Brent,
If you want, you can try the "cold turkey" (just stop smoking, immediately) method of quitting which if you look around on the forums, here, you will find it having be discussed and argued.
I (a 84" tall man) quit smoking "cold turkey" in the winter of 1987, weighing about 220 pounds and then in the following decade, gained as much as 80 pounds.
I haven't smoked since 1987 and I've lost almost 50 pounds in the last 5 years (quite different than the 100 pounds I lost in 1973!).
My weight was not much in the eyes of most S.A.D. (Standard American Die)] eating persons but I was physically uncomfortable, inflexible, sweat a great deal during hot weather or whenever I exerted myself, and it was a burden carrying around all that weight.
So I would be very careful about approaching quitting smoking "cold turkey", if I were you.
Make sure that you have a counselor or a doctor to consult and be aware that you may suddenly be very hungry all the time.
Instead of the "cold turkey" method, I recommend that you find a gradual method to use and commit to it.
One gradual method is to figure what are the total amount of cigarettes you usually smoke in one day and start there, smoking that amount today and then one less tomorrow, and one less the next day, and so on until you have reached the point where you have gotten down to one cigarette and it's much easier to go from one cigarette to none the next day as it is to go from a pack or two a day to no cigarettes the next day.
While you are in the process of quitting, you might start working on some new ways of dealing with the feelings that you will be having like want to smoke, or wanting to eat lots of food or wanting to binge on lots of snacks, desserts or various comfort foods.
What I experience and believe to be true and you might have a similar experience is that every time I feel like I want a cigarette there is some kind of stimulus, negative or positive that is proceeding the feeling of wanting to smoke.
Someone says something disconcerting and I want a cigarette, I'm trying to figure out the solution to a problem and I feel like I want a cigarette, a gorgeus blond walks by and smiles at me and I feel a little anxious and I want a cigarette.
Whether it is after a meal that I want a cigarette or after being intimate with someone that I want a cigarette, there will always be those times when I will feel like I want a cigarette and those are the times that I must find more appropriate ways of dealing with those feelings than by having a cigarette.
If one just pays attention to the feelings and acknowledges them and then releases or lets go of the feelings, and breathes, then one can more easily cope with the matter at hand, whatever it might be.
If one is working, for instance on a school project, or driving a car, or cooking some food, or is engaged in a conversation with someone and then a thought or feeling comes up that is disturbing and one feels like one wants a cigarette, one can go for it or one can say, "okay, I'm having this feeling and I want a cigarette" and then one just lets go of that thought, breathes, and refocuses at the matter at hand.
If this is a new concept to you, then you find it hard to do this, then maybe you could find some form of meditation like Buddhist
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/meditation.html , Insight
http://www.insightmeditation.org/ , or Vippasanna
http://www.dhamma.org/ that could teach you to pay attention to your breath, and acknowledge and then let go of every thought and feeling that comes up, returning to just breathing.
If you are presently smoking commercial machine rolled cigarettes such as Marlboro or something, then I would first switch to something purer like American Spirit, then find a tobacconist that sells the organic tobacco and start rolling you own which will give you greater satisfaction while smoking fewer cigarettes and maybe then follow the one less cigarette a day method while paying attention to your thoughts and feelings and then letting them go and breathing easier.
As long as you are smoking, you might benefit by eating a miso soup every day (miso made from organic soybeans and barley) with wakame sea vegetable, some onion, daikon, and nappa cabbage, for instance.
The miso and sea vegetable can help neutralize the effects of the tar and nicotine on your system, and later after you have stopped smoking, it can help remove all the residual tar and nicotine and help repair all the damage the smoking has caused.
Of course you can try the other various herbs and herbal cigarettes and maybe they will be effective in helping you, I don't know.
The patches and other mechanisms look like great fun but probably has little place in a macrobiotic healing approach.
Please let us know what you finally do and how it goes with you.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine