I snuck my first cigarette when I was a young teenager. My parents were both smokers, so I’d hoped that they wouldn’t be able to tell. My conscience got the best of me and I laid off until I was a junior or senior in college. Then, I started buying a pack of cigarettes here and there and would smoke when I was walking between classes (praying the entire time that nobody would see me because I was embarrassed to be caught smoking.) After college I laid low for a while, but then found myself bumming smokes from my friends, especially when we were out having drinks. Little by little, I was smoking more and more a day. My friends all smoked, so it was nothing to be among them and smoking a pack or so a day. We’d always joke about If the price of cigarettes goes above $x.xx, we’ll quit. Yeah, right. About four years ago (2010), I’d met with a client who was puffing on this weird-looking cigarette – INDOORS! I asked him about it and he directed me to a US-based e-cigarette vendor. Intrigued, I went shopping and got myself a starter kit which included two cig-alike batteries, the recharging case (that looked and felt like a pack of cigarettes) and some of the flavor cartridges that sat upon the atomizer. Admittedly, these new-fangled electronic cigarettes were more of a novelty to me. I was still smoking regular cigarettes, but not *quite* as often per day while I played with the new e-cigarettes. Apparently, I was still missing something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. About a year later (2011), I was going to be traveling with a group of non-smokers for a week-long trip. I didn’t want to take any real cigarettes with me, so I stocked up on some fresh flavor cartridges and took my electronic device with me. I managed a whole week without a regular cigarette (although there were a number of times I had to go to designated smoking areas in order to use my e-cigarette.) However, I got home from my trip, and first thing I did was to buy another pack of cigarettes. Fast forward to 2013. My uncle had previously been diagnosed with lung cancer (he was a life-time pipe smoker.) This was the man who’d been like a father to me after my own father had died. To have watched him deteriorate in the last couple of months of his life had an impact on me – but I still kept smoking. Three months ago, I started digging back into the e-cig world. I went back to the site from which I’d made my initial purchase all those years ago. Decided to try a different route – I didn’t like the pre-filled cartridges, but there was this re-fillable cartridge in which I could put some e-liquid. I purchased a number of ZERO nicotine flavors and the refillable cartridges. Again, form over function still wasn’t quite what I hoped, as the batteries didn’t seem to last as long as I wanted, and refilling those little cartridges was becoming a bit of a pain. I NEVER contemplated the nicotine gum, patches, or most especially Chantix. I had heard stories from a couple of friends who tried Chantix, and the psychological side effects were scarier than the potential for lung cancer. I went back one more time to my on-line vendor (I had yet to do any real research on e-cigarette devices) and opted to upgrade to a more sophisticated device. A longer-lasting rechargeable battery and a tank that attached to the battery that would hold more juice than those little refillable cartridges. I was SO excited the day it arrived – so much so that I braved hazardous road conditions on what was basically a snow day to go to my office (where I’d opted to have this new e-cigarette kit delivered) just so I could try it out. I fumbled through its setup, but after a couple of false starts, I’d figured out how to use this new gizmo. I was taking it to work, and instead of braving sub-freezing temperatures to go outside to smoke, I was sitting in my warm office vaping instead of SMOKING. I would still smoke cigarettes here and there, but little by little, I was consuming fewer and fewer regular cigarettes. Within TWO WEEKS, I had purchased my last pack of cigarettes. Since March 10, 2014, I have not smoked, nor have I had the desire for a regular cigarette. I have acquired even more sophisticated equipment to enhance my vaping experience. I am regularly using very low-level nicotine (<6mg>