I started using herbal (cocoa bean) cigarettes yesterday. They're tobacco free and nicotine free. The reason I got them is because of the crazy ritualistic desire still bothering me. I haven't had a pack of cigs on me since mid July. In that time frame I've consumed 2 real cigarettes. Yes, 2! So I definitely feel I'm done with "actual" cigarettes.
I did, however, miss nicotine.. badly. I don't want to vape though. I find myself way more impulsive on vape. I use it way more often than if I were to smoke.
Taking a nicotine spray product and trying to be satisfied is annoying. I can't help but think about the whole ritual of pulling out a cigarette from the pack. Lighting it. Flicking ash.
So this is the best of a bad situation. Harm reduction. These herbal cigarettes aren't as dangerous, at all, compared to real smokes. No radioactive fertiliser used on the crop, no companies adding 2000 chemicals to them, etc.
And I can limit my use to 5-7 nicotine sprays along with 5-7 herbal smokes.
I'm trying lol. I knew I was struggling not having some sorta vice. No drugs, no drink. I was going nuts. So this is a tiny, but safer, sliver of the past.