What is the best way to quit smoking?!

What is the best way to quit smoking?

I haven't smoked in two days but starting to get the cravings. I'm not even sure if I want to quit permanently. Maybe I just want to take a "break".

They say after two days, the craving is all in your head, and
it's only psychological. The hardest part is the withdrawl your
body goes through in the first 24hours. Aside from that text-
book info., I'll advise you, here and now, to take a permanent
break from smoking. For two reasons, later on, they will be
harder if not seemingly impossible to lay down. And second,
if a doctor one day tells you that you have to quit due to
some malfunction in breathing, you will be able to put them
down. The longer you smoke the harder it is to quit. I was
a smoker for all of my adult life. I quit several times but
stress usually brought me back to smoking again. I had
a boyfriend get me started in highschool and it was cool
to be among those kids that did smoke. But I hid it from
my parents and succeeded til I was able to quit them.
I restarted when I started working after highschool, but I
never smoked at home. Only on work breaks. Then that
changed to becoming hooked and I smoked steadily.
Then when my daughter had a child, I became his care
giver and she didn't want me smoking around the baby. I
quit again for four years, and then picked up the habit
one more time. Four years ago, I had to quit for good. It
affected the way I breathed. And I had developed Asthma,
and a heart condition. Quitting smoking the last time was
the hardest thing I've had to do as I still crave them once in
awhile. I hear most people do. They have ingredients that
make them more habit forming now, and it's so easy to
become hooked after just a drag or two. You can't just have
one and leave them alone. They aren't made to 'work' that
way. I had to make the choice of whether I wanted an early
grave by trying to inhale to smoke and enjoy it, or breathe
and put up with the withdrawls. Well I chose to breathe, as I
didn't want to die. It came down to that fact. So I've been
a non smoker for about five years. And now I'm hooked on
the Nicorette gum. But my doctor would rather me be on
that for stress, than cigs that have tar that coats the lungs
and shortens lives. I have to wean myself off of the gum
next, since it's been really too long. But they serve as a
buffer to stress, and I still 'need' them.
So please take my advise, it isn't cool to smoke. It is down-
right dumb. I know only 'losers' smoke, from first hand
experience. As you will be a loser too, if your life is taken
away. Tough love, kiddo, but true to life!