I am a 31 year old meat cutter who started smoking cigarettes @ 12 years of age. By the time i was 16 i was a pack a day smoker. i tried quitting several times, never with success. i tried the patches for a week and wound up smoking while wearing them. i bought my first ecig in may of 2013 with the intent of quitting cigerettes. it was an ego battery with a dct tank that held juice. i was at 24 strngth nicotine for several mnths then dropped to 18 until thanksgiving last year i got a mech mod with a drip atomizer. As of christmas 2013, i’m at a low nic. level of 6 mg. i havn’t even wante a cigarette in 6 mnths, i havn’t had one in 8 mnths. my last 2 years as a smoker, i would cough up thick lung butter every mornining. i would get bronchitis every winter. i couldn’t run very far without losing my breath. smoking was taking a toll on my body. my sex stamina was losing its juju. now i feel as if i’ve gotten some years back. my lungs feel as if they’ve healed. i feel better, smell better and taste better. my family is much happier with me. my seven year old boy used to hate my smoking, couldn’t stand the smell. neither could my wife. now they like the smells my pipe puts out. when i started vaping, i really liked the tobacco flavors but i would still crave a cigarette from time to time. when i started using the drip atomizer on my mechanical mod that all changed. i started getting into flavors and now i dont even like the tobacco flavors. i do all my shopping at a local shop in my town. they make all my juice right there in front of me. they saved my life. they taught me how to vape safely concerning my batteries and resistance of my coils. they taught me how to really enjoy vaping. they dont use any flavorings that aren’t approved. i like my juice 10 percent propylene glycol and 90 percent vegetable glycerin with a 6 mg nicotine level, makes a nice thick, smooth vape. i like trying different flavors all the time, just like ice cream. i think very soon i might go to a 0 nicotine juice. i think most of my smoking habit was just having something in myhand to puff on. i feel mypipe now is much safer puffing on, for me and my family.