many years ago I went cold turkey from tobacco cigarettes and then due to some emotional stress, I just bought a pack of cigarettes. 20 years later, I bought electronic cigarettes more or less so I could smoke in a non-smoking hotel room and maybe get a little wind back for hill climbing on my bicycle. I went down from 25 smokes a day to 9 and then to 5. The thing is, when I made that hard push from 9 to 5, I had to make sure there was ALWAYS a fully charged battery with a fresh cartridge. A full battery and fresh cartridge [this is subjective but it is an answerable question with the right experiment] tastes better and satisfies more than sucking on fire. So if you're looking for advice, if you want to win a war, make sure you have enough ammo.