A non-smoker for 390 days (who's counting?);

1. Reduce your smoking to less than 8 cigarettes a day.
2. Then just stop "cold turkey."
3. Drink cranberry juice. (Helps eliminate nicotine from your body.)
4. Just suffer the nicotine fits they will decrease radically after 2 or 3 weeks.
5. I have a hand spring loaded grip to squeeze and practice deep breathing when I have a nicotine fit.
6. After a year I still have nicotine fits ? I just deal with them.

I have PAD (peripheral artery disease), clots in my lower leg arteries this is 10 times more likely in adult male smokers over 45 years old. PAD can cause gangrene in the legs and consequential amputation of the legs. Do you need nicotine that bad or prefer that you have legs? Simple choice ...

e-cigarettes inject nicotine into your body ? nicotine narrows the lumen (diameter) of your arteries, hardens the arteries, increases the likleihood of clots and increases blood pressure. My systolic blood pressure decreased 15 points after stopping smoking (systolic/diastolic ex:120/70.)