I was a full on smoker since around the age of 17. I smoked for almost 7 and was smoking a pack and a half a day when I learned about ecigarettes. I tried a disposable and it was.. okay. So I would puff that sometimes to smoke a few less real cigarettes and at this point I wanted to move more to vaporizing so I got the blu ecig starter kit. I had this for about a week but could not quit as all cigalikes seem to not produce a good vapor/flavor. It was after about a week of still smoking around a pack a day (sometimes a little less) and using BLU that I saw a friend I had not seen in a few years as he had been away. as soon as I walked in his whole family, mom dad, brother and himself had nice personal vaporizers with separate tanks to fill their own liquids. I tried one puff off of my friends and was blown away at how much more satisfying this was. That same day I found a local ecig shop (my friend brought me) and I picked up my first personal vaporizer kit with a separate 1300 mah ego style battery and a tank to go with it. (a starter kit) After two days of my purchase I had smoked 1 cigarette. after two weeks I had only smoked 3 cigarettes since my purchase. The flavor grape was very helpful to me personally as it didn’t remind me of tobacco and it was something completely different seemingly and I was starting to just feel better. As after switching I noticed tobacco gives you an undesirable suppressed feeling in the nerves along w/ the nicotine fix which ecigs do not. So after a couple of weeks of having a quality Personal Vaporizer I was completely smoke free, it was crazy to me how great this seemed, my family was much more happy as my mother who I ride to work with and we go to lunch together truly hated the smell of cigarettes and would sometimes pull her shirt over her face because she got a disgusted feel from them, I hated to force this upon her so I kept them away as much as possible. Now that I have been vaporizing for 7 months without a cigarette I feel great! I can have the windows rolled up in my vehicle on cold days and use my PV and my mom doesn’t even get bothered the slightest which is massive compared to how cigarette smoke irritated her. I am breathing better, smelling, and tasting better. It has also become an enjoyable hobby to learn more about vaporizing and how these things are made. I have now upgraded to one of the best/safest possible PV’s on the market, if not the best in my opinion, Provari. When I smell cigarettes now they smell terrible and undesirable to me, this seems to be the general consensus of the many, many vapors I have talked to. in my state I can still use this indoors, not at my place of work sadly but I can pop off into the skywalks and take a quick break. My vaping has never bothered anybody else in the skywalks and is much better than going outside in sub zero temps or rain, extreme heat, ect.(some of which could ruin my vaporizer.) I made sure to research that my 2nd had vapor is not harmful to anyone around and if it is very crowded I respectfully wait for people to pass so my vapor is not being blown directly on them as that is just common respect. When I see children walking near me I refrain from vaping as I do not want any child to think this is something they should do unless they already are battling with smoking or have started smoking (although they do see smokers in their everyday lives anyway so this is just out of respect, I refrain from vaping around anyone around age 16 and under). Like many I am slowly decreasing the amount of nicotine used and can much more easily, slowly quit when it becomes my will to do so as I do not feel like vaporizing has a stranglehold on me like cigarettes did, I don’t get so tense and have a nic fit if I don’t vaporize for a few hours, I can go without longer and just don’t feel that pull, forcing me to go smoke at that exact moment as with my PV I can wait if needed without as much of a problem. It is also helping me, like many get more in depth into what is happening politically around them which is a great thing as some of the legislation passed around these is just all to obvious that nobody cares about our health just their tax dollars. Some states are going in a better direction and I applaud anyone who is standing up for this community. It is so sad to me to see people demonizing vapors for seeking out a safer alternative as if they are smokers and forcing them outside especially if im going to a concert or an event at our local events center, this is unjustifiable. Especially when there is an anti smoking add every 5 minutes on TV you would think that this would be gladly accepted as the bulk of this community is people who have converted to vaporizing after smoking many years. There is no way I would have been able to quit with blu ecigs pre filled cartomizers, or any disposables (cigalikes as they are known that still impose and resemble smoking a cigarette compared to devices that look nothing like a cigarette and tastes nothing like a cigarette). They are extremely expensive and no where near as innovative and well working as the PV’s now on the market. There is so much innovation and hard working people for a safer alternative and it would bring a tear to my eye to see this be demonized by people who don’t understand what this is or do not try to understand and just consider us smokers which is completely wrong. Nicotine itself is in many plants and is not the tobacco leaf sprayed with chemicals being crudely combusted and inhaled. Vaporizing is not tobacco and has improved my life dramatically. I had tried to quit smoking cigarettes at least twice with gum, patches, pills and the dissolvable mouth products that resemble candy. Non of which worked for me in long term and were very expensive. The worse of all was the pills that make you feel like a different person and almost drive you insane, I just felt terrible while taking these, I know MANY others feel the same.