I’ve been smoking since I was 15 years old. I smoked every day, and by the time I found vaping I was up to a pack and a half of cigarettes a day. At 33 years old I was waking up coughing up crap, having problems with asthma – and my grandmother was dying of oral cancer that was probably related to smoking. I had tried to quit many times – 4 times it stuck for several weeks to months, but my partner is a smoker and it just was too hard to see it and smell it and be around it all the time. The truth is… I like smoking. I STILL like smoking. It’s not a habit that I hate – but I know it’s horribly unhealthy, and carries a lot of long-term risks. So being around something that I enjoyed while denying it to myself became too much and I would go back to smoking. A friend of mine suggested e-cigarettes. I tried them. At first, I got one of those little cheap ones that are the size and shape of a cigarette but are refillable with juice. They didn’t give a very good hit or very much vapor, and the flavor was kind of weak – and I was getting nauseated when I used them. So after a couple weeks I gave up and went back to smoking. My friend asked about it, and I told her why I stopped using them… and she introduced me to a different kind of PV – they’re bigger, heavier and use a different delivery method. And she told me why I was nauseated – my nicotine level was way too high. I dropped down to a 6 mg level of nicotine (from 18) and was no longer nauseated. I also got a bunch of really good flavors that weren’t at all like tobacco, and that helped too. When I use the e-cig, I smoke a lot less. Down to three or four cigarettes a day – a 90% reduction. I also really like vaping for what it is, something different than smoking altogether. I like the variety of flavors and the fact that I am continuing to reduce my nicotine level – and eventually I’ll hit zero nicotine, and probably keep vaping because I like it. I don’t wake up coughing up a bunch of crap anymore, and there have been entire days where I just forget to smoke a real cigarette. I don’t NEED them anymore – but I love my e-cig.