I was an analog smoker for 46 years and the last 20 at 4 packs a day. That is a cigarette every 12-15 minutes. I tried to stop 5 times using patches which broke my skin out in a rash. Gum which made me very nauseated and lozenges which were alittle better but I would hiccup endlessly. When I tried the electronic cigarette 3 years ago it cost $150.00 for a small stick battery and some cartridges and liquid. I thought what a waste and I am on a fixed income and knew I would be spending a lot on both nicotine products. So I thought forget it. Then in March of 2013 I could no longer breathe well and was on oxygen 24/7, and oxygen level with an oximeter was 85. I had a blood test done called an AVG to test oxygen and carbon in the blood and NO WAY!! Oxygen was 40%, carbon was 66%. My Dr. with tears said, B. it is time to quit or you won’t be here. I didn’t know what to do and prayed and cried a lot which is hard to do when you cannot breathe well. My mother then said, what about those electronic things you had before. My brother who does not smoke had been the one to tell me about them 3 years prior. I still had the battery, charger, and an old blank cartridge but no liquid. I called the number of the place that had sent me my original but they were long gone. So I went online and Wow… they were everywhere. So I ordered from the next state over and bam I was vaping. Did not want to die but cigarettes are worse than anything I had been on. I am 57 (from the 60’s and 70’s) so I do know about addiction. It is now August 26th, and I am alive, breathing without oxygen, and my level is 95 regularly. How much damage I did, I do not know, but I will say this, through years of people treating me like the plague, smokers have finally got together to help each other out and we have hit it on the nose. No more 2,000 chemicals, carbon dioxide, tar, and a chance to live. I am appalled that I have to fight for the right to live. No ban on cigarettes? No ban on alcohol? Try to ban an effective alternative to smoking? Is money all that our country is based on now. I do not believe that any vaperers what to put anything bad back into their bodies and that is why tests are done and redone and we don’t mind because we want it as safe as it can be but, how did 2000 chemicals get into tobacco in the first place. I ask that we make sure people who really care be part of this eye opening alternative to a horrible killing moneymaker known as analogs. The electronic cigarette has changed and given me some life back. I have passed it on and now several family members are analog free too. I am proud to be a vaper. Thank you to all who had a part in paving this remarkable invention.