You don't have to quit vaping today. Just puff less than yesterday.
CutPuff gives you a single puff limit for today, then lowers it week by week until you reach the quit date you chose. When a craving turns up, there's a breathing exercise that paces you through it.
How the vaping taper works
Tap any row to see that screen.
What cutting down on vaping saves you
Move the sliders to match your own habit and you'll see where a taper lands you inside a year. It's the same schedule the app builds once you're set up.
If you follow the plan exactly
This assumes you stay under the limit and stop restocking at your old rate, so treat it as a rough guide rather than a promise.
Free tools and guides
- Vape taper planner
Pick how many puffs you take now and how fast you want to cut down. You'll get a daily limit for every week until your quit date.
- Nicotine calculator
Work out how much nicotine is in your vape liquid and how much that is a day. See it next to the nicotine content of cigarettes, as an estimate with the method shown.
- How to quit vaping: a step-by-step taper plan
To quit vaping, either stop on a set day or cut down gradually to a quit date, which the NHS describes as one way to make quitting easier. Start by counting what you vape on a few normal days, choose a pace, and lower your daily limit each week.
- How much nicotine is in a cigarette vs a vape?
A cigarette's tobacco holds about 8 to 15mg of nicotine, but a smoker absorbs only about 1mg of it. A vape's nicotine content is its liquid volume times its strength, and how much of that you absorb varies with your device and how you puff.
- Nicotine withdrawal timeline: what to expect
Official health sources say nicotine withdrawal usually starts within a few hours to two days of your last use and is strongest in the first week. Most say symptoms fade within a few weeks, though the NHS says some people feel them for a few months.
When a vaping craving hits
Cravings usually pass in a few minutes, which is what this is for. Tapping Craving in CutPuff opens a paced breathing exercise like this one. You can try it right here.
Ten breaths, about a minute.
Setting up your taper plan
Set your baseline
Tell CutPuff roughly how much you vape in an ordinary day. That number is what everything else gets measured against.
Hit today's number
Your limit falls each week without you having to do anything. The ring on the home screen shows what's left, so today's number is the only one you need.
Land your quit date
Go over and the day still counts as logged. If the pace turns out to be too fast, push the date back and the plan rebuilds itself.
Questions about cutting down on vaping
No. You start at roughly your current pace, and the limit comes down a notch each week. The first few days are meant to feel easy.
The day still counts as logged, and tomorrow's limit doesn't move. Your plan is fixed when you set it, so one heavy day never reshapes it. You log it and keep going.
Neither one wins for everybody. Plenty of people stop outright and there's good support for doing it that way. CutPuff is built for the people who've tried that and found it didn't hold. If you're weighing it up, your doctor or a local quit service is a better guide than we are.
There isn't a normal, and there's no number that's fine to settle at. Devices and habits vary far too much for an average to mean anything. What matters is your own starting point, which is why setup asks what an ordinary day looks like for you and works down from there.
Sessions make it quicker. Open one when you start, tap per puff, then save it. If you miss a stretch you can fill it in from the diary afterwards.
CutPuff is on the App Store
Free to download on iPhone, with a free trial when you start. Android is still in build. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it lands.
CutPuff is a subscription through the App Store, and a free trial is available when you start.