I smoked my first cigarette the summer of 1967. I was 13 and quite proud of myself. Over the years I worked my way up to three packs a day then drifted back down to one. I tried Zyban once. It was okay. It took away the craving but not the habit. Tried the patch. That was a trip to Zombie-Land. I didn’t make it a day without a cigarette either time. That was 20 years ago and I haven’t tried to quit since–there just comes a time when you know it ain’t ever gonna happen, you know? Then in mid-December last year while picking up my bi-weekly carton of cigarettes I picked up an e-cigarette, just for kicks. My kit arrived on December 31, 2012, and that was that. It is glorious being smoke-free. One day I was a life-long smoker, the next I wasn’t. It was painless and immediate. I will never smoke another cigarette again. Ever. Now I’m just a nicotine addict (IMO the most insidious addiction on the planet), and I can live with that. E-cigarettes are a miracle, in every sense of that word. Laurie Gelazin, Farmington MI