I picked up smoking when I was 8 years old. I started small with occasionally smoking cigarettes I could take from adults without them knowing and by the time I was 12 I was smoking home rolled cigarettes consistently and within the year I began acquiring packs of filtered cigarettes and was using close to a pack per day. When I was 16 I began working in the food services and having more money my amounts of smoking slowly rose. In 2011 my father past away and I was smoking from 1-2 packs in a day for the next year. In 2012 I began working the graveyard shift for private security and over a mix of boredom and an attempt to remain awake and alert I slowly raised my smoking even more. By 2013 on the regular basis, I was smoking between 2-3.5 packs everyday depending on how occupied I was. I recognized that over all of the 13 years of me smoking I was consistently having lung problems such as bronchitis, pneumonia and consistently feeling short of breath. I decided I would start cutting down the amount I consumed and possibly quit eventually. I started by smoking only 1.5 packs with a small struggle, but with mind over matter I felt more attuned to the small amount. A couple weeks later, I woke up with severe pain in my chest and felt that I could only inhale 1/3 of a full breath and went to the doctors. Doctor told me that I was slightly regaining my sense of feeling in my bronchial area and they were being irritated by themselves and in reaction I was having bronchitis like symptoms. We treated it like regular bronchitis and I made a for sure decision to completely quit to avoid dealing with that repeatedly throughout my life. I had a friend that had already started using e-cigarettes with disposable cartridges and I decided I was going to acquire one of my own. Another friend gave me a green smart living set and a few extra cartridges and I quickly started on them. I kept a few cigarettes in my pocket, but I didnƒ??t use them. I came to the realization quickly that the hardest part of quitting smoking was the psychological want to smoke. I felt that I wasnƒ??t satisfied enough mentally to get away and took advice from my friend to upgrade to a Basic Ego style kit with E-liquids instead of cartridges. I felt a lot better since. I have not touched a cigarette since. My outgrew my ego kit over time and upgraded a little more too using glassomizers and mods. It has been almost 4 months without 1 cigarette. I find that I have regained senses and feel that I do not have the physical restraints I once encountered daily. I am now helping people within peers with advice or I share the equipment I can spare. Observing people going through the same kind of changes I have come to understand that not everyone can use the exact same route that I did and they may need to start with stronger equipment than I did or different nicotine levels, but when it all comes down to it I feel that vaporizing instead is not only less of a health risk, but with motivation and determination it does more than just help in avoiding tobacco use.