1. Buy an extra atomiser, battery, and bottle of
juice in a new flavor.
2. Puff the e-cig all the time. Just for fun--enjoy making big clouds. You don't have to inhale into your lungs--just whenever you feel like it.
3. Tell yourself you can go get real cigs anytime you want--just as long as you promise yourself to puff the e-cig for 5-10 minutes, and then try to forget about having a real one for 5-10.
4. If you give in and drive out for a pack, no more smoking in the house. Any real cigs must be smoked outside in the cold.
5. Don't go out (ie out socializing with alcohol involved) for 7-10 days.
6. Don't think that slipping and having a real cigarette or 4 is a big failure. Lots of people who quit other ways do find, yes, just having 1-2 leads right back to a pack a day within a week. But I (and many others) have found quitting tobacco with an e-cig means that--once you get a taste for it and start to prefer it to regular smoking--a little slip due to alcohol, stress, or dead-batteries is just a little slip. Very little effort to get back on the wagon.
7. Look at them side by side, and say to yourself "That one gives me cancer, and that one doesn't. Which do I want now?"
1-6 are what I did. No smoking in the house, puff all the time, real cigs allowed outside after giving the e-cig a fair 20 minute chance to be sufficiently satisfying. The number of real cigs I had just dwindled until one night I went to bed thinking "Hm, I didn't smoke today."
