I started smoking cigarettes when I was 16 years old. I smoked a pack a day for 16 years and never once tried to quit. When I was 32 I bought an electronic cigarette after reading a recommendation in a thread on AR15.com. I smoked that electronic cigarette for three months, and during that time I didn’t smoke a single cigarette. Then I quit using the electronic cigarette and was nicotine free for 3 years. Then I started a new job where everyone there smoked cigarettes, and I started smoking cigarettes too, first just one a week, then one a day, then I just bought a pack so I wouldn’t have to bum them from coworkers. After I realized I was becoming a smoker again, I bought another electronic cigarette, and have been using that exclusively for the last year. There is no question that without the electronic cigarette I would be a cigarette smoker. Even if electronic cigarettes are not good for you, they are much better for you.