Vaping doesn't help you with the nicotine addiction per se..
.. but it is GREAT at dealing with the associated habit. The biggest con trick tobacco companies played on their audience was the habit forming via association. The addiction itself takes some 2 weeks to deal with, but the habit is what pulls you back in because habits are stored in the basal ganglia, in what is pretty much a one-way process - consider it a cache of regular occurring processes that's hard to wipe. Every time you land in a situation associated with smoking you'd trigger that habit - it's pretty much the same principle behind alcopops (to get kids early into drinking alcohol), buying Microsoft (OK, maybe not but it was fun to throw it in anyway) or even social media - habits are quite hard lock-ins.
However, whereas it's hard to remove a habit, it's easier to change it into something else. That's why former smokers need a replacement activity like eating carrots, gnawing on pencils - or vaping.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
