I am a 33 year old male who has been analog cigarette free for 4 months now. I began regularly smoking cigarettes at 16 years old after first trying cigarettes at the age of 12 (cigarette regulations were not strong enough to prevent minors at this time). I have my entire life had asthma and at the age of 29 I was diagnosed with a heart problem called SVT (aggravated further by smoking). I have since being diagnosed with SVT, become more concerned with my health and have attempted to quit analogs using patches, nicotine gum and medication including welbutrin and Chantix. Patches, gum and welbutrin did not decrease my urge to smoke by mental or physical means. With welbutrin, I also suffered side affects including depression, suicidal thoughts and upset stomach. With Chantix, I was able to slow down smoking and felt less need of a cigarette. After 2 weeks of beginning Chantix, I became subject of a dangerous side affect which was the inability to stay awake. I placed myself, co-workers, wife children and many other people in danger by performing normal daily functions. I would randomly and uncontrollably fall asleep, even while standing up, while working (which I do manual labor involving powered tools and equipment)and while driving. I first tried an e-cig (BLU) in 2009 to attempt to quit smoking. The concept was great! My physical addiction was satisfied, my hand had something in it, my arm bent upwards towards my face, a device touched my lips, my mouth felt a smoke-like substance as well as a flavor, my throat felt the sting that was similar to smoking and my lungs felt the smoke-like substance as well as the breathing patterns. All of these things listed have become natural to me as a smoker and I feel the need to physically feel this. The drawbacks that prevented BLU from working for me were:1- 1 cartridge was not the same as 2 packs of cigarettes. I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes per day, 1 BLU cart lasted about what I would consider about 10 cigarettes to last. 2- BLU carts are extremely (or were back then) expensive compared to smoking cigarettes. 3- only available to purchase on the internet and waiting out a shipment period, whereas I could go up the street to buy cigarettes. All that said, of course I went straight back to smoking. 4 months ago I learned that there is much more advanced product available to e-cig users than the Blu or similar product style. Stores began to open in my area that I could walk in to buy my products and not have to depend on internet orders and wait out shipment. I purchased a stick style e-cig with a clearomiser kit. I have not smoked a cigarette since this purchase but I did quickly find that the stick style battery did not last my entire work day and the clearomiser would leak a lot. I tried many different flavors and quickly learned that I enjoyed flavors outside of tobacco and menthol, but I also learned that there are many flavors I could not use in that device that did appeal to me. I purchased a Vamo (a larger device known as an APV or MOD) that uses replaceable rechargeable batteries that last very long as well as a glass atomizer that was capable of using any flavor. At this point, I vape mostly beverage flavors, including cola, pepsi and coffee flavors as well as baked good flavors including cake or cinnamon roll flavors as I found that I prefer these over tobacco or menthol flavors. I no longer purchase premade juices from my local store as I make my own juice to decrease costs substantially and to my taste, taste much better than that of premade juices from stores. My flavors consist of 30% PG/70% VG, I use roughly 10% flavoring in my mix and make 18mg/ml. In the past 4 months since I began vaping and quit smoking I can breath better and use my rescue inhaler much less, have longer lasting and deeper breathes, have fewer allergy issues, sleep better, can breath through my nose for the first time memorable in my life, taste how foods are supposed to taste and smell things clearly, don’t smell bad, have much fewer symptoms of SVT and I am no longer concerned with what damage I am doing to my body. If e-cigs flavors were to be banned, I feel that I would be forced either to demise my own methods of obtaining flavorings or cease e-cigs and revert back to analog cigarettes as I do now depend on this physical and mental addiction. I also feel that if nicotine were to be regulated below my preferred strength, I would again be forced to revert back to use of analog cigarettes. I do feel that some form of a regulation is needed: 1- age restriction and strong enforcement against use by minors. 2- product labeling should be informative as to what ingredients are in the mix as well as quantity of nicotine. 3- industry set standards to make juice containers more uniform and child resistant.