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For anyone looking to quit, I recommend Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Helped multiple people in my life with addiction

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Another good resource is whyquit.com

They have three books that follow a similar method as Carr's book. All resources available free, in multiple translations:

The original, Never Take Another Puff: https://whyquit.com/joel/index-ebook.html

Freedom From Nicotine, a more modern take, with a lot of data and references: https://whyquit.com/ffn/

Smart Turkey, essentially a condensed, much shorter version of FFN: https://whyquit.com/smart/

It works for smoking, but I don't think it does as well for vaping? You just can't rationalize the addiction the same way because you don't stink, you probably won't get cancer from it, you do enjoy it to some extent, etc.

While the book does focus on smoking, and uses some of these physical aspects of cigarettes specifically as arguments, the main thrust of the book is actually a framework that generalizes pretty well to dealing with any addiction. For example, https://easypeasymethod.org/ is a simple rewrite of Carr's book for dealing with porn addiction.

So as long as you have your own reasons for why you want to quit vaping (and if you're picking up the book, you probably already do) it can still be helpful. The books from whyquit.com I mentioned in a sibling comment mention some vaping-specific arguments, and they're framed as quitting nicotine in general, not just smoking specifically.

Upvoting. I quit smoking many years ago with that book. Cost me like $8.

It felt surreal to quit after 1 last smoke as book promised at the beginning. Hadn't had craving since then.

Recommended to many people. For some it helped for some it didn't though.

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