I have been around cigarette smoke my whole life. My grandmother she started smoking after she had my mother in 1958.I was born in 1983 back then you were still allowed to smoke in restaurants and bars and the like. I remember when I was little watching her grab a cigarette and light it up. Watching the smoke come out her nostrils after she exhaled cup of coffee in one hand cigarette in the other the smell was God awful. As the years went on the smell became more alluring. Finally one day I was 12yo she was asleep and I stole my first cigarette found some strike any where matches and went outside behind this tree and next to the garage and lit it up. I coughed and coughed and put it out it burned my lungs made my breath stink. Thinking how could someone do this. Then one day when I was 15 on the ride home from school a friend tossed me a smoke after the bus dropped me off I lit it up never coughed never stopped. I remember it made me light headed and kinda nauseous but I still smoked it. Since that day I have been a pack a day smoker for 15 years I’m 30 now. Grandma is gone from lung cancer she passed when I was 20 in 2004. One of her last wishes was for me to quit smoking 10 years later I still smoke. Some times I smoke a pack a day or 2 packs I smoked a lot more when I did drugs. All the money I wasted slowly killing myself and then the government with their fire safe cigs which is bs they supposed to go out in certain spots never do burn all the way in the tray but go out while puffing on it and what ever chemicals they use in them totally changed the taste of the smoke and I feel affected my health more than b4 yea I know smoking that long didn’t help but messing with them to make Em safer didn’t help either. I tried stop smoking methods cold turkey only lasted a week. Tried gum made me sick. Tried the patch made me wanna smoke more. And just couldn’t afford the medicine like chantix etc. Then about a year ago I heard about ecigs tried it once didn’t like it the flavor and throaty hit wasn’t there. But then about a couple of months ago I found these vaporizer style that you can choose the amount of nicotine and flavor of your choice. So for a lil pocket change I picked one up and loved it the flavor the throaty hit everything. Since about cpl months ago I been puffing on this ecig vaporizer and dramatically reduce my smoking went from a pack or two a day to bout one or two cigs a day mainly after waking up and meals. I feel like I can breathe again. No more loss of breath no more bad breath or smelly clothes no more smoke film in my car and I can puff that inside public places. I can smell and Taste food again and I haven’t gained the usual stop smoking weight. And I haven’t experienced any negative effects in a couple of months since I started vaping other than every once in a while the vapor gives me a sore throat due to the humidity of the vapor. so I went from smoking a pack a day for 15 years to 1 or 2 cigs a day using a personal vaporizer and feel 10x healthier than I did a couple months ago and been trying to get my friends to try what I did. Im more active now and not feeling self conscious about having to leave a family event to go smoke a analog cig.