I was a 26 year smoker. I had dabbled in the cig-a-like e-cigs..(the ones that look like the real ones) with no success. Until I was introduced to an ego style device with a cartomiser tank. I am now just over 4 months anolog cig free with absolutely no desire for the real thing. Through my vaping journey I started with cartomisers and found them to be a good match for my daily life as a truck driver with the longer tank life and batter life. I have upgraded to better mods for the battery life and have dabbled in rebuild-able’s but I am mainly a cartomiser person. When I started I was told that as a pack and a half smoker of menthol’s a day I should start at or around 24mg of nic. I quickly realized that was to high and tried 18mg. Again to high.. so I went to 12mg. I found my comfort spot. I vaped as if I was smoking.. I completely replaced my cigs for the vaping. To me it was quickly apparent just how much the habit played into my addiction. So I wasn’t going thru withdraws or anything as I was getting plenty of nicotine, I was however able to get over that habit of reaching for the cigs. I found myself surprised at all the routine situations I had programmed in my head that were times for a cig. So with my PV in my shirt pocket I went about working those habits out. I believe at about three months I started to not reach for the shirt pocket anymore. I decided to start to reduce my nic levels. I am now chasing 10mgs… WOW.. I….I am in control of this.. what a major breakthrough for me in my head.. I can do this. While I have grown to enjoy the social aspect of it, meeting people of like mind doing what I am doing, I know I can DO THIS… I plan to be at 0nic someday.. but on my terms.. when I am ready. I had tried patches.. no real stepping down… not slowly like i think i need.. I tried pills.. really? prescribed by a dr who smokes? with all those side effects that ,well make you wonder what is worse… I kept my ashtray on my desk with my last butt in to for 3 months before I actually realized, Hey I can now go in the house with my desk as I don’t have to smoke outside no more. I feel better, I’m breathing better, and my kids think its awesome. Dad don’t (in the words of my 6yr old) do drugs. Cigarettes are drugs dad…(and that used to piss me off too.. First why is someone telling my kid this, and secondly because I new it WAS bad for me and I couldn’t answer him.) So now I smell like, in my sons words again, a car air freshener. Guess its better then the alternative. Will I stop completely? I can’t honestly say. I have grown to like the vaping side of this. Will I ever get to 0nic? you can bet your ass. Will I let legislation stop me? NO.. I am doing this for me and my family. Politicians and the misinformed need to stay out of this. If you hate smoking soo much then why would you stop someone from experiencing what I have? This isn’t about being cool like it was when I started smoking at the age of 13… Its about saving my life and being around to help my kids not make the same choices I did. How can I tell them not to smoke and still be smoking. I know I know… what if they want to vape you ask… well I would try and talk them out of it as if they were trying to smoke… but I honestly feel if they are dead serious about it with or without my say..at least they are vaping.. My name is Art. I was a 26 year smoker.I am now living better and feeling better then I have in a long time. I stopped smoking the day I started vaping and I haven’t looked back. If you smoke now, please join me.. You will thank me someday. PEACE and GOD-BLESS