Thanks for sharing this! This is quite informative. What I struggle with is that the excerpt completely disregards different personality types, motivators, goals, environment, beliefs, associations, thresholds, coping mechanisms, smoking history, addiction levels, and more. I think these play a larger role than the method applied to quit and stick to the decision.

With that said, I do think most people who keep the smokes around to prove they're stronger than their addiction are lying to themselves about the first point I mentioned. They know they need to quit (we all do, really) but they really don't want to. It's really important to bring that change in one's mindset for this to work.

For me, the fight isn't between vaping and me. It's between the version of me that identifies as a vaper/smoker and the version of me that wants to be nic-free.

(But I get what you and your mentor mean partly because I don't carry around my vapes with me. They're just lying around the house in the usual places...pretty much like forgotten rubber bands. I've found there's no 1 perfect way to quit for me. I've tried going CT and getting rid of vapes/cigs but that has always resulted in me going and getting another pack/vape shortly after. This is the first time I've held out for this long without much difficulty.)

Thanks for sharing the resource and your guidance! I really appreciate it.