As I type this out, it has been over 3 years since my last cigarette. This achievement is only thanks to portable vaporizers that are so readily available today. I started smoking at 18, legally. It was an awful habit, but you know that. Everything about me stunk. Even my hair had an unwashable stink to it. I was a half-pack a day smoker from 18-21, when I decided that enough was enough. But nothing helped. I was allergic to the adhesive on the patches, the gum wasn’t allowed in the call center floor, and the crazy Chantix nightmares nearly got me fired. Then I moved to a gas station vape pen. As bad as it was, it got me off the smokes for a time. But instead of going back to smoking, I decided to upgrade my equipment. In case you don’t know, as you get further into upgrading, the amount of nicotine that you should use in juice decreases. So that’s what I did. Just 2 months into vaping, I had dropped from 24mg, roughly the strength of a Red Full Flavor cigarette, to 18mg of nicotine, about the same as a light. The next three years after I gradually reduced my nicotine intake to 0, and now I only use vaporizors purely for the fun of it. As a result of using these devices, I’m much healthier. My lung capacity has increased, I can excercise for longer periods of time, I can taste and smell properly, and my heartrate has essentially returned to normal, and on top of all that my blood pressure dropped from 135/90 down to 105/55.