many are not aware of the oral fixation and/or ritual part of the addiction (which not all nicotine users share); no reason to take a pot-shot at the person you are responding to
It wasn't a pot shot. Gum and patches have abysmal success rates, oral fixation or not. For someone to suggest those as a simple alternative to vaping obviously isn't and never was a smoker. And it is a bit personal; others like to tell me what to do and why it's easy. Vaping is about to be regulated out of existence by people who don't give a shit about the ramifications.