I started smoking at 12, I of course got in trouble and because of the trouble I got into I tried to quit cold Turkey for several years after with no success, later at 16 I asked my doctor to prescribe me a pill to help me quit again, I was told no because I was a minor and that I would have to do it cold turkey I didn’t even bother to try I had already failed so many times that I knew I couldn’t quit cold turkey. I am now an adult and about 6 years ago I tried the nicotine lozenges that lasted about 10 seconds I put in my mouth and instantly my tongue went tingly and spit it out and again didn’t bother for a few more years. About 4 years ago they added the flame retardant to the cigarettes and everyone in the town I lived got a flu going around myself included well as you would expect everyone got better and I did as well with the exception on the runny nose i soon realized I had developed an allergy to the flame retardant and that so long as I smoked it wouldn’t stop I lived on sudifed and Benadryl for years miserable then they came out with chantix and I got some hope I was hearing such great things about how well it worked so I went and got some two weeks in when I wasn’t suppose to even crave them not only was I craving them I was still smoking and since that was even more of a health risk I quit the chantix with again another failure since the chantix last year I have found out that I have graves disease and that it’s usually caused by smoking I was told three months ago that if I didn’t quit smoking I would loose my eyes as to I am a line cook and just turned 31 that was outright not an option my sister and a few co workers were using the e-cig and it was helping so I went to the local vape shop and got myself set up with one , the first week I smoked half a pack the second week I was down to 3 at the begging of the week by the end of the week I was down to 2 and not even wanting the 2 I was smoking by the begging of week 3 I wanted 0 and smoked 0 I am now 100% ciggarette free I started vaping at 18 mg I am now down to 12 mg nicotine and looking forward to going to 6 mg and then 0 mg I am asking that my only win with the loosing such a disabling nasty habit not be taken I can’t afford to loose my battle when I’ve just started to beat it.