There really seem to be different ways of quitting. You can quit while remaining addicted, but you can also quit by getting over the addiction. Clearly, you have taken the first path, i.e. are playing on hard mode. I know this path well, but for my final attempt somehow managed to take the second path after 10 years of smoking. It was easy. It continues to be easy. I don't know, but I suspect if I had one cigarette today, I'd be back to a pack a day tomorrow, so in that sense I'm still different to someone who has never smoked in the first place. But I don't have the slightest urge to smoke that first cigarette.

If we could get a clear understanding on how to facilitate this second path, that would truly be helpful to a lot of people.