I started smoking when I was 15. I smoked for almost 15 years before I quit with my husband. I continued to smoke here and there, a cigarette at the bar, maybe we would split a pack to celebrate an anniversary or birthday. Fast forward to the birth of our first child. Something in me almost immediately started craving a cigarette almost as soon as he was born. I smoked a lot over the next five months before I gave in and started smoking full time again. I knew it couldn’t go on forever, I had an infant son, but smoking helped me to feel sane during has infanthood and allowed me to enjoy him more because I was calmer. It has always been about the routine of smoking to me. The built in 5 minute break from whatever you are doing, the inhaling and exhaling. I never smoked more than a pack and a half a week, even at my worst. When I tried electronic cigarettes (an Ego kit from a local store), I was eventually able to stop smoking entirely and even to halve my nicotine strength from 24mg to 12mg. I intend to drop all the way to 0mg and be able to enjoy the simple pleasure of vaping with nearly none of the risk. My son won’t risk losing his mother to cigarette caused cancer. My husband won’t risk losing his wife. Tell me that isn’t a compelling reason to embrace electronic cigarettes.