I smoked for almost 25 years. I tried multiple times and just about every method out there to quit. None of them worked. On the first day of any of them I ended up headed to the nearest 24hr gas station for cigarettes, because I always threw them away thinking this time was it. I even tried a electronic hand held little thing that you programmed and it was supposed to help you step down according to your personal smoking habits. Didn’t work. Then one day a friend of mine mistakenly sent me an email she meant to send to her mother, if I recall correctly it was about the smoking everywhere electronic cigarette. So I googled it and ended up on the (then) only e-cigarette forum. While they had nothing really good to say about that particular e-cigarette, they did have tons of good things to say about them, so I ordered one of the plainer models known as 901. So I started using it only in the house as I smoked outside being the only smoker in the house and before long the only real cigarettes I was smoking were the ones right after meals. Within a week I was down to 3 actual cigarettes a day, I ordered a slightly stronger e-liquid to see if I could kick those too. 3 days after receiving it, I was completely off cigarettes. I kept my last 6 for a couple of more weeks, but didn’t need them. That was 5 years ago on May 9th. I’ve never smoked another. As for the healthwise issues, in a very short time I no longer coughed, I could walk distances again. I didn’t gain any weight (most people I knew that had quit also gained a lot). I slept better. I’ve stepped back the amount of nicotine in the e-cigarette, something you cannot do with real ones. I feel better at 53 than I did at 45. My doctor is very happy with me and he’s even told other patients about it. The electronic cigarette was a Godsend.