the higher your chances of success.

Do you get the urge to take a drag routinely throughout the day, sometimes without giving it much thought before lighting one up? Is smoking as regular a habit as having a glass of water when you're thirsty or going to the bathroom? If you do it throughout the day without thinking about it then it's habit, and you don't need to be told that smoking is bad for your health.

Often people are addicted to something without ever realizing they are addicted. Often they don't realize they have an addiction until they decide to stop whatever it is they are doing.

Smoking can lead to depression: Smoking is one of the vices that is very difficult to give up, but the following 10 reasons to quit smoking can definitely help you to give it up: Avoid heart attack and strokes - I'm sure you would like to lead a long and healthy life. This is possible only if you stop smoking. Smoking can increase the risk of suffering a heart attack, as well as a stroke.

Helping a man to stop smoking after 43 years and supporting a woman to quit cigarettes following 15 previous relapses are just two examples where a local pharmacy made the difference of a life time...

With the Quit Smoking Today program, you will lose your desire to smoke after the first session. Subsequent sessions will reinforce the powerful message and keep you from wanting to smoke for longer periods of time.