I recently changed over from smoking cigarettes to vaping. I have smoked cigarettes since I was 14 years old, and have tried everything to quit since I was 20. I used the gum, cold turkey, the patch, everything. I had a success for about 4 months but I gained almost 30 pounds, I inevitably went back, and right back to the excessive amount I was smoking. At the time I started using the vapor products I was smoking 1.5 packs of Marlboro menthol a day. I would wheeze and cough and be out of breath very often throughout the day. I work a construction based job and am driving a lot throughout the day and would find myself smoking even more because of it. I finally had enough of not being able to breathe and smelling like cigarettes and wheezing and coughing all day. I stopped by my local vape shop and talked to the guys in there and bought a vape and kicked my cigarette habit to the curb. I’m pleased to say that I am cigarette free for a month now and feel great. I already notice I am no longer wheezing and I notice that I am not so short on breathe anymore and am sleeping better and coughing is no longer a painful thing every 15 minutes. I contribute it all to the vapor and helping me breathe better. I find that the difference in flavor has helped tremendously in keeping my interest and I don’t substitute smoking for food and am not gaining any weight this time while quitting and do not have any urges to smoke because I have the vapor. The guys at my local shop started me out at a 6% nicotine and then within two weeks I am already down to 3%. I do plan on going to the 0% in the future but just getting that little bit of nicotine does make a difference for me. I love the fact that I can get the 0% nicotine though because whEn I am with my workers, or out at night with friends and they do to outside to smoke, I can still join and have the social aspect of it but slowly and surely many of them are starting to switch over too. I 100% feel if this is taken away, I will be right back to smoking cigarettes and right back to coughing, wheezing and short of breath which effects my day to day like and also my sleep. To ban these products, in the nation that was founded on freedom and the rights to make our own decisions is absolutely ridiculous in my eyes. I’m a 26 year old citizen that should be able to choose my smoking product, wether it be cigarettes, a vape, or pipe. It shouldn’t be up to anyone else but me, and to take that right away is unamerican in my eyes.