I smoked cigarettes/cigars for well over 10 years before I switched over to electronic cigarettes. I tried everything from the gum, patches, lozenges, snus and chantix and nothing worked. I smoked two packs of Marlboro reds a day and when using these products I just seemed to smoke more and more. I’ve been using an e-cig/e-cig mods for about 7 months now. It took me about a month and a half of using them before I quit smoking all together. When I started to use e-cigs I did notice a significant decrease in my smoking right off the bat. It takes some getting used to at first but man were the benefits very much worth it. I know use strictly mods and have been without an analog (cigarette) for almost 6 months. At first I started off with a very high nicotine level at 36mg. Slowly I have been able to knock myself down and I’m currently using about 18mg and I’m going to be going down to about 12mg before long. I don’t intend to every quit vaping but eventually ween myself to a 0mg nicotine level. I have noticed that my sense of smell and taste has started to come back and that by itself is amazing for me. I almost get physically ill from the smell of cigarette smoke now and to be honest that makes me happy. My appetite has also returned. I used to only eat about once a day, mostly because I couldn’t taste/smell the food and you never know how much you miss it until you don’t have it and it returns. I’m a very big advocate of e-cigs/e-cig mods and always will be. They have helped my life tremendously and I will always try and help anyone that wants to quit smoking, anyway I can.