Alaina, here's some links that may help to ease your struggle in quitting:

I had quit thousands of times, then ... 

Caring for your quit 

Fixating on a cigarette 

"My cigarette, my friend" 

 

I just want to let you know that you are not alone in the struggle to quit.  The craves can be very strong when first quitting, so much so that the only "relief" we can get seems to come only by allowing ourselves to smoke a cigarette. Unfortunately, when we do give in to the crave it reinforces our addiction to nicotine and fills our minds with the false thoughts that quitting is "just too hard".  Develop your own strategies to get through the craves and you will find the ways to get past them.  (Slow, deep breathing in a quiet moment worked for me). 

It only takes a short period of time to rid your body of nicotine (72 hours), and the start of restoring yourself to the clean, healthy, natural you!  This doesn't mean that quitting is a piece of cake after 3 days... there usually are a few bumps in the road, but every bump will smooth out the process so long as you remain true to the committment to Never Take Another Puff. 

You've already found your way to the most informative source on the internet on quitting smoking.  I encourage you to take full advantage of all the resources here.  Arm yourself with knowledge and you'll find that you can be smarter than nicotine and don't need to be stronger than it in order to quit only one time and not every day.

 

Richard

(after more than 33 years of smoking and an uncountable number of tries to quit, I've been free from smoking for almost 2 years).