I started smoking analog cigarettes when I was about 20 years old. Most of my friends smoked and I was a bit of a partier at the time so I smoked, too. At my worst I was smoking almost a full pack of menthol light cigarettes a day, having smoked for about 4-5 years at this point. I always hated the way it smelled so when my boyfriend and I saw the cig-a-likes the gas station sold, we decided to try those. We didn’t stay with those for too long before going back to cigarettes. Then we heard about a vape shop that had opened in our area so we went right on over and both bought kits. I quit analog cigarettes cold turkey in favor of the vape and haven’t looked back for 4 months now. My boyfriend has had a few analogs while out with friends, less than five and I haven’t had any. I can’t even stand the smell wafting off the smokers that come into the vape shop that I now work at. It’s been an amazing and satisfying journey because I know I’m on a much less harmful path now. I can smell, taste and breathe better and I definitely feel like I don’t get cranky and irritable anymore. I’ve weaned myself down to 6mg nicotine e-liquid and in about another month, I’ll be nicotine free! Vaping has changed my life.