I hope you'll make good decisions for yourself sweetichick.
It makes absolutely sense not to smoke - maybe you can get some patches, or get someone to get them for you?
As for the tapering, it's not my thing, but thats pretty much the standard advice in the UK.
I hope you'll keep going down targeting to an eventual zero.
The idea that you can't do both these things is your AV talking.
Ignore it
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