This is likely an unpopular question, as tobacco and nicotine use has dropped drastically (as I’ve learned) over the last several years, so this may be downvoted into oblivion.
However based on threads about quitting or limiting (social) media addictions, I know this community can produce some creative strategies to change one’s behavior, dare I say “life hacks”.
Got hooked on vape too for a while. While there's very little risk to it the risk that is there is relatively unknown at this point. I chain vaped for several years. My lungs pre and post vape seem the same (medically) though I'm sure there was inflammatory process occurring. Nothing like smoking though.
Eventually you're going to have to cut the habit entirely and walk away. Honestly, if your dosage is low enough that you're not craving it you're at the perfect place to throw it all away on garbage day. At that point you should be able to differentiate between physical addiction (nicotine) and psychological (having something to puff on). I found, honestly, the psychological aspect was hardest to quit. Nicotine was relatively easy to get off of. The worst part was the first week. It was being reminded constantly of my favorite smoke spots, smoke breaks, bars, etc that was hard. The psychological addiction lasted at least a month before it let up and honestly I failed several (probably a dozen) times due to this. Increasing my exercise helped somewhat but demons come out when your mind is at rest.
If I had one piece of advice before you toss everything spend 1-2 weeks reprogramming your mind. Change where you vape even if it's inconvenient. As I mentioned the worst aspect of quitting was the constant reminder of what I used to do. If you can reprogram yourself in this way you'll save a lot of trouble.
I quit smoking, almost inadvertently this way. I started running not really planning to quit smoking and eventually the physical drain of smoking weighed on me enough that I decided to give it up. It was still horrible to quit but I had exercise to fall back on as a "healthy" habit that kept me distracted enough to deal with quitting. That plus a lot of walks whenever I had a craving.
Ymmv of course. Personally I think cold turkey is the only way once you decide, anything else is lying to yourself.
Expect it to take years to get over it, but it does get better.
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My body was so sore from biking that I didn't even feel the withdrawals!
But I think I was only able to quit smoking because I quit drinking months prior.
Quitting booze and nicotine was probably the best thing I've done for myself as an adult! Highly recommended.
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Vape shops should be able to get you vape juice that is your current mg of nicotine, then help you move down in 3mg decrements until you reach 0mg. Or if you can't get to or stay at 0mg try out patches or gum which is at least easier on the lungs.
That will scare you straight.