There are many ways to lower your nicotine intake when you are getting ready to stop smoking. This will lessen the grip that nicotine has on you – or that you think it has – and make the process of quitting smoking a whole lot more pleasant, or rather less unpleasant, than it would have been otherwise.

A tried, tested and true method of smoking less, and thus reducing your nicotine intake, is to switch to a brand of cigarettes you find distasteful. Since you find them gross, you will smoke a lot less of them, while still smoking enough to maintain your nicotine addiction. It is, as they say, an addiction, and no matter how gross you find the new brand of cigarettes you’re smoking, if you keep smoking them for long enough, you will find that you actually enjoy them. I speak here as someone who has been down that road before!

This is why it is important to do the switch to the distasteful brand only a few short weeks before your immovable, fixed quit date. If you switch too long in advance, you will actually start to love the new disgusting cigarettes – that’s a fact, boys and girls! – and you will have switched to something you find gross for no reason.

As with all the recommendations I offer on this website, this way of doing things is not meant to specifically torture you. You have to keep you eyes on the ball and know that you will eventually stop smoking cigarettes, and you’ll be a better person for it. I know that sometimes you are so focused on the tree that it’s difficult to see the forest out there, but stopping smoking cigarettes is the real short, medium or long term goad here, and don’t you forget it!