Good luck to you on this good effort. I smoked, heavily, for about 20 years and I "quit" many times before I was actually ready to quit. Basically my asthma gave me a choice - smoke or breath.... It is sad that I had to get so bad to be able to quit, but I finally succeeded back in the early 90's. Every time I wanted a smoke I forced myself to think of things that I could do better/easier if I wasn't smoking...it did help.

Hang in there. It is your choice about the medication, I don't know much about that. It seems that everything has so many side-effects that I make it my practice to avoid such things as much as possible but sometimes they are necessary.