Hi Marti, congratulations on your quit.. your doing great!. :D . as for your mom... you said she's gone from 40 a day down to 1-4 a day... i was a "step down" smoker too... i did it systematically and with the lowest nicotine cigg i could buy in my little town AND with a lot of support and encouragement from the wonderful people here ... i did that till i got down to one just before bed and the next day was my quit day.... it might be your mom needs the same thing to quit - please understand,i'm not trying to speak for her...but here's the web site i followed http://quit-smoking-advisor.com/03-Natural-Methods/quit-smoking-gradually.html ... again. not trying to speak for your mom, just trying to help based on my own experience. :)