Ever since I was a child I was looking up to my older brother since i did not ever have a father. At the age of around 9 I was taken from bed by him to hang out in his room with him and a friend of his at night. we would sit on the floor around an ashtray and smoke ciggs. I could not inhale this only happened once but that’s all it took. I was stealing my moms ciggs from then on because she left them everywhere around the house. I remember when i first learned to inhale i was practicing and then just like swallowed the smoke. I was convinced that this was how it was done and ran outside to show my brother. That was a real crazy time in my life for other reasons as well but i did not do this for long. In any case it was around the age of 14 when i was hanging around my own friends that asked me to smoke with them and I said I quit. But they insisted. And i was hooked from there. I would steal them from stores, my mom, friends parents, and more often then the rest i would find ashtrays in town that were full of half ciggs. As well as finding almost full packs and ciggs around town on the ground. It was full on smoking from there. Even though the times i would get beatings from my mom (and her boyfriends) and I was once choked out and beaten around the back yard (by her boyfriend at the time) for smoking, i could not stop. I even ended up in jail for steeling ciggs from cars and stores. I still could not stop. I went through hell all my childhood because of ciggs. There are other stories but for time i shaved them. It was not until I was around 20 that i started to quit. I would try with limited success. I have tried everything from nicotine gum, patches, mouth spray, other smoking herbs, cold turkey, and then one day i was hanging out with a friend whom had just got this e-cigg thing. I had tried it and it just burned my throat. So i but it aside. Then later on the more i tried it from my friends e-cigg, the better it tasted in my throat. We started getting this cigg style e-ciggs. He actually made the cut off. I was not able to give up the real deal so I sat mine aside. Continuing to smoke while my friend vapped for two years with success on no real ciggs. Now at present day i am 29. I have found a new vaporizing style with e-liquid and metal coils to produce lots of vapor and a smooth throat hit. I use an Encore and an Ego T brand clearomizers with 48mg nicotine e-liquids. I have many of flavors available and i love the gummy bear. I will use any flavor but the thing is you can mix and match and do what MG you want at any time. This E-cigg phenomenon is GREAT! I have now cut back on ciggs a massive amount from a pack a day to 1-5 ciggs a week. And that is because i have to be around all kind of people who smoke right in my face. It is still hard but, i love the way my lungs are not so heavy and i don’t wheeze. Much less phlegm and illnesses. As a matter of fact, i went to rehab two years ago and had my first physical in 9 yrs. I was fine, even from smoking all those years. I do not have any illnesses and feel great. And I op to keep it that way. That was my only doc visit in 11 yrs now. 🙂