Kick The Habit

If you're still smoking now, then you're doing so despite the obvious and very publicized facts about what it's actually doing to you and what it's still going to do to you - so although you may now want to kick the habit successfully and permanently, you're going to find that's just not the simple task that you originally thought it might be.
Throughout a great many years of our history, there have been millions of people that have smoked while being blissfully ignorant of its' deadly effects. There's hardly anyone on the planet these days that could possibly claim ignorance of these effects.
There's actually been a heap of opposition to the smoking of tobacco over the years, generally by the main religious bodies. In fact, even the Nazi's had a serious anti-tobacco movement which obviously came to a stop when they did at the end of WW2 - bet you never knew that!
It was actually during the 1920s that German scientists made the very significant link between smoking and deadly lung cancer. Then it was only later during the 1950's that all the destructive-to-health aspects emerged once again, making it very difficult for the world population to ignore the facts - smoking is very definitely bad for your health.
Thankfully since then and most especially throughout the western countries, world-wide cigarette consumption has been steadily declining, although (amazingly) smoking is most definitely not 'dead-and-buried' - there are still plenty of smokers out there.
Historians know that the smoking of tobacco has been around for more that just a few years - did you really think it was only a recently learned habit? They've estimated that our species actually began to partake of the 'dreaded weed' as long ago as 5000 BC.
As part and parcel of all the various rituals, religious or otherwise, incense was very often burned which slowly led to the practice of what we'd now call "smoking for pleasure'. Then of course, there was just no stopping it.
Initially, people smoked through things like a 'hookah', a 'pipe' or a 'smoking tube' with cigarettes as we know them today only hitting the scene much later.
It's very obvious that people in the early days never had any real worry about the health aspects of inhaling tobacco smoke - that link wasn't going to be made until much later.
In fact, tobacco has actually been considered at times throughout its' history, as medicinal - along with opium. It's just mind-numbingly incredible how very ignorant and self-destructive our species really can be!
In summary; knowing a little of the history behind one of our deadliest habits is important and even though you're bound to find it a little tough at first, being able to kick the habit is much easier than you think - YOU ONLY HAVE TO WANT TO!
Quitting smoking naturally, speedily, and permanently isn't and has never been about overly complicated systems and/or poisonous pills and patches - it's all about simplicity, a little bit of will-power and some genuine tried and tested tobacco-quitting knowledge.