Hello, I was a smoker for about 8 years. I was never a heavy smoker, not more then 7 or 8 a day, usually less, unless I was out on the town for the night. I quit a couple of times, once for almost 8 months. I started using my ecig when one of my friends was working where they were being sold. She loaned me one to try and my husband and I got ours the next day. That was the week of Jan 7th 2013. We both just started using them and haven’t gone back to smokes. It was instantaneous. There was a bit of an adjustment period when we missed the other chems you get from cigs. Really all you need is the nicotine, and we got used to it. We started with the eGo c. Hubby still uses that, I have an eGoc twist that I prefer and we have a couple of back up eGo c’s (you can’t just run to the corner store if you lose one!). We both vap at 12mg, and we both have a preference for fruity flavours. I DO NOT like the ciggy flavours or the minty/menthol ones. We started out using hot choc and coffee type flavours, but we became tired of those. Hubby has been loving the Grape for a couple of months now (I think it’s great) and I’m really into Lemonade right now, and then adding some peach, or raspberry to it. I will probably tire of these one day and move along to something else. These options are one of the reasons I think this product is working for me and will continue to work for me. I have never tried using any NRT’s to quit smoking. I actually didn’t have a strong desire to quit, I just tried the product and I liked it. I love not stinking, and I love being smug on the couch in the dead of winter when everyone else bundles up and troops outside, I love having more energy, I love not waking up in the morning with a wheeze, I love when the nicotine and only the nicotine settles around me when I needs it, without having had to light up the smoke that I probably only would have enjoyed the first part of. This is always clean. I also love the $300 my husband and I save combined monthly. I don’t know where that money came from before. Thanks, Kelly