I quit smoking for good by vaping. I was an 'accidental quitter', I loved to smoke. My wife is a cancer survivor, so I never smoked inside. I got tired of freezing in winter, so i started vaping so I could do it indoors.

Smoking is a complicated addiction. All of us are physically addicted to nicotine, but the other various aspects hold different power, over different people.

Some want a big cloud on exhale (that needs more vegetable glycerin in your vape juice.  Some want a more powerful 'throat hit' (that needs more propolyene glycol).  Some want strong flavors.  Some need the hand to mouth ritual.

Once you can identify these aspects, you can fine tune your vaping experience to what YOU want. It will never taste like your old cig, sorry.

Once I got mine like I liked it, I had a shocking thought. I could do this instead of smoking.  After a month of two you start to get your taste back (I like lots of Scoville units, but I had to back way off on my normal hot food, once I could taste it properly).  I vaped for about 10 years, now have gone about 2 years with nothing.

To calculate the money saved was a huge help. I had an app on my phone, "since my last cigarette" or something. You entered in how much you smoked, and how much it cost.  It constantly showed a running total of money saved, and cigarettes NOT smoked.  When I was weakening I could look at that, and it sometimes would keep me from backsliding.

Cigarette money became my DCA.  Recommended.