I’m going to be completely honest I have been smoking since it was 16 years old. I was a 1/2 to a pack smoker after i turned 18 all the way up till I was 23. At 23 I was working in the medical field as an EMT, with two chuildren and a wife. Smoking cigerettes was not only negativly effecting my health and that of my family, but it was also costing quite a lot more then it had when i first started. I switched to ecigs in the middle of july 2012. For almost a year now I have not had a single drag from a cigerette. My health has improved greatly, I use to get sinus and upper respitory infection 4-5 times year, I just had my first one earlier this month, but that was alergy related. My lung volume has increased, and I don’t have the smokers cough that I use to. I have been slowly backing down off the nicotine levels after finally finding a number of falvors that I like. 1.8 mg/ml at first, i am now down to 1.2mg/ml and will soon (within the next 3-6 months) be backing down to 0.6 mg/ml.