Well, here’s my tale. One day, at a local mall, my son and I were walking around. It was kind of chilly that day and I felt a bit bad about having my son out side with me as I smoked a cigarette. Upon reentering the mall after a half-finished cigarette I stopped by an e-cig kiosk. The gentleman asked me if I was a smoker, which should have been apparent since I had just come back in from having one and since he was not a smoker himself. I replied that yes I was indeed a smoker. He started out by handing me a little e-cig to try. One Similar to the style of e-cig the big tobacco companies produce. I had tried them before without much luck because they try to reproduce a cigarettes flavor… but fail miserably. Anytime I had tried one before, I would puff on it like crazy for a while but I could never get satisfaction. They always left me vaping and then smoking directly afterwards. Based on my previous experiences with them and so as not to waste time, I asked about one of the larger products with a refillable glass tank and also about the different flavors that could be put in them. I explained to him that with my previous failure with cigarette looking e-cigs that I would like something that tasted better than a cigarette. Perhaps that way I wouldn’t want to return to the stinkies. He showed me a few options and I made a selection. From that day forward, my life changed. I, for 15 years, had been a smoker of Newports. I got to the point that I was smoking two to two and a half packs per day. I had tried to quit via patches, gum and cold turkey. None of those options had worked for me for more than a week. I was hesitant to try prescription drugs, due to the side effects of nightmares that some of my coworkers had experienced . Despite the drugs working for a few coworkers temporarily they all went back to smoking within a few months. That said, on my first day of vaping with a mouth to lung style tank, my cigarette intake dropped from 50 to 10. The next day was 7. The day after was 3. The next day was 1 and a half. The next day was about half of one. My final day smoking included about three puffs on a cigarette and I threw it out because it tasted horribly. Since then it’s been 4 months. I haven’t smoked again. In that time spent vaping I have reduced my nicotine intake from an initial 12mg solution to a 1.5mg to 2mg solution. I plan to drop nicotine completely in the near future. I’m not sure if I will continue to vape for enjoyment beyond that point or not. One thing is certain in my mind however, I will never return to cigarettes. If ever the desire to smoke arose in a bad way again, I am fully aware of better tasting, less stinky, alternatives these days. At this point I love fruit and dessert flavors and the argument that sweet flavors only serve the purpose of trying to hook kids angers me greatly. Without vaping being a tasty, pleasurable alternative to smoking, I’m sure I would have returned to smoking. If all that was available and all that I could vape was a tobacco flavor, I’d probably just keep smoking tobacco. Now that I make my own ejuice I won’t have to worry about that though 🙂 In the time that I haven’t smoked, I’ve noticed my lungs work better. I can breathe again. I can walk up stairs without being winded at the top again. I can run again. My resting heart rate has dropped by 10 bpm on average. My blood pressure has gone down. My teeth are becoming whiter. I don’t stink. My vehicles don’t stink. Food tastes better. My sense of smell works better. Also, as an aside, one of my kids has reactive airway disease and the smell of cigarettes on my clothes was sometimes enough to trigger an asthmatic reaction in him. Vaping in his vicinity has no ill effects at all.