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What is the point of nicotine patches?
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This is absolutely the right approach, even if you were planning to quit from the start (not the case with you, but still). "This is my last ever cigarette" just caused me to delay and delay and delay. The only realistic way to do it for me was one craving at a time ("I'm not smoking for the next hour"), then a day at a time. Handling the hours and days was hard, but once you do that the weeks and months take care of themselves.
Vaping for me was a major misstep. Just caused me to consume more nicotine than when I was smoking.
Agreed on the vaping. When I went to vaping, I was smoking about 20 a day. There was a short time when I went back to smoking after vaping, and it was around 30 a day at that point, because I was so used to a constant feed of nicotine.
Playing devil's advocate though, it's still not a bad thing. If the goal is 0 nicotine, it's a problem, but if the goal is specifically not smoking then I find it to be one of the easier methods. I always said at the time "we don't know the long term effects of vaping, but we do know the long term effects of smoking"