I am 54 years old and started smoking when I was 13. I have been smoking an average of a pack (20 cigarettes)a day since I was 17. Over the last six years I have tried repeatedly to quit smoking and have tried Wellbutrin, Chantix, Nicotine patches, nicotine inhalers, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges. All with absolutely no success. In fact, until I learned to hide the Chantix package from view I smoked more while using that drug as seeing the package made me think about smoking, thus triggering the urge. With ALL of these methods the longest I was able to refrain from smoking was less then a day, though I did struggle and hold myself to two or three cigarettes a day for a few days until I gave up. And after having a mild heart attack in 2007 I TRULY desired to quit smoking as I fully knew the consequences. In June of 2013 I bought a better quality E-cigarette from my local tobacco vendor along with a two week supply of tobacco. Specifically an eGo CE4. The NEXT day I smoked a total of three cigarettes. Not because I was trying to avoid smoking, but because I more or less forgot to smoke as the E-cigarette was so satisfying. I went from smoking at least 20 cigarettes a day to two or three literally overnight. And stopped smoking cigarettes altogether within a week. This was while I still had nearly two cartons of cigarettes sitting there at home. The Electronic Cigarette provided an alternative method of fulfilling my addiction to nicotine while giving the full spectrum of habitual practices. The physical act of smoking. The feel of inhaling (though now a vapor instead of actual smoke). Without this superior alternative to cigarettes I fully expect I would have continued smoking tobacco until it killed me. Thank you for hearing my experience and please consider fully supporting this method of harm reduction as a means for life long smokers to find a way to eliminate the worst damage that smoking tobacco causes.