I am a 35 year old male who began smoking at age 12 and by the time I was 16 had become a pack-a-day smoker. Like many habitual smokers I knew all the risks and that I should quit, but I loved smoking and failed every attempt to do so. I tried cold turkey and the patch many times. When that didn’t work I tried a switch to snus as a less harmful tobacco product. It helped me cut down on smoking but I never went a day without at least a few cigarettes and eventually went back to my pack-a-day habit. By the time I was 34 I had given up and accepted my smoker for life status. As it happened that was about to change. I stumbled across a YouTube video discussing e-cigarette products and how they worked. Interesting as it was, vaping didn’t seem like the solution to my problem. Despite my skepticism I had some money to burn so I bought a cheap starter kit with an open tank system online. When I received my first e-cigarette it seemed like just a novelty and the thought of quitting smoking for good had never even crossed my mind. That day I smoked my last cigarette, it was March 1st, 2014. As of today I am down to 6 mg. nicotine and still have no desire to smoke. My clothes and car don’t stink, I can run up a flight of stairs without collapsing, and I don’t wheeze and cough when I laugh. If vaping were banned tomorrow I’m not sure if I would go back to smoking. I do know that if I had been discouraged and told that it wouldn’t work or that it was just as bad as tobacco I would have never tried it in the first place. Vaping does work and is far less harmfull than smoking tobacco and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is addicted to cigarettes.