I was a social smoker when I first started. It felt like everyone I worked with at my first real job (factory tech) smoked cigarettes. I noticed that every one that did smoke would get like 3-4 extra breaks off the line. The smoke breaks took any where between 5-10 mins, so 15-40 mins outside extra over one shift. While if you didn’t smoke you were expected to keep on working. This is when I purchased my first pack of the stinkies. I never really smoked them at first so I would buy a pack for 5$ just to go outside and hang with my co-workers. So this lasted for the rest of my time at this automotive plant. I then took another job at a close by factory same extra smoke breaks. Started dating a young lady that had the bad habit of smoking as well. This triggered me into a fight with cigarettes and many other issues I don’t care to think about let alone type here. For the next 5 years or so I smoked lightly off and on trying to say to my self its just a social thing I’m not really addicted to cigarettes. After the relationship ended I learned just how addicted I was, went from a half a pack a day up to 1-2 packs a day over a months time. 5 more years I struggled with giving up the caner sticks with no progress. I had tried a couple times to quit even before I really heard about the original E-cigarette. Every one remembers the ones that looked like a normal cig with a light on the end but they couldn’t quite be what I was hoping for. The first gen E-cigarette while they did help me work an entire shift with out going outside I couldn’t use these to kick the habit. This part of my story is where we get excited. I went into a local vape shop just looking around to see what was new and speak to the nice guy that sold me all the vape juice I had gotten thus far. I told him how I was smoking less but still couldn’t shake the habit. He just so happened to be rebuilding his personal RDA(rebuildable dripping atomizer) and had put it away when the place got a little busy. He told me that he had the same problem when he first tried to switch to vapor over smoke, and he wanted me to watch him build and then try out this new way to vape. I was skeptical thinking eh yeah it may be a little better but I doubt this will have any lasting effect. After he got the coils in his RDA, tested the ohm’s of his build,& wicked it with cotton. I felt a little smarter with his short ohm explanation. Then I vaped on it and it was like the stars aligned and I had to buy an RDA and Mod right then & there. Later the next day I trashed a pack of smokes with 6 left in it still. This new way to vape set me free. That was 9 months ago and I’m here to tell you every night after the switch to vapor I’ve felt drastic improvement in my lung function. (I can breath, I sleep more soundly, tastes were almost doubled on my pallet) When smoking analog(real) cigarettes I would wake up and do what I did every morning for the last 4+ years coupe up black and dark green shit.(for lack of a betterword) 1-2 weeks of not smoking and using my RDA to vape I just felt better, there was no more black discharge in my morning rituals. I started being able to sleep better, wasn’t mad or sad or in foul moods at all like every other time I had tried to quit, and failed. Vaporizers have extended several years of my life I am positive of this .