I started smoking when I was 14. All my friends smoked too. We’d go down to the gas station and buy a pack for $.95. It wasn’t as cost prohibitive as today. Since that time I have smoked pretty much non stop. I found I may quit for a month or 6 or even a year, but I would always ask for cigarette even if I had stopped. And stopped was all I did. I couldn’t even bring myself to say I’d quit. Fast forward to my thirties. I tried quitting more times than I can count. I had the most success with nicotine gum, but I found it really just prolonged my prohibition until, for whatever reason, I would buy a pack and then begin cycle started all over again. I am now in my 40s and worry about my long term health even though for all practical purposes I am very healthy other than this habit that on one hand I don’t want, but on the other hand I really enjoy. This past month my wife recommended trying an e-cig. I went online and read some info about other people’s experiences and successes and decided I’d give it a try. Here I am one month later and have been vaping this whole time and haven’t had a single cigarette. The amazing thing for me is I don’t even want a cigarette. I can go out with friends that smoke and I use my ecig and don’t have the slightest desire to light up. Not only that, but my breathing is better, I’m working out and I feel better than I have in a long time. I have been recommending this to all my friends who smoke because it seems to be a life changer. However, I’m very nervous about the perception of ecigs and all the misinformation that is being pushed by multiple media outlets. I can see a lot of unnecessary laws and regulations being levied all due to ignorance and the influence of money that surrounds the big tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Given all this, I am really hopeful that science will win out and people will see the enormous benefits for smokers such as myself. I hope this testimonial will help someone else give ecigs a try and that they will experience first hand the positives that I have already experienced. Good luck.