People love to talk about willpower like it is the magic ingredient, but quitting nicotine is a skill-based process — not a personality test.

Skills can be learned, practiced, and strengthened.

Quitting requires skills like:

  • noticing your triggers

  • interrupting automatic patterns

  • riding out cravings

  • regulating stress in healthier ways

  • choosing a different response

  • grounding yourself during discomfort

  • reframing your thoughts

  • creating new routines that stick

Willpower fades. Skills don’t.

You do not need to be a superhero — you just need to build the tools that make cravings less powerful and your choices more intentional.

Skillpower is what carries people from “trying” to done.

And you are already building it — one page, one insight, one strategy at a time.

The First 72 hours