siv quits smoking.

I quit about two and a half years ago, just because it was time, but most people I know quit because of surgery. It just seems like an opportune time. As for a new hobby, I highly recommend doing something that involves using your hands, as that's part of the habitual appeal of smoking. Try paper cranes, like Erica said, or knitting works well too. Anything to keep your hands busy and distracted.

I did hypnotherapy when I quit, and after I got through the first four days, the rest was cake.

But, hey, you can get away with it. Someone mentioned water. I keep a few thirty two ounce water bottles lying around to curb my obsessive, bunny like desire to chew on things. The upside is that I don't eat as much, the downside is that I'm constantly in and out of the loo.

Alternately, may I suggest Pocky, good licorice, chewing on strips of leather, or a punching bag?

Cloning and robots.

Okay, in the place of smoking, you need to start volunteering at retirement homes... and beating the old people at things they love, like shuffleboard and horse shoes. Trust me, the high you get as you watch their wrinkly faces turn into scowls is better than anything you'll experience from cigarettes.

my grandmother kicked a 40 year habit after a hysterectomy--she felt so pukey after the anesthesia that she had absolutely no desire to smoke. maybe you'll be just as lucky. of course, she started back after a couple of years because i think she just missed the ritual. then of course she got cancer and died.

do it for your health and your wallet.

If you have a legit health reason for doing so then run with it. I quit after 13 years of smoking because of health complications. Most of all, do it for yourself.

I just started drinking heavier. If you can't lift your arms you can't pick up a smoke.

It's good for your health and your complexion and all that. It'll take less time for cigarettes to make you look like a yellowed prune than to give you throat cancer. Probably.

You can always try Zyban, which sometimes has this entertaining side-effect of making women extra horny.

Stop buying cigarettes and bum them from your friends. Eventually, you will have no friends and no one to give you smokes!

I'm totally a genius.

Start juggling.