Best way to stop smoking ? Anti smoking discussion My Way !

Hey there I smoked for over 8 years and stopped this bad habbit one year and 5 months ago , i used to smoke one pack one pack and a half a day , i always felt without energy , my breath was heavy (i only have 26 years old) I start smoking at the age of 17 years old , i tried a couple of times before that but never succeeded but at the age of 17 years old in high school , i start smoking , i enjoyed it at first but after 4 years , felt the consequences of smoking , heavy smoking , there was no day without a pack a day :) i managed to quit only once for 1 month and i thought that i will never manage to quit for a long time but SUPRIZE ! I managed to do this the day i went to doctor and did the Septal Correction of my nose , i had this issue thill childhood , an issue non related to smoking So i had to stay 2 days with bandages in my nose after these 2 days the doctor told me that i should not smoke for 5-7 days so my nose can be healed properly. So i`ve waited 1 week , 2 weeks , 1 month , 1 year , 1 year and 5 monts and still counting. My way was COLD TURKEY , what was yours , or a friend of your who kicked this bag habbit from his life ?