I smoked for 26 years. I tried everything to quit. Cold Turkey, nicotine patches, Chatix, nicotine gum. Some times I would make it a few months but always ended up with a pack of cigarettes in my pocket. In 2012 I bought my wife and I a N-Joy. It ended up on in the desk drawer and I was back to smoking. in November of 2013 an e-cig shop opened down the street. My wife and I bought 2 e-go style devices and tried about 15 flavors. She choose a strawberry shortcake flavor and I choose a tobacco. I stopped smoking immediately. I still had a 1/2 pack of cigarettes and a full carton I had just bought. I just didn’t want them any more. My wife stopped smoking withing 3 days. I can breath, I don’t smell like a tire fire, my car doesn’t stink. In the past if I got sick it always hit me in the lungs, I recently had a cold. The duration was shorter and I didn’t cough and hack constantly. It was just a good old traditional cold! I just don’t feel like I’m missing anything with e-cigs. I don’t feel like I’m suffering because I’m not smoking. If my flavor gets old I have multitudes to choose from, I can turn my strength up or down on demand. I can go up or down on the nicotine level. I have the freedom to choose how much I vape. I can even vape one time and not have to worry about finishing it like a cigarette. I have many options to keep me from smoking and for that I am thankful. I have been a non-smoker for 7 months as I write this. I feel better and not one time have I wanted to smoke, in fact I find them offensive. I can smell them in traffic when a driver is smoking a few cars away, I can smell it on my co workers. I can’t believe that used to be me. Vaping has saved my life. My mother has COPD, I wish this had been around 30 years ago. Instead I will watch her pay with her life for the cigarettes she struggled to give up for so many years.