To the butt!!!!!!!

My wife and I both have seriously reduced our daily nicotine dose to the point now where she told me this morning that she felt like her insides were crawling out of her fingertips. We have been smoking 1/2 cigarettes at a time so we could go smoke more frequently, even if it was not to the butt. Of all the days of having cut back to quit, today is the worst. We both are at our wits end and are acting strangely. We are fighting about things like a misunderstanding about the channel we are watching on TV or something. This would have happened sooner if we quit "cold turkey" (why is it called "cold turkey"?). My paranoia level is swelling slightly now.