I am a stable pack a day smoker. I am 59 years old. I started smoking around 12 years old. I started vaping about 1 1/2 years ago. High strength nic, different flavors, 80% PG, 20% VG. My smoking started dropping in the first week, and kept slowly dropping, that by the end of the year, I would occasionally have a social cigarette or cigarillo (every 2nd or 3rd week). The transition was without effort. My sense of taste and smell is returning. I have lost my taste for tobacco. I was starting to cough and have problems with breathing. I am not coughing anymore, and I am regaining energy and breath. I liked smoking, and I did not want to quit. Now I like vaping, and I will not quit. As my sense of taste is changing, I am still hunting around for a flavor that I consider is ideal for me. I mix my own flavors, and I like rebuild-able mods. I have no problems with people around me. Vaping does not bother them – even the ones that smoking bothers. For the most part, they think that it is a good idea, and support me. They also introduce me to their friends who smoke, hoping that I will succeed in getting them to switch.