There are many benefits to quitting tobacco use, and even more to never starting. Almost 90 percent of smokers who started smoking as teenagers wished they had never begun. Even more wish they knew an effective way to quit. But it is not easy to quit permanently. In fact, author Mark Twain purportedly once said that quitting smoking was easy—he had done it hundreds of times.

There are many different resources available as well as a variety of methods to help people quit using tobacco. For instance, quitting smoking depends on the smoker. No one method works for every person because the situations that trigger their smoking are different. Even the reasons smokers want to quit can differ.

Many programs are targeted for the age or characteristics of the specific tobacco user. Some methods work well for adults but do not work as well...