I smoked for 23 years. I started using a smoke free alternative e-cigarette on March 27, 2014. I’ve used a hot vapes brand of rechargable e-cigarette for two weeks with replaceable cartomizer, then I started useing a kanger type tank with evod twister battery, and now i use a sigelei type mode with an aspire nautilus tank. When i first started i was using 24 mg strength of e-liquid. For the past month I’ve used 18mg strength of nicotine type electronic cigarette liquid. I am planning on switching to 6mg within a month and then 0mg within 6 months. I also plan within the next 6 months to a year changing the mix to either 100% vegetable glycol strength or 80% strength vegetable glycol mixture. I have been tobacco cigarette free for approximately a month with no withdrawal symptoms. Even when others around me smoke regular tobacco cigarettes, i don’t feel the need to use or ask for use of their products. My e-cigarette works flawlessly to help any peer pressure or need. In the past I’ve tried the patch for 2 months to quit, I tried complete cessation within a program and that worked for 8 months, and then i tried Chantix but ran into an allergic reaction. The positive changes I’ve seen a definately positive quality of life change, I don’t wake up with a cough in the mornings. I don’t have to have a cigarette lit, i can control how long and when i stop at any moment when i vape. I have an easier time accomodating others with my addiction to nicotine. The financial savings that I am now seeing are immeasurable. The negative impacts are that I still have a cost however small, and I still don’t want to do it around my children or others out of being polite so it still separates me from others because they are unwarry of vaping and don’t understand that it truely is a smoking cesation tool and doesn’t cause them any harm.