I have smoked since I was 14 years old. I have tried quitting at least a dozen times but failed. The worse was when I used Nicoderm. The nicotine content of that product made me smoke 2 packs a day when I quit using it from 1/2 pack a day before I started. April 16, 2013. My daughter turned 15. She asked me to stop smoking for her birthday so that I could live longer. I said okay just like how I always do. I went to my next door neighbor to bum a smoke since it was 9AM and I have not even brushed my teeth yet. He told me he quitted and showed me an eGo personal vaporizer. He said I can get it with nicotine and that it taste just like cigarette. He told me where to get it. I went to the place and bought a pack of cigarette and a beginner’s setup. It cost me $60. I told myself that it would be hard to make it work because of the cost. I smoked a cigarette from the pack and tucked it away at the trunk of my car – away from reach. I then started vaping. I still have 19 sticks of stale Marlboro Lights in my trunk. I did nicotine for 5 days. I slowly lowered the concentration by mixing the nicotine laced bottle of liquid with the non-nicotined bottle. On the fifth day, I slept all day and only vaped after a meal. That ended my nicotine addiction. I of course gained 25 pounds in 3 months but I have stabilized that already and is slowly losing it. A month after quitting, I started selling personal vaporizers. ( I do not call them e-cigarettes. eCigarettes looks like cigarettes with nicotine. eLiquids used in PVs will only have nicotine if you choose to put it in.) eBay harrassed me and brought down my listings. I ended up opening my own online store. I now sell affordable PVs and eLiquids with no nicotine. I do offer nicotine additives that customers could add themselves. I am a member of numerous vape boards and groups. We discuss ways to get better experience and help each other quit the nicotine habit. Vaping is fun because you get to get flavor-filled vapors. I even stopped hacking in the morning and minimized my snoring at night by vaping menthol-laced flavors to clear my air passages. It’s just like the room vaporizers! While I could understand that nicotine, being a tobacco byproduct should be regulated, I do not think that PVs should be categorized with eCigarettes and be banned. If anything, they should only allow sales of nicotine additives in establishments that is licensed to sell tobacco. If is ironic that the pack of cigarettes that I used to smoke have gone down in pricing from $5.75 a pack to $5.25 and now $4.75. If we really want to a safe and clean America, why don’t we just make nicotine illegal altogether? The tobacco industry supports making vaping illegal because of the nicotine harm anyways. Oh – they forgot the benefits of nicotine and the fact that it is actually safe – a result of a study that they once paid for!!!