I am one who can't give up that 1-2 cigs per day.
I am genuinely interested in why you desire to give up a 1-2 cigs per day habit? IMO, that equals moderate smoking, and is a pretty cool thing to be involved with. It is tough to see that thru lens of addiction, and impossible (for me) to see it as abuse. So, I do wonder what the desire is to stop?
With that said, and something that does not necessarily apply to charly1954, but I feel does apply to vaping community / ex-smokers and what this thread is kinda about - I'm often wondering why vapers, of all people, don't give themselves full permission to smoke. I've heard some vapers / ex-smokers claim that if they had one, it would lead to full on smoking (aka abuse), but I wonder how true or accurate that is? Mainly cause there are so many stories where very heavy smoker (2-3 PAD) quit smoking on first puff of vaping. So, that being the case, it would stand to reason that if you suddenly had a full pack in a day, then the next day you could vape and plausibly either minimize the return to full on smoking or possibly halt it in its tracks.
IMO, based on a whole lot of anecdotal evidence, you have to want to stop vaping to go back to full time smoking. Which I think is very very important to realize. For if do you both, you are likely to minimize smoking, and that is assuming you are giving yourself full permission to smoke.
As I've said before, when I quit cold turkey for like 8 years, after about 30 days, I gave myself full permission to smoke. But as the cravings were gone, that never materialized until about 8 years later. Most of that time, smoking was about as important to me as wanting to plan a trip to the moon to go sightseeing (read as: not at all important).
Anyway, I still have something that is between wonder and concern for vaping community members (of which I am one) whereby smoking is to be treated as something to swear off and never ever consider doing again. Which often comes off as masking a fear of returning to place where that person will abuse smoking, have heath issues, be shamed by society, and live a dismal/depressing life. I don't get that from persons who are smoking 10 logs or less a day, as that strikes me as close to, if not full on, moderate smoking.
I'm currently on pace of smoking about a pack a month which, in my book, is ideal. I would prefer to be in this camp than the one that labels logs as stinkies and wishes everyone would just quit so we can further stigmatize and shame the rest of the smoking community. I realize that majority of vapers actually treat it like a gray area and aren't actually into shaming smoking. Yet, on vaping forums, when we do choose to discuss smoking / ex-smoking it seems like we have tendency to go in direction whereby we (vapers) will shame the act of smoking and do what we can to encourage others to quit outright and then be proud to be 'off the stinkies.'
I do actually loathe that mentality and take issue with fellow vapers who express themselves in this manner. IMO, it is one small step away from ANTZ logic, were it not for love of vaping (nicotine). I also dislike that on the politics of nicotine, the vaping community sometimes shows up with willingness to throw smokers under the bus, while hoping 'they' (ANTZ types) will be more flexible with how vaping works and how it is nothing like smoking. IMO, ANTZ don't work like that. How do I know this? Cause sometimes when I look in the mirror, especially when I went cold turkey, I saw, or can see, an ANTZ type looking back at me. And I'd rather shame the ANTZ side of me, than shame the side of me that dares to
enjoy being a moderate smoker.
/rant
I was a member 3 months before I got enough nerve up to post here 
