Is it normal that i can't go 15 minutes without a cigarette?

It's not normal. Say adios to your lungs. You never should have gotten hooked in the first place. You know it is foolish to smoke. And yes, I have a habit myself. But my habit isn't destructive to myself or anybody else unlike the cancer-inducing habit of smoking.

(but it's your body and your money, so whatever. Just don't inflict second-hand smoke on people and you're fine.)

A friend in college once asked me to lock him in a shed in the forest for a week so he could quit. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to locate the shed again, and a couple years later there was an article in the news about a corpse in a shed.

I smoked for 50 years. I never really smoked more than a pack a day. Mostly 3/4 of a pack was normal. However, I gave it up when I heard the buzzing of angel wings. Quit cold turkey and never looked back. That was almost 5 years ago. I don't really miss them either. But like a recovering alcoholic who keeps a bottle of booze in the house, I have 5 packs left from a carton in my cupboard from 5 years ago. You just need the proper motivation to quit.

I lit up while reading this.

dirty habit and I hate smokers

Try vaping! I quit smoking as soon as l started to vape

You need a brand of cigarette with more nicotine in it.

How do you hold down a job if you need to smoke every 15 minutes? You can't take breaks that much or can you?

I can relate, since I was a heavy smoker for more years than I can to say (not 50, though!).

I'm not sure I completely buy the addictive personality explanation. I've never tried notoriously addictive things like heroin and cocaine, but I've certainly had easy access to alcohol most of my life, but that's always been something I can take or leave - most often leave.

I read recently that it's possible people seriously addicted to tobacco either have systems that remove nicotine from the bloodstream very efficiently, there's something unusual about the brain centers that get a buzz from nicotine, or both.

In any case, the only way I stopped smoking 50+ a day was by the use of a nicotine inhaler. These days, vaping does the same thing.

you sound desperate. doctors will give you nicotine patches ,gum. and you will climb the walls and fail. google metoprolol,animal studies , addiction. its getting real hard to find the animal study. never exceed one tablet a day or your heart rate may cause you fainting . seven days works fine . seven tablets divided any way from being a non smoker. Turns out all the side effect of drug withdrawal are combated with one drug. metoprolol is non addictive. Nowhere in my story did i say to take metoprolol . Metoprolol has no use in drug prevention programs . you can't go 15 minutes without a smoke ? you are already dead.

Yes for people with an addictive personality. Don't ever take LSD you'll go through two packs in twelve hours.