I started smoking when i was 12 and smoked for 21 years, the longest i ever gave up for was 6 months, most attempts lasted a week at the most. I tried cold turkey (terrible for everyone around me lol), patches (useless), gum (disgusting), inhalator (nasty) and herbal cigarettes (smelt like fish!). I needed to give up, my health was being affected by constant colds and chest infections, it was rare that i wasn’t ill. I first discovered ecigs through my Grandad he had been using them for quite a while but i didn’t think they were for me. Then my Mum died and i started smoking up to 80 a day. One day i came out of a train station and a stall was set up outside selling a famous brand of ecigs (won’t name them cos i think they are rubbish), i bought some and took them home. The battery ran out too quick and so did the carts but while it lasted (between charges) i didn’t smoke. I thought this could work for me but i need something better and started to research on the net. I got my ego-t in April 2011 and have been vaping ever since. Since i started vaping i rarely get a cold and i haven’t had a chest infection at all. I can run up stairs without passing out, i can actually breath! I no longer stink like an ashtray and neither does my home. Do i intend to give up nicotine, NO i don’t! but i don’t intend to give up caffeine either. Have i smoked since, yea i’ve had the odd one but they just taste weird now, i can’t believe i actually use to enjoy smoking! I keep reading about how ecigs are marketed at children because of the flavours, what a load of rubbish! We as adult vapers requested the flavours as many of us didn’t want to vape tobacco flavours. Adults enjoy flavour, we have flavoured coffees, alcoholic drinks and even specialist icecreams aimed at the adult market. I myself have over 80 different flavours and only about five are tobacco flavours (that i rarely use). The different flavours are one of the reasons that ecigs work for me.