I had been a smoker for 15 years, started at 14. I had successfully quit cold turkey for 3 years, but 4 years ago I picked it up again and was smoking 1 pack per day. I have been using electronic cigarettes for the past 3 months and couldn’t be happier!! However very frustrated with the way I see these devices are being handled everywhere by governments and public health authorities. I did smoke a pack of cigarette after the first week due to equipment malfunction, but that is all fixed and now just the thought of smoking a cigarette makes my head spin. My stamina is getting way better, my sense of smell and taste have come back like crazy (I am a spicy food enthusiast, and let me tell you when your taste comes back, you might want to dial down the amount of red hot sauce you put on them eggs!) -No more stinky smoke aura around me -Breath better -Not as broke anymore -No more horrible disease infected tongue on cigarette packs to have to look at or some other horrible thing that’s on there making me feel like that’s what I was going to have to go through. So, yeah, overall I guess I could say that this ecig thing is awesome, they have completely turned me off of cigarettes and I am so very thankful I could cry. I am reducing my nicotine level (down to 12 from 18) at my own pace to get to my goal of Vaping because I want to rather than because nicotine wants me to. That is a personal choice, given that nicotine’s dirty secret is dependency and not much more really. And I do intend to keep on vaping at 0mg of nicotine, because I really enjoy blowing tasty vegetable glyceryn vapor. I wish that public health authorities would somehow do real researches on them and be transparent about it.. Not get all defensive and BAN things that they have no transparent research data about. In a perfect world public health officials would take the time to do research about consumer products they feel could pose any public health issues and make reasonable decisions about them in the interest of public health.. Sounds so simple when you say it like that. I hope somebody working in there will have that eureka moment, but things aren’t looking so good. Smoking bad Vaping good.