Everyone has something they are proud of, just the same, they have something they arent proud of.. Since I was 15, I have smoked. Easy to start, hard as heck to quit. In my years, I have quit 3 times.. when I was pregnant, after my mother died of cancer, and in 2002 because I wanted to change my lifestyle. As bad as I wanted to quit and stay quit.. it was HARD, and I always went back, even after I quit once using the nicotine patch, cold turkey twice. As a smoker, I hate the taste, I hate the smell, I hate they way it makes you feel, but yet I craved it. Then my bestie gave me this little electronic device – a vapor cig..she totally quit smoking by using it.. it took some time, because I struggled getting the right nicotine level for me, but I managed to 100% make the switch and have not had an actual cigarette since Feb 2013 with no intention or craving to go back. (I have put on some of the quit smoking weight, but hey.. It cant all be fields of roses without a little work). I adjusted my diet and it is helping prevent the weight from piling on as it has all the other times i quit. My little e-cig calendar tells me today I have been cig free for 162 days, would have smoked 3240 real cigarettes, and it would have cost me 939.60 to buy them. I started out at 36mg of nicotine in my vapor, I am down to between 4 & 0 mg. The thought crossed my mind to go back to analogs, but only because of the weight I put on over the past 5 mo’s since switching.. but the thought of going back, the smell, the taste,the toxins… made me try a healthier diet and exercise instead. It has helped, and I never want to go back to analogs.. I am actually finding myself not using my e-cig as often, very little cravings for it.. but although I am borderline weaned from the entire process, I will never give up 100% on my e-cig.. because I know it will be there ( maybe with ZERO nicotine) but it will be there should I ever have a weak moment. I never want to put an analog to these lips again~