If you've ever tried to quit smoking, you know it isn't easy. You may have made it your New Year's resolution or maybe you tried cold turkey.

The American Cancer Society hopes you'll throw that pack away today. That's because it's the Great American Smokeout Challenge, a day singled out to motivate smokers to quit. And there's now more help than ever to make that next cigarette your last.

A smoker in South Dakota pays $6.21 for a pack of cigarettes. For a carton, they'll shell out nearly $55.00. The American Cancer Society hopes those figures are enough to make more of them quit.

Forget the patch, or that nicotine gum.  The American Cancer Society's Web site has become an interactive way to motivate smokers to smoke their last cigarette. A real eye opener is the Quit Calculator.

“You can actually put in the number of cigarettes you smoke a day, how much it costs wherever you live and in South Dakota, it is very cost prohibitive. We have very high tobacco taxes in South Dakota so it costs a lot of smoke here,” Director of Health Care Partnerships Denise Kolba said.

If you smoke two packs a day and have done so for 14 years, you've spent more than $60,000 on tobacco alone.

“We know that if we can give them the tools and the resources to quit for one day, they make it through that first day and hopefully they can make a permanent change and quit smoking,” Kolba said.

Interactive games on the Cancer Society's Web site are designed to help to kick the craving.

“We know that cravings last about two minutes, so we have a downloadable game that lasts two minutes to get you over that hump,” Kolba said. 

A Quit Day Countdown doesn't mean you have to stop cold turkey, which many smokers may find a bit easier.

“So you pick the day that you're gonna quit smoking and it will give you step by step what you can do to be most successful on that day that you actually quit and then help you through that as you go,” Kolba said.

Smokers who quit at age 35 gains an average of eight years on their life, those who quit at 55 gain about five years and even long term smokers who quit at 65 gain three years.

The American Cancer Society hopes smokers will log on and kick the habit for good.

“People are accessing our Web site more and more. We have many many more hits to our Web site than we do our call center because people seek health information over the web,” Kolba said.