Using smartStore in an iOS app that integrates with salesforce mobile-sdk iOS

Question

How to create a standalone opportunity for an iOS application using the SmartStore infrastructure?

so far in our application we have implemented all modules using direct requests for salesforce using SFRestApi using delegate methods such as

// Send a request factory message to the singleton SFRestAPI instance
let request = SFRestAPI.sharedInstance.requestForQuery("SELECT Name FROM User LIMIT 10")    
SFRestAPI.sharedInstance.send(request,delegate:self)

Now we want to store data on the device using smartStore . How will we continue? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks in advance.