I picked up my delivery at the post office on the way to work. Ripped it open first red light. Assembled one second red light. Vaped all the rest of way to work, and all day in my (luckily private, door-close-able) office. Vaped to nicotine satiety.
Got home, poured out of my work clothes and into my lovely Barefoot Comfort Robe (gotta plug those, they're amazing), propped up in my pillows, gazed at my pack of Marlboros on the bedside table, which looked suddenly boring and distasteful, sampled a lotta carts, blissed out, and haven't wanted an analog since. At all.
(I also used my Magnificent Mind Mastery skills not to bother to entertain the idea.)
(And I did take one hit off a friends analog several weeks later. Curiosity. It was disgusting.)
I was a very heavy smoker for decades (2 1/2 - 4 packs of Marlboros a day, depending on stress level) and nothing had worked. But you know, I never did set my mind right on that one.
Set your mind on positive, and treat so-called cravings as 2 year old children wanting an inappropriate item: "No, sweetheart, and really, we're not going to discuss this. Would you like to color?"
For some that potential argument might rear its head frequently (it didn't for me on this particular habit, with vapes, but has on other, very serious ones. Two year olds, who have lousy judgment, can persist plenty. Just repeat the phrase.) It takes @28 days to undo a habit (the studies replicate).
Any physical withdrawal from alkaloids etc, if you believe in that, can be regarded as a bit of flu, rather than a demand for relief.
I was one of those smokers that patted the table for cig and lighter before I even opened my eyes in the morning. Made sure that a fresh batt and cart were there, as I wake in a stupid state of mind.
That was the sweetest morning...
I'm pretty persuaded that "occasionally" smoking makes it much harder, due to the serious behavior-setting power of sporadic reinforcement. But for me, truly, I loved the vapes so much, and vaped whenever I wanted so readily, and a LOT at first (still do, but not so insanely), that my new toy just did all the work for me.
But I'm good at appreciating the incredible power of mindset. It's my job.
What we think = what we experience to a truly incredible degree.
I mean, look what I did yesterday re the Illinois ban-bill. I decided that it was gonna pass, and I got depressed, and I watched everyone declare that they'd go back to analogs if it did, and agreed re myself, and that's my lousy unmindful mindset making and responding to a situation stupidly, and adding the power of that to general malaise.
I had to do a whole routine. Why is it true that I'd go back to analogs?? Do I really need to believe that I HAVE to? That's ridiculous. I decided instead that if somehow these lovely things disappear, I'd be already halfway home, and would joyfully suck snus (or whatever you do with them) and ride this thing all the way home.
And the bill? Look at Utah! I went through the whole agony of experiencing something that hasn't even happened.
Mind is everything. (Almost.)