I quit cold turkey about 16 years ago. At one point, I was up to 3 packs a day but got down to a about 2 when I had enough. The cost was one factor, it just breached $1.25/pack at the time (when I was a teen, I got them 3/$1 at a local gas station). The major factor was I was tired of the coughing fits when I woke up in the morning.
I was chewing on plastic coffee stirrers for about 3 months till the taste of plastic started to gag me.
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Her issue was also the hand-to-mouth deal. She got a hold of some fake cigarettes. It's just a plastic cigarette, basically. She sent me one, swearing if she didn't have that, she'd still be smoking.
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I had the same problem only I substituted a pen (one with a cap, never a clicky pen). I still always have a pen nearby. Not so much the hand-to-mouth issue, but just something to do with my hands. When I smoked, I was always "playing" with the cigarette. Never bothered to try and stop doing that till recently as my co-workers like to rib me about it occasionally. Never noticed how bad it was till they started pointing it out to me.
Good luck with the quitting.