I was a 2 1/2 pack a day smoker for over 32 years and had tried countless times to quit. I tried the nicotine inhaler, nicotine gum, nicotine patch, two different strengths of Wellbutrin, and Chantix to try and quit only to go right back to smoking. After losing both my parents to cancer and in a last ditch effort, I started doing research on the electronic cigarette and bought my first cig-a-like kit in February 6, 2011 not really convinced even it would get me off of cigarettes. My kit arrived in the mail on February 9th along with a couple of bottle of 24mg e-liquid and I immediately started using it. I am pleased to say that on February 11, 2011 I smoked my last cigarette. I urge was still there but I really wanted this to work, so after a couple of weeks I upgraded to a mod and tank system and within a couple of months, the urge to smoke was completely gone. Over time, I have slowly reduced the amount of nicotine in my e-liquid from 24mg to 6mg at the current time and have a goal of eventually getting to 0mg and an overall goal of stopping vaping. While I was a smoker, I had shortness of breath, wheezed so bad when I laid down to sleep that my wife almost couldn’t sleep in the same bed, and woke up every morning with an terrible cough, and was on the verge of being put on high blood pressure medication. I would also get severe sinus infections at least 6 times a year. The worst part is that it was effecting my profession. Being a firefighter, I was finding it harder and harder to perform my duties. Within a couple of weeks after I started vaping and quit smoking, I started breathing better, no long wheezed all the time, and didn’t try to cough up a lung every morning. My sense of smell and taste also started coming back. A couple of years ago at my yearly fire department physical, the departments doctor told me I had the lungs of a non-smoker and is extremely pleased with the improvements in my overall health. Just yesterday I had to make a doctors appointment for a severe case of poison ivy and while doing so, it was brought to my attention that I had not been seen my family doctor in over three years and that I would be considered a new patient. And since he was not taking any new patients they would have to get approval. I contribute going from at least a dozen trips to the doctor per year to zero in over three years to the vaping technology and can proudly say that VAPING SAVED MY LIFE.