$US 4160 per annum, what's your utilities bill for a year?

Woke up with no urge to smoke this morning. Tried to smoke anyway out of habit and didn't want it. Put it out after two drags.
Think I've turned a corner here!

Well I'll tell you how I did it but it probably won't work for you. It took me almost a year to quit after multiple attempts. I was a heavy smoker , 3 packs a day, for about five years back in the early 80's.
  I switched over to the Merit lights, don't know if they are even still around but they were like smoking cardboard, it made smoking less pleasant.
 Every time I lit up I also asked myself If I really wanted the butt or was it just a nervous habit.
    I would also make myself cough when smoking as a negative reinforcement.
 Was at a buddy's bar one night and ran out of Merits so bought and smokes most of a pack of Lucky Strikes. Think I got a case of nicotine poisoning along with a real good hang over. Couldn't eve look at a butt for about three days and I ran with it.
  Had to change a lot of behavior, no bars, no drinking which was a trigger and I was miserable for about six months. Had to stay away from a lot of my friends who were smokers because they were triggers. My life style changed because of quitting, it was all I really thought about.
  The hardest time was about six weeks into the quit after the physical addiction had past but the nervous need for a butt to fill up time became almost unbearable, boredom is your enemy keep your hands and mind busy. Most people who quit fall off the wagon around that time. Tighten your resolve for when the craving returns.
I also ate a lot of grapes and apples that year. Also smoked a little pot
 It's been over 45 years since I last smoked, no cigars, no pipes and no butts and I still miss it. Have some friends who keep trying to get me back with cigars, guess the don't understand.
 The first morning cigarette with a good cup of coffee while watching a sun rise is the thing I miss the most. They will always be with you if you quit and if  you can't kick them they will kill you.
 Don't know if this helped, I don't talk about what it took for me to quit much. The path I took was a hard path but quitting any addiction is brutal.
 Don't give up, even a moment of weakness doesn't mean failure, we are all human. Keep at it and don't stop.
   

Great that you are doing this. Even cutting way back is huge. Puritanical ranting aside, anyone can see that a few cigs a week are better than multiple packs a day.
One of my buds quit again recently, and decided to paint the house. Just seeing the stains on all the inside walls was enough to gross him out and help him stay quit.
Hopefully you can quit altogether.
So glad I never started.
Peace, brother.

Ok, so can you restrict the fags to work hours? Possibly stick to apples at lunch?

"There's your problem right there. You're bullsh!tting yourself. Either stop or don't, the choice is yours to make. Making a post about it is just more bullsh!tting."

 Yeah don't ever ask for advice, that makes sense.

 The quit or don't quit mentality of addiction is often confused with one's lack of commitment.  Removing oneself from an addiction is a lot like the opposite activity of getting better at something very challenging like a marathon when you haven't run in years.

 It makes no sense to say run a marathon or don't run a marathon unless one can already run that far.  Asking for advice, getting tools, learning tricks is part of the process.  The expectation that one be able to run 26.21 miles the morning after they decide to take the challenge is just as ridiculous as expecting someone to stop smoking the day after they learn they have cancer.

My wife quit cold turkey the day we found out she was pregnant with our first child and has never had the desire to smoke ever again.  She finds it disgusting in every way now (as do I)...the smoke, the way it makes people smell, the brown tar build up on everything, the ash...really gross!!  

Good luck!

Man, four butts a day means you are right on the edge of getting the monkey off your back. Keep at it and ramp it down. As I said before It's not easy, at least it wasn't for me. You are not only stopping smoking you are changing your life style for the better.