Hello, My name is Bryan, I was a cigarette smoker for 35 years, yes I started when I was 10 years old, young and stupid I know. I mainly started smoking because of friends I knew who were my age or a year older. Over the years I kept feeling that smoking was hurting me, so I had tried to reduce or flat out quit but that was just unbearable, hanging out with friends that still smoked just made things worse. My longest stretch on trying to quit was probably around 10 days, my friends bought me a pack just so I could be more tolerable to hang out with again. Over the last few months that I was smoking, I was waking up coughing and hacking. My lungs just felt like they were on fire. Going out to eat, food just had no flavor, and no matter what my clothes always had a faint smell of cigarette smoke. I had no energy, and with the prices of cigarettes going up, I had no money to spend on anything else that I may require. I needed some kind of change and some other way to quit. Patches and gum did not work for me, I would find myself smoking while using those products. One day in Sept. 2009, I got online to read the days news; a story jumped out at me about electronic cigarettes. My inner skeptic wanted to read more about this product. I would say to myself ??E-cigs? Right! What will they think of next? But the more I read the more I love a good controversy. And this story was about this controversial new product that was gaining a huge support group. Vapers. I started my own research on this product, and into different types of E-juice. I purchased my first e-cigarette on Sept. 9th 2009. Today I have been smoke free since that date, with a couple of times that I have bummed a smoke off a friend, I can truly say that I will never go back to analogs…EVER!!! The taste is horrid and both times it always felt like the very first time I lit up a cigarette…coughing, hacking, face turning all red. I only vape now, I even got my roommate to quit smoking, and he vapes too, and he has passed it on to his family, and they are turning from analogs to vaping. Since I have quit smoking and turned to vaping I have been able to breath much better, foods taste good again, and my clothes don??t smell of old tobacco, and I have more money in my pocket. To me this is the best way for anyone to quit smoking or just reduce the use of tobacco products. Bryan