Addicted!

The story is not so great or different than of any usual smoker. I am addicted too. I am personally not so happy about my this habit, and constantly keep proving my weakness in not curbing it. Once upon a time, I was not touched by any of the known form of addiction and not even the daily, so usual, tea too. But somehow during the course of my life I gave up to my dieing will power and turned to smoke, and white ash for solace (what a glorified statement to a heinous act of self destruction).
Nevertheless, twice in my life I did try to give it up, perhaps I was overwhelmed and happy the way life was taking me ahead. I always said, that the day I decide of getting married I would start trying to give it up, at least for a new person and coming generation.
Smoking as they say, is an addiction and a rather tough one to shake it off. Few facts to note here are, a cigarette is very easily available, smoking can be done in absolutely any event, smoking can be done absolutely any where (give a damn to the Ban on Smoking), cigarette can come as cheap as 50 paise, almost 80% youngsters are smokers, so easy to find company. Armed with above stated facts (could be more to it), smoking becomes easier to be trapped in addiction. Mostly in personal view, I have noticed youngsters starting it as a sign of being cool or be in crowd. I remember going to coffee joints and our best pass time being, to notice smokers and to tell from the way they smoke, of their catergory, as in, who's faking it just for style, who's chain smoker, who's seasonal and all that stuff.
Now that we have listed what it takes and how you get attracted and then trapped, let me tell you few points in what it takes to quit.
As any addiction, smoking too neeeds a constant effort and renewal of will power, and also constant feed of motivation (now that's a question, coz I hear this more often "How do I motivate you"). Smoking as they say is physical as well as psychological addiction. Physical addiction of necotine subsides significantly after approximately 21 days (that's from some research news) of fight to curb it. Every day you refrain from smoking, the urge becomes more and more stronger; and you should always beaware of that single moment when your will power gives way to the urge and you find yourself holding a stick and puffing again; and that's wht decides how you proceed in your goal to quit smoking. And that's the point of failure where motivation comes.
Smokers find smoking an apt behavior to display at almost all kind of situations, like, waiting for a bus/someone, too much work, being sad, getting happy, and the list goes on, and that's the psychological addiction I was talking about. Smokers are more addicted to hold that cigarette they hold and puffing it rather than the kick the necotine gives them, coz a chain smoker hardly observes any kick. So here you need to be a filler to help the smoker avoid getting psychologically attracted in order to "motivate" him/her.
Also failure is a human nature, and any change can be brought only by understanding the reason for failure, and help solving it, rather than being critical in the weakness. We need to elavate the confidence and free will to curb the addiction of the subject in question.

I am on my way again to curb it, not coz of any stateable reason, than the same, coz of a new person and coming generation. I too have my own point of failures and rather critical view of them, and at the same time of fighting the urge, I am also fighting the frustration which arises by own failures, and critical statments I keep hearing. Let's see where I land.