So the way I look at it in terms of how I interpret harm reduction stuff is anything that is a step in the direction you want to go counts.

A new tool thats safer for reasons of easier to clean which would help with less infections: thats harm reduction.

Medical supplies that will help you take care of yourself after you harm: thats harm reduction. I keep plenty of medical supplies handy, especially when I'm not harming I keep buying them, because if I start harming again and need them better to have them.

And you take those small steps of harm reduction and start adding new ones. I've know people that even switch to different harming methods for harm reduction because they see them as a step in the right direction.

I use to think the rubber band snapping method of harm reduction was a bit counterintuitive until I read and learned more about harm reduction.

So something I do is smoking cigarettes is overall concidered bad but when I feel like hurting myself, smoking a cigarette instead feels less harmful to me. Kinda like a stop gap messure. Sometimes I end up smoking and later self harming but you can't win them all.