I started smoking at age 16, at the time of coarse minors were not supose to be able to purchase cigarettes but i had a pack a day starting at age 16 of full flavor marlboro. Im 34 years old now. At age 32 after trying to quit cold turkey of smoking i finally went to a pulmonologist because i was having trouble breathing. I had developed asthma and COPD at age 34 after being around two parents second hand smoke my whole life and smoking myself for 16 years. My Doctor said i had to quit or my breathing would get worse. I tried his way , with a specialist to help me quit smoking. Took home some litrature and a prescription for welbutrin. After two weeks of smoking sessation program I was still smoking and couldnt put the cigarettes down. Then i googles electronic cigarettes one day as a final measure to save my life. My mother had died of lung Cancer at age 63 from smoking since she was 16 smoked two packs a day of winstons. I realized i was not too far from age 63 and with two kids and a husband i had to quit smoking somehow. I ordered my first electronic cigarette. I put alot of faith in making this work as i did with the prescription. Three days into using an electronic cigarette i was no longer smoking with it. After a week i had completely stoped smoking and buying cigarettes. After two weeks the changes started happening in my life after being smoke free for only two weeks. For two weeks i coughed up some really horrible phlegm, I was not liking the change of coughing so much stuff up, almost went back to smoking to make it stop. Instead i kept with it and did alot of research. It was on the 18th Day that i woke up in tears of joy! It was the first morning in 16 yrs that i woke up and didnt go into a coughing fit and bronical spasm from smoking. I sat up took a deep breath in and out. And i started to cry. I cried because i forgot what it was like to wake up normal without coughing and gasping for my breath. Thirty days after i quit smoking i went back to my pulmonologist. I had another breathing test done. The results as he said and showed were 99% improvement in lung function. I know longer was using spiriva inhaler or my rescue inhaler daily. I used only the rescue inhaler if necessary. The doctor asked me how I quit smoking. I told him i bought an electronic cigarette. I explained to him what was in it, He wrote in my chart continue use of electronic cigarette. He said just keep doing it, because the diffrence is amazing. I have now been smoke free for two and half years using electronic cigarettes. My husband started 30 days after i quit and he is also now two years smoke free. We both continue the use of electronic cigarettes as our nicotine replacement and as long as it keeps us from the dangerous chemicals and carcinogens with real cigarettes we are happy and healthier for it. I really do believe with evidence in doctors reports that tobacco harm reduction product such as an electronic cigarette has given more time on this earth with my family. Im very greatful for finding Electronic Cigarettes it saved my life. The only down side of electronic cigarettes is , there is less nicotine in them than regular cigarettes and i have gained weight in the two years i quit smoking as most former smokers do. Mainly because food taste so much better now, and my senses of smell and taste buds after quting smoking have come back to me…