I started smoking when I was 12, stealing 1st singles and then packs from my mom,step-dad and grandparents. By my early 20’s I was over a pack a day. Around age 30 I started trying to quit. I tried cutting down, patches on 3 occasions,chantix, the gum seems like there was something else. At 33 when I had a bad cold I had an x-ray taken of my lungs. My doctor told me the white lines I saw on the film were the beginnings of Emphysema. I tried another round of gum and patches to no avail. I was wheezing constantly. A simple cold would lay me up for a week, I had trouble sleeping due to coughing and a scratchy throat. I was VERY embarrassed that every where I went I was coughing up all kinds of stuff from my lungs. I hope this is not too much information, but it was either spit out what came up no matter where I was or end up with loose bowels. I was helping a good friend move in the fall of 2010. She was getting married and I was helping her move. I found her husbands ego dripping e-cig and asked about it. I dripped a few drops and loved it. For helping on the move I was given the Ego. Within a month I was totally off cigarettes and on the e-cig. I struggled for a bit to find the set up that worked for me the way I wanted it to, but finally ended up finding it and shortly after a better set up and then another lol. Now not only am I off cigarettes I have a cool new hobby. I have 2 variable voltage devices one 18490 battery the other 18650, 1 variable wattage device 18650 and 2 telescopic mechanical mods. I currently use 24mg juice and I feel so much better, breathe so much more deeply and have SO, SO much more energy the thought of cutting down my MG’s is not being considered. I currently use the Innokin iClear 30 as my tank and am just getting into rebuildable atomizer tanks. I use only American made juice from trusted vendors. Electronic cigarettes have changed my life. I feel like a new person. I have much more energy, can smell and taste better and feel like I have added years to my life. I had the flu during the last election that lasted over a week. My x-rays showed no signs of the white lines that my doctor showed me 2 and 1/2 years earlier. Please do not let the FDA and big tobacco change an industry I owe my life to.