My husband and I were both cigarette smokers. I smoked from age 15 to 40. My husband smoked from age 19 to 55. I finally quit cold turkey on my 40th birthday and stayed away from cigarettes for four straight years. Stress and other circumstances, including the fact that my husband never quit, I started back at age 45. My health and my husband’s health was slowly getting worse. No stamina or energy, morning cough, susceptible to all types of upper respiratory infections and breathless after a short walk. Three years ago, on a visit to my sister in Alabama, we discovered that my sister and step mother (who was a two pack a day smoker) had converted to vaping on e-cigs. We were intrigued. My husband decided to give it a try. I told him that if he (a pack and a half a day smoker) could give up cigarettes for the e-cig for a month, I would convert as well. Three years later, neither of us has picked up another cigarette. We wouldn’t even think about it. The great thing about vaping vs. cigarettes for us is that it only takes one or two puffs an hour gives us the nicotine we need to satisfy our craving, vs. smoking an entire cigarette every hour or so. There is no smell, no ashes, no butts thrown out the car window, no burned holes in clothes or car seats. It has completely changed our lives. The amount of money spent per year on smoking went from about $3,600 on cigarettes to approx. $400. We have both been able to start and continue on an exercise and diet program that has improved our health immensely! We are not out of breath, our chronic illness has all but gone away and best of all, we’ve not had to suffer the withdrawals from nicotine or the failure we have ultimately had with trying to quit traditional cigarettes. Although the long-term implications are yet to be discovered, at this time, we feel that we have improved our lives for the greater good all because of e-cigs. All of my cigarette smoking friends have converted to e-cigs and have never even given thought to going back to cigarettes. If the e-cigs are regulated to the point of hassle . . . you will see people going back to cigarettes and the already proven deaths & illness that come with them!