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I quit 25 years ago, cold turkey and never looked back. Some say that humans are rational beings; I say humans are rationalizing beings. We make up any sort of excuse to avoid something uncomfortable and if we do end up "failing", then that's used as an excuse to simply "give up". For me, the mindset was important. "Trying" simply is another way of saying "I'm allowing myself to fail". If you make it most of the day and happen to smoke one, how it that a failure if you used to smoke twenty? Sounds like a success to be built on, not a reason (excuse) to tear yourself down and go back to the pack a day habit.
As others have said, after the initial three days the nicotine cravings will subside. When breaking a bad habit, finding something to replace it with is the most difficult. One thing that I always remembered was that if I tell myself that I'm going to wait an hour, minute, second before I have that smoke then I give myself a chance to find something else to do and the urge goes away. It's simply not possible to concentrate on something in an attempt to not think about it!
Bad habits are hard to break and good habits are hard to make. You can do it, heck I remember how hard it was to initially START smoking.
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