I tried my first cigarette when I was just 10 years old. Loved it from the first puff. By 16 I was smoking almost a pack a day, getting them from an old vending machine in a bowling alley near where I lived. I’ve tried to quit several times, with gum, patches, even cold turkey. Though I settled in to about a half-pack a day for most of my adult life, I couldn’t seem to really kick this awful habit. Then, around 2008, e-cigs started popping up and I gave it a shot. It was one of the early cigarette-sized units with a refillable cartridge. I really gave it a go and managed to stay off the smoke for almost a week before I needed a new vaporizer unit. At the time, they were almost $10 each, and along with the liquid prices and cost of new batteries, I simply couldn’t afford them. Five years later, I looked into them again (I guess I’m just stubborn). Lo and behold, there were vastly more options available, for far less money than I expected. After a couple of weeks of reading the forums and studying up on what might work for me, I picked up a cheap plastic handle mod and a couple of different vaporizer units (a tank and a cartomizer). It was a revelatory experience. From the first puff, my cravings were gone. I picked up a better mod (Vamo V2), decided I liked the tanks the best (Innokin iClear) and started mixing my own liquid to get the strength I like. All in all, I’m spending a tiny fraction of what I was on analogs. Now, after 6 months of not smoking, I don’t miss it at all. My senses of taste and smell are back, I don’t get winded anymore, I sleep better, I don’t cough and hack in the shower every morning, I don’t stink like stale smoke all the time and my friends and family have stopped giving me crap about my bad habit. That’s my story, now check out all the other testimonials and see for yourself how these amazing devices are making the world a better place. Don’t let them get regulated out of existence.