When I was way younger, I’d never would have thought that I was going to become so addicted to something that I swore back in the elementary school D.A.R.E program, I would never ever touch in my life. I hated the fact that almost everyone in my family smoked. I would always guilt my parents with the typical If you love me, you’d stop smoking. When I started smoking at fourteen and a half (unbeknownst to my parents of course) I wasn’t pressured into, no one forced me to do it. I just did it to rebel, and go against the whole Don’t smoke if you want to be cool!. When I was fifteen, still young a very naive, I found it easier and easier to get cigarettes. By this time my parents found out, and being the angsty, and rebellious teenager I was I just kept smoking. By my sophomore year I was already smoking a pack a day. Going forward to my senior year of high school I had no intention of quitting. By the second semester of my senior year vaping became all the rage. I was curious, but I still had no intent on trying something else. I wanted my cowboy killers, and nothing else. My mother had actually started vaping before I did. I was surprised, my mom wasn’t really tech-savvy and she never went out and tried new things. But she was sick of smoking, after twenty years she had cut down from a two packs a a week to five cigarettes a month. My mother had found a vapor store she had really liked, and she wouldn’t go any where else. My mother wanted me to see, and try it out. unwillingly I went. I went it to the store and tried it out. I was in love! smoking inside with no smell, and no horrible after taste? Now as a nineteen year old, who now works at Lifestyle Vapor. My life has improved greatly! I can taste things without putting salt on it. I can keep up with friends while playing basketball. I saw my parents try all sorts of quitting cessations, and fail miserably. I knew those would never work for me. I’m glad I found something that was, and still is working for me. I’ve been cigarette free for almost two months. Its been a fight along the way, but I’m not going to give up. I’m passionate about this, its not something I just want to fit in with a fad. This is something I want to do, so I won’t ever smoke a cigarette again. Should there be regulation in the E-cigarette industry, yes. Should people over eighteen be the only ones allowed to use E-cigarettes, YES! But the argument that E-cigarettes are marketed towards children is absurd. Where was the argument about cigarettes when I first sparked up a cigarette? Where was the argument when children of my generation had there first argument? I want to be able to use my E-cigarette as an adult with free choice, so I don’t have to go back to cigarettes, or cheap made foreign made cigalikes. I’m an adult, I have the right to choice, and I’m never going back to cigarettes, or cessation products that don’t work for me!