Quit Smoking Plan 5

Change Your Lifestyle

While you by no means have to avoid your friends and start an entirely new life when you quit smoking, you should - at least in the beginning - try to be realistic about your socializing. Don't spend a lot of time with smokers in places you can smoke if you've just quit. The hardest period when trying to quit smoking will always occur at the beginning, and will end up torturing yourself if you spend that period in bars or other places that you associate with smoking.
One of the reasons people sometimes hesitate to quit smoking is they feel that they will no longer be able to socialize with their friends, or that they will be ostracized in some way. This really isn't the case, but you do have to understand that in the early stages of quitting, some lifestyle changes are going to be in order.
Avoid situations you associated with smoking in the past. You should also make an effort to make your lifestyle more active - once you quit smoking you'll likely be dealing with a lot more pent up energy and anxiety, especially during the early stages, and the best thing you can do to deal with it is to incorporate more activities into your lifestyle.
When you change your lifestyle, you also benefit from creating new associations that have nothing to do with smoking: you will be starting to partake in new activates that are in a "post-quit" phase of your life. By slowly accumulating the amount of things you do that you don't associate with smoking, you'll be gradually creating an entire life of which smoking is not a part.