I began smoking on occasion when I was 12 years old. By the time I turned 16 I was an everyday smoker. By 18 I was a pack a day smoker. I became pregnant when I was 18 and although I cut back, I never could completely quit. In my 2nd pregnancy at age 19, I cut down to just 4 cigarettes a day, still my daughter was born with low birth weight and she suffers with acid reflux to this day because of the challenges to her health from my smoking while pregnant. I decided then and there that I would die a smoker. If I couldn’t quit for my children while I carried them I didn’t deserve to quit. I had a 3rd daughter when I was 25 and honestly never really was able to cut back much under a pack a day. She was also born with slightly low birth weight and suffers with adhd. Over the years I fluctuated between 1 and 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Today I am 38 years old. Today I am 44 days without a cigarette, thanks to electronic cigarettes. I tried wellbutrin, chantix and nicotine patches over the years. Some worked for a few days, but I always went back to my cigarettes. A few months ago a friend of mine got an electronic cigarette and as I saw him weighn off and eventually quit analogs I began to think I could give it a try. On may 8th I went to my local smoke shop and bought an ego starter kit. I haven’t had a single cigarette since. I still have my last 2 packs sitting on my dresser, never opened. I feel like I should give them to someone just to not waste the money, but then again I don’t really want to help any smoker to keep smoking when there is a much better option. Oh and by the way, my husband also quit at the same time I did, my best friend and her husband quit a week later and my 2 older daughters who had taken up the habit they had always seen me do, they both quit in the last 2 weeks when I gave each of them an ego starter kit of their own. I smoked for over 20 years. NOTHING else helped me quit smoking until electronic cigarettes. It may not be a perfect solution, but it is a million times better than what I was doing.