I starting using an electronic cigarette four years ago as a way to stop smoking. About one year later, my father had a stroke that was related to his 56 years of smoking and I had to take over his finances. He had already been in the beginning stages of Dementia and the stroke only made it worse. He had been required to use a CPAP at night while he slept and he had to carry an oxygen tank wherever he went due to his COPD brought on by cigarettes. I told him that I hadn’t touched a cigarette since the very day I bought my electronic cigarette and that I was willing to buy him a starter kit, but I wasn’t going to purchase any cigarettes for him anymore. He became very irate, informed me that I won’t tell him what he can and can’t spend his money on, and that he had been smoking for over 50 years and he wasn’t going to quit. So I listened to what he had to say . . . and then I bought him an electronic cigarette starter kit anyway. Needless to say, it’s been two and a half years and he hasn’t touched a cigarette since the day I gave him his electronic cigarette. He no longer has to carry an oxygen tank with him and his CPAP has been collecting dust in the closet. Electronic cigarettes have given me back a healthier father that will live many more years than he would have had he not began using them. My life has been extended and I have way more energy these days to play with my one year old son. My wife has regained years back. My family members have regained years. Friends have regained years. And all thanks to electronic cigarettes. I’m healthier and in better shape now than I have been in over 20 years. I’ve watched several family members die due to smoking cigarettes and cigars. My father almost died from cigarettes. My wife and I would have ultimately met the same fate as well. And now, because of electronic cigarettes, all those possibilities are extinct now. I don’t have to fall to the same fate that my family members did and my son doesn’t have to fear that he’ll witness the same horrors I had to.