I was a cigarette smoker for 18 years, since I was fourteen years old, and like many I tried to quit and succeeded many times but always returned to using tobacco. It wasn’t until April 20th of 2013 that I decided I had had enough. I quit cold-turkey that morning and did well for nearly two weeks. On my hour long commute to work one day I endured one of the worst craving attacks I had ever experienced. When I got to work I went online to seek out an alternative that would help me not to return to smoking cigarettes. It was during this research that I stumbled onto a forum for electronic cigarette users. As I encountered more electronic cigarette users and retailers I became interested in trying it as an alternative, in order to help me never use tobacco again. More experienced electronic cigarette users pointed me in the right direction to find retailers who sold electronic cigarette devices and eliquids that were some of the most trusted in the industry. It was important to me to understand what I was going to be putting into my body, something that I never could do with cigarettes. I found American manufacturers of eliquid who proudly displayed the ingredients of their product, and the ratios of those ingredients, on their packaging. The manufacturers that I settled on ranged in size, some small businesses and some large, but all had been researched by many electronic cigarette safety advocates and received positive reviews of their product