I started smoking at 17 and have finally managed to quit after 28 years. I have Type II diabetes and in Dec. 2012 I lost a toe (largely due to the complications from my diabetes, which per my doctors was made a few hundred percent worse by being a pack-and-a-half a day smoker!) I had to stop smoking while in hospital and bought a Blu e-cig starter kit. It definitely got me through the hospital visit but I went back to regular smokes a couple week later. The cig-a-like was good but not quite enough. Thankfully I went online to both ECF and the ECR group on Reddit and got a crash course on the full variety of personal vaping devices available. In May I picked up an Ego stater kit and dumped my analogs entirely. I am 7 weeks along and had some heinous challenges along the way — I was down-sized after 4 years w/a company and my Mom died just three days later. That’s the ultimate proof for me for electronic cigarettes — I’ve had absolutely no urge to go back. I tried in the last 28 years to quit on many occasions .. cold turkey a few times and both Chantix and the patch, but none of those could keep me away from real cigarettes. The first ‘crisis’ in the real world and I was right back to them again. This has actually worked absurdly well! I’ve even begun reaping the benefits, health wise, already! I can smell and taste foods/drinks again. I no longer reek of stale cigarette smoke, and my DR is pretty amazed at how quickly things have turned around on the health side of things. E-Cigarettes have made a huge impact on me. They are affordable, pleasurable and most important, they work!