Did you use your coping plan more often, or have more chances to use it?

Define a chance to use the chosen action

Start with one existing practical action, such as stepping outside for a short change of activity during a particular routine transition. Define the occasion when that action could reasonably be used. A day without that transition is different from a day when the transition happened and you chose something else.

Smokefree describes changing activities as one option for managing vape cravings. It does not prescribe an action-to-opportunity score or establish an ideal completion percentage. The small comparison below is an original planning tool, intended to answer whether an arrangement was usable in the situations you observed. It is not a treatment-adherence assessment.

National Cancer Institute — Smokefree.gov: Dealing With Vape Cravings

Use a denominator that matches the action

Consider an invented example: you used an after-work alternative on two of three observed workday transitions in one week and three of six in the next. The second week has more completed actions but a smaller fraction of observed opportunities. Both descriptions can be true. Neither identifies why the difference occurred.

Use the same definition on both sides. Do not count every craving as an opportunity for an action that is only possible after work. If an appointment, weather condition, or another practical constraint made the action unavailable, note that context. Decide in advance how those constraints fit your question instead of changing the denominator to produce a flattering result.

Leave unknown coverage out of a precise claim

If you forgot whether the transition occurred on one day, preserve that uncertainty rather than treating it as either a missed action or a completed one. You can report the known occasions without claiming complete coverage. A short narrative may be more useful than a percentage when the denominator is small or incompletely observed.

Also keep the chosen action separate from vaping observations. Carrying out a planned activity does not prove that no vaping occurred before or afterward. Conversely, vaping later does not erase the factual completion of the activity. A process record and a use record answer different questions and should not be merged into one success badge.

Use the comparison to revise practicality

Ask where the action did not fit: timing, access, another responsibility, or a preference for a different response. Choose one change if the observations suggest a concrete obstacle. More monitoring is unnecessary when a clear logistical problem already answers the question. You can stop collecting opportunity counts once they cease to inform a decision.

Your review note might say: “The action was available on these known occasions, and I chose it on these occasions; coverage is incomplete.” That wording preserves what you learned without making a causal claim. If coping remains difficult, seek suitable support instead of interpreting a personal completion fraction as a clinical score or a prediction of your next attempt.