I have been using ecigs successfully for FOUR YEARS!! I’m so thrilled they were invented. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, else worked for me despite many efforts. At various times I tried patches, gum, medication, and even the Nicotrol inhaler. I smoked for almost 35 years. I knew I had to stop somehow but those methods didn’t work for me and for the short time they did, I was horribly depressed. I used the ecig along with real cigs while I was quitting. It still took me almost a year to totally put down the real cigs forever. I am so glad I did! My breathing immediately got better. I could hike and walk uphill without being winded. No more bad smells. No more social outcast as is becoming more and more the case. My skin, teeth, hair, everything, saw immediately improvement. No more morning cough. I feel that ecigs undoubtedly saved my life. Cancer or at the least, emphysema would surely have followed if I’d continued smoking. Why does the FDA try so hard to shut down something that is saving lives? Nicotine itself isn’t that bad or not much worse than a cup of coffee. Nicotine is not the devil; in fact, it’s being used to treat dementia, among other things. I get the feeling some people just can’t even abide the APPEARANCE of smoking and thus are harsh on ecigs with nothing to back them up except their own hatefulness and anti-smoker vitriol. If the FDA REALLY cared about saving lives they’d be publicizing ecigs as an alternative to smoking. If more people knew about them, more people would try. I have introduced many people to ecigs! How can you support giving methadone to drug addicts but trying to withhold ecigs from smokers? It doesn’t even make sense. Unless you’re going to be helpful (which seems doubtful), please just let us e-smokers alone! Thank you!