So, when I quit smoking cold turkey, I was a non-smoker, yes? I only ask cause some think if I smoke again (which I did), that I didn't really quit. Yet, my not smoking for a decade would strongly suggest otherwise.
I agree. For 10 yrs, you were a non-smoker -- if you hadn't made the choice to go back to smoking, you'd have remained that, but no one can know what one's future choices will or may be -- so while the first choice was in effect, any later ones were unknowable, and therefore irrelevant.
When I had to briefly had to return to smoking after my illness (in order to make the godawful cravings go away, which vaping wasn't touching!), I didn't mean it to become abusive -- but by the 3rd day of my return, I had smoked an entire pk by 6pm -- and I didn't get out of bed until 11am. I was appalled, and it showed me that, to me, cigarettes are just like alcohol -- even one, and I'm right back where I was within a VERY short time.
And even if you smoked abusively again, by choice, then you would have choice to return to vaping and experience cessation again. I'm not sure why that is difficult to understand.
It wasn't choice that got me back to abusive smoking -- it was 39 years of ADDICTION -- and I was still vaping! Yes, I did choose to return to full-time vaping and zero smoking -- but it took me a month to get there. And even after I'd been VERY HAPPILY smoke-free for 10 days, the godawful cravings came back, just as bad -- and the only thing that made them go away was WTA. Without WTA, I'd have been back to smoking AGAIN. Sure, a choice -- to NOT suffer, instead of suffer.
I agree that vaping is the cure for smoking, if one wants it to be that. For a majority of us, who smoked for decades, any smoking has the potential for the habit to get its hooks back into us, just as deeply as they ever were.
Andria