I was smoking for a whole six years. I started young, at age 13, and within a year was smoking close to a pack a day, and after two years I was definitely at a pack a day. I eventually started to notice the normal horrible side effects from smoking. Waking up with a cough, smelling horrible, just generally being run down and tired all the time. It took six years for me to even try to quit, and I stopped pretty successfully for nine months, cold turkey. It was after a string of relapses I picked up the pack again and began smoking. After about a month of me smoking again I was starting to feel all the negative side effects and decided something had to be done. I tried picking up a cigarette sized electronic cigarette at a gas station, and ever since then it has been history. Within 24 hours, I stopped smoking and only vaped. It was incredible how fast the change happened for me. With the first few drags I knew this was going to change how I looked at smoking. Within a month after trying giving vaping a try, I already had many flavors of juice and different brands of vaping accessories. It has been over a year that I have been vaping and I couldn’t be any happier. I would never even THINK of picking up a cigarette again. The smell… the taste… NO THANK YOU. I’ve had a few over the past year only when I’m around friends at a party, and they couldn’t turn me off from smoking anymore if they tried. I deeply regret even taking a single inhale off of one cigarette whenever I do. Vaping has turned smoking back into that gross nasty habit it was before I started smoking. The benefits that I gain from vaping are immense. My clothes don’t smell horrible, and I’m not run down constantly. I have energy to do whatever I want, including exercise. I don’t wake up in the morning anymore coughing for thirty minutes. My teeth aren’t stained, and it eliminates every single problem that smoking ever brought to me. It improves my quality of life and makes nicotine a much more manageable habit. I can go hours without vaping and not even think about it. It used to be hard for me to go thirty minutes without a cigarette.