Understanding your relationship with smoking or vaping

The more you understand how tobacco or vaping fits into your daily life, the easier it is to:

Spot your patterns and triggers.
Build a quit plan that feels realistic.
Decide if quit aids or nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) could help.

The Fagerström Test

This short, science-backed quiz helps you understand how much your body depends on smoking or vaping. It takes about 1 minute and gives you insights to guide your next step, whatever that looks like for you.

There are 6 short questions like this. Each one helps you learn a little more about how smoking or vaping fits into your day. Just answer honestly. There’s no right or wrong.

Choose one:

Fagerström Test

E-cigarette Fagerström Test

1. How soon after waking do you smoke or vape?

Within 5 minutes

6-30 minutes

31-60 minutes

After 60 minutes

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Our calculator shows you:

What you spend now.
How much you could save by cutting back or quitting.

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Understanding your relationship with smoking or vaping

The Fagerström Test

Choose one:

1. How soon after waking do you smoke or vape?

2. Do you find it difficult to refrain from smoking in places where it is forbidden?

3. Which cigarette would you hate most to give up?

4. How many cigarettes a day do you smoke?

5. Do you smoke more frequently during the first hours after waking than during the rest of the day?

6. Do you smoke even if you are so ill that you are in bed most of the day?

0-2 = low dependence

3-4 = low to moderate dependence

5-7 = moderate dependence

8-10 = high dependence

1. How many times per day do you usually use your electronic cigarette?

2. Do you find it difficult to refrain from vaping in places where it is forbidden (e.g. in church, at the library, in the cinema)?

3. When would you hate most to give up e-cigarette use?

4. On days that you can use your electronic cigarette freely, how soon after you wake up do you first use your electronic cigarette?

5. Do you use your e-cigarette more frequently during the first two hours of the day than during the rest of the day?

6. Do you use your e-cigarette when you are so ill that you are in bed most of the day?

0–2 = Low dependence

3–4 = Low to moderate dependence

5–7 = Moderate dependence

8+ = High dependence

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