I’m one of those people who LOVED smoking, and who claimed she’d never quit till some mortician somewhere pried that last smoldering butt from her cold, dead hand. In spite of this, I quit smoking with relative ease using electronic cigarettes, and have now been completely smoke free for a full year. It happened almost by accident, really. A dear friend gave me a simple e-cigarette kit as a present, and I tried it just for the novelty of it all. At first it was just a conversation piece, but I soon found that I enjoyed e-cigarettes a lot, and noticed that I was smoking less and less. Late one afternoon it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn’t smoked a cigarette all day! It was at that moment that I realized that I really could quit, and that, after 40 years of smoking cigarettes, I could truly be free of tobacco. Since then I’ve recommended electronic cigarettes to several friends who smoke, and they, too, are slowly coming around. Of course I feel great about that, and ever so grateful to my thoughtful and generous friend. Electronic cigarettes do save lives – of that I am absolutely sure.