I am 52 yrs old and have been smoking tobacco cigarettes since I was 15 yoa. (that’s 38 years)I am an A personality and super hyper! I have attempted to quit smoking too many times to count. I have used patches, medication, nicotine gum and none of them worked. I have one child and quit for the first tri-mester, but smoked the rest of my pregnancy. My daughter has A.D.D, which may or may not have been caused by smoking. When I was growing up smoking was glamorized! The movie stars all smoked, cigarettes were advertised on TV, billboards, race cars and No information was given about how harmful they were. I am attending a wedding in October 2013 that is at an outdoor community center of 28 acres. I went to their website and discovered the entire area (indoor & outdoor) is non smoking! I knew that I would not be able to stay there for longer than an hour if I couldn’t smoke! I researched on line and discovered e-cigarettes and read all the reviews. I decided to order it to get me through that wedding. I HAD NO INTENTION OF QUITTING SMOKING. I received my ecigs on September 5, 2013 and charged the battery. I tried it out and honestly did not have much hope that it would actually replace the real thing. You see, I enjoy smoking i.e., holding the cigarette in my hand, the smoke that is expelled from my mouth and the calm it brings to me. I am an educated woman and know how bad for me smoking is (especially since we found out about the rat poison & other 3,000+ chemicals that are allowed by the FDA in cigarettes.) But those ingredients have only been released in the last few years AFTER they caused addiction. I have not smoked a tobacco cigarette in 3 weeks and have not wanted to! I was a 2-3 pack per day smoker. You still get the process of smoking without the harmful chemicals. With all of the other cessation methods I have tried they still left you feeling like you were missing something. I feel better. I can smell things. I can taste food. I don’t smell like an ashtray. My house smells good! I only got the ecig for that wedding at the non smoking property and had no intention of quitting tobacco. These ecigs really work! You still have the process of smoking (holding it in your hand, expelling vapor, etc)but none of the dangerous chemicals! I would have never believed anything could replace the tobacco cigs, I was wrong! Now it seems these are causing the big tobacco companies to lose smokers and they are attempting to have ecigs regulated and/or banned! So I guess our health was never a concern to the FDA or our government, only the amount of revenue they are losing! Really!?