My husband and I were smokers of cigarettes for many years, he for over 33 years and me on and off for over 20 years. We had tried other methods to quit…patches, gum, cold turkey…and were unable to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. We then tried e-cigarettes (mods with juice we can add) the end of February 2014 and were able to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes in ONE week! We have been tobacco free now for 5-1/2 months. We have since gotten quite a few other people off of cigarettes by advocating the use of e-cigarettes, the ONE thing that actually works! Even though we smoked outside of our house and cars, our 5 children are ECSTATIC that we were able to quite smoking cigarettes after so many years. We now have back our sense of smell/taste and have gotten rid of the odor of cigarettes that we always carried as a badge for tobacco smoking. We now have advanced to using mechanical mods for rebuilding with drippers and tanks and e-juice, which has helped us to go from 18 mg down to currently 6 mg of nicotine, with our goal to get to 0 mg of nicotine. It is great to be smoke free and be able to get rid of our coughing and wheezing we had for so many years. We can climb stairs without being winded. My husband had his lung function tested a few weeks ago for his job, and they were amazed when he told them that he had been a smoker for over 33 years and had quit 4 months previously (at that time) because his lung function was much higher than someone who has not been a smoker. I for one wish that the government would stay out of this…something that has helped MILLIONS to stop smoking, especially since the research has shown that cigarette use has declined. Isn’t that what the government originally wanted? I think it is UNFAIR that the tobacco companies even have a say in this, as they are the ones who created this mess (tobacco cigarettes) with our health, at our expense! We expect regulations, but to require us to go to the cigalikes, which BTW I had tried and would not have been able to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes with, as it is NOT the same as the electronic cigarettes that we currently use or originally used to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes all together!