I smoked for 20 years. I began vaping electronic cigarettes 2 1/2 years ago. I tried nicotine lozenges, snus, and tobacco-free cigarettes. Nothing worked. Then I bought an electronic cigarette from a mall vendor. I smoked for another week before stopping the analog cigarettes for another 2 weeks. Then I got ‘stressed’ out over some trifling situation and began smoking again and I stopped using the electronic cigarette. A year later, after my health had declined to the point I HAD TO STOP smoking, I picked up my electronic cigarette again and used it as well as smoked another week. Then I put the regular cigarettes down for good. I got rid of the 5 unopened packs of regular cigarettes and went exclusively vaping my electronic cigarette. When I began using my electronic cigarette this last time, I was hacking terribly, short winded, and coughing up phlegm all day and most of the night in my sleep. My voice was hoarse and cracked all the time. All of that disappeared TWO DAYS after I gave up smoking and used my electronic cigarette exclusively. I don’t smoke at all. I used to smoke 2 packs of regular cigarettes a day. So for all those people and companies who are ‘bashing’ vaping, I say you are wrong. At least in my case, anyway. I am no longer a SLAVE to tobacco. Vaping is so much less expensive than tobacco smoking is. My health is so much better. I can taste and smell again! It’s great. Vaping works.