I smoked my first cigarette when I was 8. After I started working at 16, it wasn’t long before I was smoking 1.5 packs per day, a rate I was to maintain with only the most minor fluctuations for the next 31+ years. Then, at 47, while picking up a pack of my regular brand, I noticed the display of disposable ecigs on the counter, and bought one on a whim. I wasn’t looking for an alternative to cigarettes (I still bought my regular brand that night, too), I just wanted to try it. I didn’t know it at the time, but that pack would be one of the last I’d ever buy. A week later, I’d purchased the rechargeable version of that ecig, and when that finally wore out, I upgraded to a refillable ‘personal vaporizer’, so I could sample the dozens (hundreds?) of flavors available, customized with the amount of nicotine I wanted to be using. (I’ve cut my original nicotine strength used by 25% in the past 6 months, my next bottles of ‘ejuice’ will be an additional 25% weaker. By mixing the two in gradually differing proportions, the transition to lowered-nicotine usage is completely unnoticable. I started using ecigs in the first week of November, 2012. I smoked my last cigarette on November 15th, 2012. I don’t miss them At. All. I breathe SO much easier now, I no longer get post-nasal drip if I lay on my back, my senses of taste and smell are so vastly better than they were that even long-time favorite foods taste novel. My car, hair and clothes don’t stink of stale smoke anymore… and as the icing on an already VERY tasty cake, I’ve saved a lot of money! It’s been 190 days or so, I would have smoked about 2,840+ cigarettes and spent over $1066.00. Instead, including equipment and everything I’ve used so far, plus enough ejuice to last me at least two more months, I’ve spent about $350. I wasn’t looking to quit smoking, but I did anyway. Painlessly.