When you see such stock phrases, consider what follows them with a cautious eye.  While well intentioned, the one-fits-all prepackaged perspective that is implicit in them suggests views on smoking and the smoking-cessation process that often do not hold water.

For example, the fundamental, and most erroneous, assumption such "advice" or "tips" make is that there is a significant degree of homogeneity among smokers, i.e. they assume that all smokers light up for the same reason and the meaning they attach to the smoking process has been and is identical.  That is markedly inconsistent with my experience over these past 20 years.  Each and every smoker has his or her own reason - or mosaic of reasons - for lighting up.  These reasons typically reflect an effort to cope with a unique and complex mixture of current perceptions and experiences as well as those they have had over the course of their lifetime.  In addition, the impulse to smoke frequently reflects an effort to cope with a wide variety of both conscious and unconscious factors - factors that often impact on other aspects of how the individual lives as well.

Another invalid assumption such "advice" or "tips" implicitly suggest is that what may be helpful to other smokers in their efforts to become smoke-free will be equally helpful to you.  Presumably, all you need do is pick and choose among the suggestions.  By some chance, some pre-determined suggestions may be helpful.  However, with the wide variety of factors influencing your decision to smoke or not to - and how much, it's more likely than not that any given suggestion from such a list will be (1) irrelevant to your particular smoking experience and (2) not sensitive to the subtle nuances of your particular smoking-cessation needs.  That's wasteful of your time, energies and monies.  What is optimal is a treatment approach that, from the beginning, focuses exclusively on the identification of your unique smoking-related issues and gives them the attention they deserve.