Trying to quit after 19 years.

[Alan Selk]

20. Wrong in every way

When a smoker switches to a clean source of nicotine they eliminate about 99% of the harm caused by smoking. It's the smoke that kills, not nicotine and not tobacco (as the numerous studies on smokeless tobacco have shown, contrary to common myth). Switching to vaping or low TSNA smokeless tobacco is not just somewhat less harmful then smoking as you have said, but several orders of magnitude less harmful then inhaling smoke. Trivializing the amount of harm reduction caused by switching moves the issue from science into propaganda and ideology.

You appear to be more concerned with having a dependency then you are about health and avoiding disease. I am guessing you would be comfortable marching in the temperance movement in the early part of the last century as your last statement in this thread about being surprised it is still legal shows.