Interesting. I found the opposite. I was never very good at moderating. Complete cold turkey removes the question from the table. It might suck, but at least you aren’t in a constant battle with yourself over whether you can have a cabarets now, or should wait. Is one more too many? Am I no longer smoking moderately but addictive? I found it was way too easy to slide down the slope on all that. Getting through the day without smoking meant holding fast 1000 times, and relapsing just meant giving in once. I could always talk myself into why a cigarette eas okay this time, why I deserved it, how I’d been doing so well…

Cold turkey just shuts all that off and I could move forward.

Do what works for you. Just make sure it is actually working and not just giving you the illusion of that.