I am a 34 year old man who began smoking when I was in the 7th grade, not long after my grandmother died from emphysema. My parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles, all of the adults in my life smoked. I tried quitting a number of times over my 20 years of smoking. I used gym, patches, pills, tried quitting cold turkey, yet nothing worked. The longest I went during those 20 years, when I tried to quit was about 12 hours. I couldn’t do it. Those I was closest to wanted nothing to do with me, because I was going through withdrawal and was angry. I tried a cigarette style e cig, and it helped but wasn’t really doing the job. A couple years later I tried another and it worked well enough for a week or so. The problem was the batteries kept dying, so I would buy a pack of cigarettes if I wasn’t near a charger. Then a co-worker pointed me toward mods. I went from smoking 2 packs a day to smoking 1 pack over a week, without making any serious effort to quit. I was getting the nicotine my body was craving, in a way that was very similar to what I was used to, without withdraw symptoms, in fun and yummy new flavors! After the first week I decided that I wasn’t buying anymore cigarettes, and for the most part that’s been true. I have found myself in a few situations over the past year and a half where my battery died, didn’t bring enough juice, or had other issues and a purchased a pack of cigarettes. But that had happened only 5 times, and I didn’t even smoke the whole pack, only smoked until I was able to resolve my issue. Cigarettes taste terrible and make me feel worse than I remembered. Now that I’ve been vapeing for a while, I can breathe again, I can do things without getting winded, an I can taste food! I began vapeing at 36mg of nicotine, I’m now down to 12mg, with plans to drop down to 8 within the next couple weeks. I have converted many of the smokers in my life to vapeing, and they’ve been able to quit too! I think the best part of vapeing is that out has brought me closer to my family. I have an aunt who is extremely allergic to smoke. If she smells it, she gets a headache, if she’s exposed to second hand smoke she needs an inhaler. So obviously we couldn’t spend too much time together. Since I started vapeing, she can sit right next to me while I’m vapeing and has ZERO issues. If I wasn’t able to vape using a mod, I’d still be a smoker, if I lose the ability to vape I will be one again. John Peters 34, Illinois