Hey, first and foremost you got the foundation of leaving cigs behind-- recognizing it's a problem. While I'm not an avid cig. smoker ( would smoke occasionally on and off back when depression wasn't managed), but my dad was for almost 42 years-- about one and a half packs a day. I also used to be a stoner with my own pipe and everything for a couple of years, but I stopped as well. How he and I stopped, and in my opinion how you stop anything all comes down to this--
You got to stop liking it. I know. That's so vague. But that's really all it takes. Somehow, you're going to have to get yourself to stop liking it. Maybe it's that really shitty smell. Maybe it's the amount of money you toss away per month for doing it. Maybe it's the hassle in the day and the time you waste either thinking of smoking a cig/smoking one. Something has to click. Otherwise, you'll never stop. My dad was in love with smoking-- so he was a bit different from you, and he didn't recognize the problem. It was only when he picked up the habit of jogging that he realized he could hardly run for 5 minutes because his lungs were so terribly damaged. He tried to smoke again, and ran. And running just didn't work. He then realized that he was done with cigarettes, he was done with how terrible his breathing was. Dropped 42 years just like that. Moved onto vaping w/o nicotine which is what he loves now.
Same here with weed. I used to be ADDICTED to weed. No joke. Weed and me were like a dog and its bone. Suddenly I made a connection. My grades are shit, my mental health is more shit, my already low energy is now nonexistent. All I was able to do was turn on the TV and stare. If I had to go to school, which i only went 30% of the time, I would throw on sweats, throw on a sweatshirt and not even brush my hair and leave. I realized I was fucking sick of this lifestyle. Weed would be fine every now and then, but personally-- I am not a person who benefits from daily use-- at all. So I smoked a few more times in a couple days, hated every puff, and said, "I quit. I'm sick of being a fucking potato that does nothing but cry for more weed and sea salt and vinegar chips." Threw out my pipe.
SO TLDR; If you want to stop smoking, you gotta go cold turkey. It's something psychological. You're either all in, or you're not in at all. Best of luck. I reeeeeaaaallly recommend switching it over with vaping w/o nicotine. So much better tasting than both weed and cigarettes, honestly. My dad is proof and millions of others who have switched over are as well. @ _xxx_ really knows what they're talking about. Best of luck amigo, you can definitely do it.