I am 73, and smoked for 56 years. I had severe (as the doctors and I thought) allergies, especially for the last 5 years, and spent many days in doctors offices. I have had numerous treatments, including shots, cat scans, chest x-rays, medications, and breathing treatments, all to help me breath. My sinuses were continually congested, I coughed 24/7, and could not sleep. It made life for everyone around me miserable. I had tried the nicotine patches several times in the last 10 years to no avail, and I sure didn’t like the way they affected my physically. I also had read all the negatives, and health (mental and physical)problems created by other medicines designed to help you quit. Too me, they were as bad as the cigarettes. I had it in the back of my mind that if I quit smoking it would help my allergies, at least my poor sinuses. I got up one morning in December 2012, and there was blood in the phlegm I coughed up. On the way to the doctors, I stopped and picked up an electric cigarette I had seen advertised on TV the night before. I used that all day, and by that evening I was much better. That night I started doing some research on the computer and found a whole new group of non smokers out there that had quit by using e-cigs. I invested in an e-cigarette starter kit called Ego. The day I got the Ego kit and some e-juice, was the last day I smoked a cigarette. I immediately quit coughing. Every problem I had with my sinuses cleared up within 3 days, and I have never looked back, or had a sinus or allergy problem since. My doctor is thrilled and has queried me about how to get started, as he has many patients interested and asking about the e-cigarettes. He did not have the knowledge he needed to be able to pass on the information. My sense of smell and taste have improved. I sleep through the night, I no longer suffer any physical problems created, and caused by smoking real cigarettes. I can climb up a flight of stairs now, without stopping to catch my breath. I could go on for hours about what positive effects it has had on myself and my family. I am no longer being poisoned by all the additives in tobacco. I plan on reducing the nicotine level at my own comfortable pace, and am thrilled that there is a proven (by the Swedish) safe, affordable alternative to help us stop smoking. I pray that money and greed don’t hamper this, as there are a lot of smokers out there that want to quit, and have not learned about e-cigarettes yet. I’ll stand up against the lies created about e-cigarettes every chance I get. They have saved my life.