Cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol were always around me for as long as i can remember, due to family members or friends of the family. I started experimenting with all of them at a very young age because the access to it was quite easy. Alcohol never became an addiction for me because of the horrible consequences (Headaches, throwing up) you feel as soon as you’re coming down. But during my middle school and high school years, I was a daily user of marijuana, and cigarettes. I admit, i was pretty addicted to marijuana at the time, but as for cigarettes, i was more of a social smoker. Meaning, if i was not around my friends, i would not smoke nor have any cravings for doing so. However, there was rarely any time where i found myself not around my friends, because we would always hang out after school till the sun went down and of course the weekends as well. Turning 18 granted me access to tobacco products in a guiltless way unlike before, where i would obtain them by stealing cigarettes from older family members. This is when my habit really started. I knew deep down inside that smoking wasn’t a healthy habit and that i needed to quit. Quitting marijuana came with ease when i landed a job that required drug testing, and i was naive enough to think that cigarettes would be a good substitute for it. I was able to quit marijuana, but my cigarette consumption more than quadrupled within a month. Since then, i have been addicted to cigarettes and have tried to go cold turkey countless number of times. I’ve tried patches, gums, and even chewing tobacco, but only lasted a matter of days because those methods were never too appealing to me. The longest i’ve lasted without a cigarette was two weeks due to my root canal surgery. Other than that and the countless number of times i tried to quit only lasting a few days, i carried this daily habit of smoking about a pack a day for almost 8 years. Then, i was introduced to the electric cigarette and have not picked up a single cigarette for 3 months now. Help me fight the devil within me and let me vape at peace.