I began smoking in 2009 at the behest of my now ex-wife. I went from 5 individual analog cigarettes a day to a pack per day to 1.5-2 packs per day in a matter of months. The dissolution of my marriage led me to increase my consumption of traditional cigarettes even further. I began increasing my use to 50-60 individual roll-your-owns a day (equivalent to 2.5-3 packs of commercial cigarettes) in 2012. Previous to this increase, my mother had switched from smoking traditional cigarettes to using gas station cig-a-likes in 2011, breaking her 30 year smoking habit. I had tried these unsuccessfully at first, as they did not satisfy my craving for nicotine, being that I was at the time taking in nicotine to the point of extreme excess and at my initial impression of inconvenience and cost over having to charge my battery multiple times a day and go through 1.5-2 five-packs of pre-filled cartomizers over the course of my day. After my marriage ended, I made the tough decision to move back in with my parents, as my dwelling was not an inhospitable environment for me. I continued to smoke heavily on traditional tobacco products for the first 6 months of having moved back into my parents’ house. After that 6 months, I became involved in the local mixed martial arts scene and it was at that point that I realized that my cardiopulmonary functions were in states of complete destruction. At that point, I decided that for my own sake and the sake of seeing my children grow up, it was time to kick the old habit. I first purchased a convenient starter kit from a vendor based in California on somewhat of an un-researched whim. The product itself was useful and pleasurable, but it was very overpriced for what it truly was. I continued to use this for nearly two months before discovering the wonderful world that is advanced vaping. I purchased a Kanger Evod starter kit from a different USA based vendor and have never looked back. I had been selling myself short by not researching my options in 2011 and discovering that I could, in fact, quit smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes using something as benign as a mixture of propylene glycol, glycerine and nicotine. It has been 5 months today since my last traditional tobacco cigarettes and the benefits are absolutely innumerable. My clinical anxiety is lessened, my mild ADHD is calmed by the therapeutic nature of doing it yourself atomizer rebuilding (not a direct result of USING a personal vaporizer, but a direct result of merely OWNING a personal vaporizer). My mind is less clouded and concentration is easier by virtue of having better metabolism of oxygen in my system. There is absolutely nothing that I would take back about making the switch. It was the third best decision that I have made in all my 28 years, numbers one and two being my two beautiful, healthy sons.