Firstly, although there are many quit smoking aids and tips to quit smoking made available to the public, there are just as many sources of cigarettes and nicotine. As such, the nicotine drugs are easy to abuse.

It is easy to become addicted to them because they are widely used and most people are exposed to them early in life. As a result, stop smoking help may not be of any effect in one's youth or adulthood, as many may have already started smoking from young and most people were exposed to smoking when they were children.

As such, quit smoking tips will always be available but seldom truly effective. Because cigarette smoking is so wide spread, the quit smoking patches and several organization's proposed steps to quit smoking may only help a tiny proportion of smokers to quit smoking. Unless people deliberately and consciously want to get help to stop smoking, the impact of quit smoking commercials and advertisements will be limited.

Secondly, cigarettes are readily available to anyone who wants them. In fact, because of peer pressure, it is usually difficult to avoid using them in our society. Indeed, there can smoking bans in some areas, and perhaps stop smoking cessation programs available to those who need help.

However, the truth remains that people are concerned about their social image and would be embarrassed to be seen seeking help to quit smoking. Even more, with their friends smoking, many are pressured into being social-smokers first, and eventually smoke-addicts. Quitting smoking then becomes even more challenging.

Finally, nicotine found in cigarettes has clearly addictive properties. The use of them promotes further use, until one craves a regular "fix" in one's daily life. In fact many people do not know that the poisonous alkaloid nicotine is the chief active ingredient in tobacco found in cigarettes which people usually smoke - this is what makes it addictive and hence so hard to quit smoking.

Strong evidence exists for a nicotine-dependence syndrome for people who are addicted to smoking. This usually begins during the adolescent years and may continue into adult life as a difficult to break and health endangering habit. Also, it results from ceasing or reducing the intake of nicotine-containing substances after an individual has developed physical dependence on them, leading to the side effects and the withdrawal symptoms that follows one who quits smoking.