I am Jay Gutknecht and have smoked since 12 years old and am almost 55 now. I have tried before and last time was last year I made it a week. I wish I had found this program and am going through the preporation and am going to try the small steps. When I tried before the symptoms seemed to me to get worse daily and all consuming so I may take the suggestion of seeing a doctor as well. I'm a truck driver so some of the medications I can't use like chantrix since they now say that it will disqualify me from driving while on it. Not sure what else is available that way. My wife quit using chantrix.