I’ve smoked for 15 years now, the last few of them having about 3/4 pack a day, before that I was a pack a day. In the past I’ve tried cold turkey, Chantix, Nicorette gum, all of which really did nothing to offset my desire to smoke. That is until I went the e-cig route. At first I went with a very low end e-cig, and though it did help a bit, I found it a bit lacking. Several months ago I decided to upgrade my setup to hopefully give me an experience more approximate to smoking in the hopes that it would help me in a more significant way. It has. Very substantially. I should say that I do still smoke on occasion, however having the e-cig has eliminated nearly all of my trigger situations. I routinely go 3-5 days without any cigarettes at all. I do still end up returning to analogues when I’ve having a few drinks (the one trigger I can’t seem to shake yet), but otherwise I am smoke free. I also want to stress how effortless this drastic change has been. The other methods I’ve tried did nothing to suppress my triggers, every cup of coffee, or post-meal moment, etc. was a very stressful situation. I’ve experienced nothing like this using an e-cig. It’s been very beneficial to my life and my family that I’ve been able to cut down in this way. Aside from the cost savings, I have more energy and generally feel better. There are hundreds if not thousands of stories like this. I find it to be a great shame that they generally are not given much merit by the our medical and political community, who it seems would rather preach the customary pharmaceutical or nic replacement methods.