I started smoking when I was 12, it was the in thing to do,grown up, and no one talked about the risks in 1970. I did stop for the first 3 months of my pregnancy, in 1978, as was recommended at that epoch. All done, I smoked for 43 years, until my friend had a bad attack of asthma, which took him to hospital for a week. The specialist told him he wouldn’t have a long time left if he didn’t stop smoking. For a week, it was hell with nicotine patches. Irritable, he was impossible to live with almost. Then I read about Electronic cigarettes on the Web. While waiting for a rechargeable kit, with Eliquid to arrive by the post, we found a shop that sold disposable ones, which I tried too. I liked them so we both became vapers, and ex-smokers, the same day. No nasty side effects, irritability, insomnia, it was so painless I could hardly believe it. I’d not even thought of stopping smoking, until I tasted it, and thought how much easier it would be at 2. Since then, June 2012, my friend hasn’t smoked a real cigarette, in fact when he tried it disgusted him, and made him choke. His lungs work much better, which was almost an impossibility as far as he was concerned. We have both recovered our sense of taste, smell, respire and sleep better, and there’s no smell of old smoke in the house. If we couldn’t have bought the disposable Ecigs at the local super market, and the tobacconist maybe we wouldn’t have order rechargeable kits, and continued to use Electronic Cigarettes. It’s more or less saved my friends’ life, as his days were numbered if he continued smoking, and the patches weren’t working for him at all. He needed to smoke as well. But since he started using Ecigs, with Ejuice he likes he’s managed what he thought was the impossible. It’s the same for me, although my life wasn’t immediately threatened. It’s so easy to use an Ecig instead of lighting up a cigarette, that it quickly becomes a habit, and I don’t even think of smoking now, after just over a year of abstinence. We’ve both reduced the nicotine content of our Eliquid by half, without any problem, and will probably continue to reduce it. Stopping smoking wasn’t, for me at any rate, a simple question of stopping nicotine, but of no longer having something in my hand and mouth. I’m maybe nervous by nature, but it was a factor that really made it possible for me to change my method of nicotine absorbtion, from smoking, which I evidently now know to be a mortel danger, to vaping, something that is certainly not as dangerous, by far, as smoking. I don’t want to stop vaping for the moment, as it is a pleasure that I don’t consider puts my life at risk. I’ve talked to people who use Ecigs since 2007, and they have no noticeable side effects, the products I use are certified and tested for purity. I feel that Electronic Cigarettes are a life saver, especially for people who have great difficulty to give up smoking, even though their lives depend on it. Lastly, I don’t think it would have even crossed my mind to stop smoking if Ecigs weren’t so easy to buy, on the street corner, more or less. I only hope that will continue. Banning, or limiting the sale would, in my opinion as an ex-smoker, make it less easy to choose as an option for using nicotine, and would prevent many smokers from becoming ex-smokers.