And yet it's the only successful way to quit. You have to get help. You have to work the program. You have to alter your behavior so you stop automatically reaching for a cigarette.

No one can do it for you. And people have their own problems and struggles. It's no one's job to hold your hand through the whole process and make sure you do the work and give you an "atta boy cookie" for every milestone you make. They don't get that. Why should you?

So your choice is to either recognize you have a smoking problem, commit to change, seek and get the help you need, do the work, change your behavior, be accountable to yourself for yourself, and slowly become better.

-- or --

Continue whining about how nobody has any empathy for smokers and their struggles, dodging accountability, being too prideful to get help, shirking the work, puffing away, puffing away, puffing away until one day you die of cancer, sad and alone without even a cat to mourn your passing because they don't like cigarette smoke either.

Your choice. It's the same choice everyone else has about many aspects of their lives.