Hello My Name is Cody McDaniel. I am 27 years old. I am from Houston,Tx. I was born in Clearlake,Tx and raised in Baytown,Tx. I started smoking when i was 16 yrs old. When i turned 17 i started smoking a pack a day and continued to smoke for 10 years. I quite approx. 2 1/2 months ago thanks to E-Cig’s. How it all started….. Well approx. 6 months ago i went to the doctor due to alot weird strange changes in my body. Alot of coughing and weezing and was having a hard breathing just walking down the stairs just to get in my car to get to work. Also, to add to the fact my eating habits were terrible i was completely out of shape. So when i came to my doctor about these problems that i was having i took alot of blood test and a couple of days later i received my results. Doctor stated that my blood pressure was 150/109 my cholestrol was over 296. If i didn’t clean up my life i would be looking at a heart attack by the age of 35. So i took that advice and decided to clean up my life. Now the doctor did say that my eating habits most likely have alot to do with my blood pressure being so high and didnt mention much about the smoking of ciggarettes. So after about a month of the quitting of drinking soda’s and eating fast food i went back to do the doctor to get my blood test and to see my improvements. My cholestrol level was down my liver panels where still quit elevated but have decreased but my blood pressure was still really high and didnt improve very much. Thats when smoking cig’s were brought to the light and was the cause of my high blood pressure. My doctor told me that i need to seriously think about trying to slow down on smoking cigarettes and my only response was psshhh… How am i going to do that without seriously stressing my self out about it?… So i left and continued my good eating habits. Until i started noticing that i started getting bad head aches and starting having this popping sound (almost like a oceans water crashing against a wall) and these dizzy spells and even one time a dizzy spell hit me when i was at my desk at work and almost fell out of my chair. That was a extremely embarassing think to happen at work because everyone thought i was having a heart attack. My chest was tight and could barely breathe. I was needless to say scared out of my mind and thought one day i am going to die like this. Also to keep in mind i do not drink alchohol. I refuse to drink alchohol after seeing my uncle die from liver cancer due to Alchoholsim in 2012. Also, did not drink very much prior to that anwyways. So after having that incident at work i decided to look for a way to get me off smoking. I have tried patches in my prior years and nicoret gum but both make me sick to my stomach and i know i couldnt do that and try to quit smoking. So i almost felt lost and was really close from giving up and just dealing with the problem in which were coming my way if i didnt quit smoking. UNTIL i came into approx. 2 1/2 months ago and ran into a co-worker that was smoking a Personal Vaporizer (aka E-cig) It was a evod kit with a Clearomizer and a battery attached to it. SO i asked WHAT is that your smoking. She said i quit smoking a couple of weeks ago and i started vaping and was completly taken away by it and i was Oh my god something new i havent tried. So later that week when i got paid i went and purchased my very first Vaporizer. Varible Voltage Device witha Kangertech Mini 2 with a 50pg/50vg Blueberry E Juice and i have never took a step back again. I have not had a smoke in 2 1/2 months thanks for E-Cigs. Now i have moved onto vaping as a complete Hobby. I just purchased my first RDA and RBA and mecahnical mod that i am really happy about getting and cant wait to use it. Now just 2 weeks ago to this day i went to the doctor and got my blood tested the whole works. I received my results late last week my blood pressure is completly normal chloestrol is still a bit elevated but improved my 90%. So i am well on my way. I started excerising again and i feel more motivated to do thing and i feel completly empowered and self confident. Vaporizers, varible voltage and wattage devices and ego devices and mechanical mods as well have changed my life completly for the better. I think what needs to be looked at is the fact that the FDA will approve alcohol and fast food and ciggarettes for consumption and knowing that it is killing millions of people so why bother a industries that is only improving the community and stimulating the econmy. I have seen more shops being set up everyweek. Pretty sad that the United States of America allows America to kill itself. So has Vaping change my life. YES it was for the complete better and i plan to continue to do so. VAPE ON!!!