As it turns out, one of the most effective ways of breaking nicotine's hold is to take it in another form. Statistics reveal that people who use nicotine patches, or gum are twice as likely to quit successfully as those who try to go cold turkey. Bittouin's own work backs this up. The whole ritual of smoking is almost eliminated when you give them nicotine in another form. The reason nicotine replacement therapies work is to do with the way they get the drug into the body.
Smoking speeds it to the brain in a series of peaks that are deeply satisfying.
You get this slow slow effect. And I gather that the hit effect of any drug of addiction has a really empowering impact on the user. The faster the drug works, the better the impact. And the better the impact, the more addictive the substance. So you give the same substance slowly and it doesn't have the same sort of concomative impact.