Where do I start….at the beginning works. When I was 15 I started smoking because of my friends and the Marlboro Man and stupidity. I continued to smoke through High School and College and really into my career in Public Safety, both Police and Fire. I used cigarettes to decompress from events and situations and was involved in. After concluding my career I open Medical Supply companies where I supplied my clients with Wheel Chairs, Hospital beds and home oxygen. For another 20 years I watched people die an horrible deaths because of smoking combustible cigarettes. I watch both my Grand Parents and my Parents die because of cigarettes and I could not stop smoking. I tried off and on and just could not get away from cigarettes. I tried Nicotine gum, Chantix and could not get way from cigarettes. In early 2013 at my wife’s constant persuasion, cleaned that up, I went to see a Doctor because I was exhausted all the time. I made it a practice to see a Doctor as little as possible but this time I could not escape my wife’s encouragement. To make this story short a few days later I received 2 stints in my coronary arties. One was blocked 96% and the other 98%. My Cardiologist told me the tar in the cigarettes contributed greatly to the occlusions. He told me I had to stop smoking. This is when I tried Chantix….that stuff is not for me. I smoked more using that mood altering crap than I did before. So I tried gum, the patch and my Wife’s constant encouragement and successfully cut down to 1 pack per day….not bad from 2 to 3 packs a day. 6 months after my first 2 stints I was back in the Cathe Lab getting my 3rd stint. This time I was only blocked in 1 artery and it was only blocked 96%. Again my Doctor told me I had to stop smoking that diet alone was not going to work. 6 months later I was once again back with another blocked artery and now I have 4 stints. When I woke up I asked my wife find a E-Cig for me. That was the last time I smoked a combustible cigarette. I am not going to lie the flavor was horrible, tobacco flavor. When I got home I went on line and researched e-Cigs and flavors. I ordered one with a refillable tank and a creamy desert flavor. I ordered it overnight shipping because the tobacco flavor was so nasty to me. I am now 3 days past my last stint when the new flavor arrived and that was it for me. I have not had a cigarette or a craving for a cigarette in almost 8 years. I have been back in the Cathe Lab twice since my last stint and I am clear, no additional blockage. Let me be clear, it was cigarettes that did this to me, I have not changed my diet or really been very active in 10 years. Just cutting out cigarettes will save so many lives. I just don’t understand why so many organizations like American Heart and American Lung do not support Vaping. I no longer support them!