I was bed ridden for a couple months. No-one would wheel my bed out for a cigarette but they did give me patches. After 2 months I figured the hard work was done, and I was very low mobility anyway, so I kept up with the patches. By the time I was decently mobile I was completely off the chemical addiction and just had random intense, but brief, cravings.

It isn’t scalable really. Not the easiest things I’ve done, but one of the easier things I did that year.

More relevant was my path from cigarettes to vaping. I would quit cigarettes until I got strong cravings. Then I’d buy 10, only 10, smoke them as normal then go back to vaping only. I found the craving for “real” cigs came fewer and farther between. I didn’t mind letting myself fall off the wagon as long as there was some resistance to it, and I would immediately (after 10) get back on. I’d also throw up other barriers to cigs Vs vape, I’d vape in the house, but would force myself into the rain for a cig.

I was 15/day avg so on a day stressful enough to make me fall off, that 10 would be gone in an afternoon.