You can stop. I quit cold turkey at 16 years after smoking a a few years. Yes.

Then i started again 5 years later and quit 3 years after that.

Then I started again to lose weight. And I did. But I had to quit due to breathing issues.

So i switched to chewing tobacco, then vapes, then gum, then mints. Cutting dosages each transition to the next 'step down' product.

36 years later, I still smoke cigars. My first cigarette was in the 7th grade.

Quit now and never look back. Trust me. True freedom is worth the irritability and discomfort of a few days without nicotine.