My name is Mike Petro, and at the time of this writing (6/15/2014) I am 55 years old. I currently reside in Martinsville Virginia. I am a Manager at a large Manufacturing facility. I have smoked cigarettes, and ultimately large cigars (inhaling them) since I was 15. Over the years I have tried to quit more times than I can count. I have tried the Patch, Nicotrol, Zyban, Chantrix, nicotine gum, will power, religion, hypnosis, meditation, early version of ecigs), cold turkey, tapering off, and countless more methods. At most I have abstained for 6 months or so. The most effective method being nicotrol as it somewhat mimicked the behavior and still provided nicotine, alas even that was short lived. I even tried the early 2009 version of cig-a-likes, that didn