I am a 43 year old male that unfortunately started smiking cigarettes when I was 13. When I entered my 20’s I started displaying classic symptoms of COPD. I was coughing up blood, wheezing, had chest pains and could not walk more than a flight of stairs without getting winded. Over the next 5 years I tried quitting using the patch, hypnosis, cold turkey, chew and Chantix. None of them worked any longer than a few weeks. In 2002 my doctor told me my cholesterol was 380, my blood pressure was 190 over 90 and I had been admitted into the hospital for 13 days with Pnuemonia. The entire stay every nurse & doctor pleaded with me to quit. But the strangle hold cigarettes had on me was far too tight. I had given into the fact that cigs were likely going to kill me. Even though I desperately wanted to give them up I just could not forsee myself doing so. Last Thanksgiving I was at my parents with my entire family. After a feast I went outside for my after dinner cig. My brother (another 20+ year 2 pack per day smoker) came out and started puffing away on an APV (A REO Grand). Fascinated by what he was doing I started to ask him questions about it. He explained that he had not smoked a cigarette in 6 months. With a lit cigarette in my hand I asked to try his. 1 vape was all it took! I was amazed how nice it was. Long story short…That night I ordered my own and on November 30 2012 I smoked my last cigarette. It’s been 8 months since I quit and I have not though about or craved a cigarette in any way. A 2 pack per day smoker, slowly killing himself gave up cigs completely just like that thanks to vaping!! My cholesterol is now 180 (still a little high but I eat like I was an 18 year old still) My blood pressure just yesterday at the doctor was 130 over 60!!!!!! I can breath freely, I have no more chest pains and my wife & I walk 6 miles every night after work. I feel like a new man with a 2nd chance at life!! I owe it all to e cigs!!