Hi, My name is Mike Summerlin and I am 36 years old with an 8 year old son. Married, 3 dogs, all that. I smoked cigarettes, full flavor Camels and unfiltered Lucky Strikes, for 20 years (started by stealing my mom’s) without a break. Coughing, hacking in the morning and the middle of the night, unable to jog more than 50 yards, hating stairs and anything beyond strolling at a calm pace. I have tried to quit 7 times in total over the last 5 years or so. Nicotine patches gave me nausea, nicotine gum gave me nausea, Chantix gave me psychotic dreams (that made me smoke to get over the terror), cold turkey, weaning myself off, dipping/chewing, pipe smoking (no inhaling). Nothing worked. I’ll have my wife write one of these too, she’s done it all as well, same age, same story. She quit the same day I did. Same story. The day I got my first eGo battery and Kanger Protank 2, and Orange Dream e-liquid, was the last day I smoked. October 14th, 2013. It is now November 18th. Not. One. Cigarette. This was accomplished without cravings, without nausea, without crazy psychedelic drug induced nightmares. I simply don’t smoke anymore. No drama. I recently purchased a mod called a MVP, that is more customizable, and a larger battery for the hiking/camping trips I’m now able to plan because I can carry a backpack and walk…and breathe. Why did this work? The warm vapor, the habit of fiddling with something, hand habit, mouth habit, the motion is like smoking. What no one is mentioning is the fact that the awesome flavors you can use with an e-cig is pivotal to remaining a non smoker. I took a drag of a real cigarette about a week ago and got an instant headache, and it took 20 minutes to get the taste out of my mouth. The taste is terrible, and is the reason I KNOW I’m done with them. It is the Flavor and the habitual movements that make this stuff work. This is a better alternative, and you can downgrade your nicotine levels all by yourself! Let the market work! I am now down to 6mg (started at 24, to 12, now to 6) nicotine e-juice and am feeling GREAT! Better than I have ever felt as an adult. Remember, I started smoking cigarettes when I was 16. I am getting out of the house more, starting jogging (For Fun!), playing with my dogs and son more. It’s really unexplainable how much better my life is, due to this little invention. It is my belief that the unregulated manner of e-cig’s is what made the huge market we have today. Over regulation of flavors and manufacturing processes will kill this amazing industry and take away the beneficial aspects e-cigs have on non smokers everywhere. Studies have been done, and the information is there for the perusal. If you have to, do your own government mandated studies on e-juice and see what you find out. I believe it is an industry whose time has come, and the main sticking points will be lobbyists from Big Tobacco trying to out money the little guy and try to keep the corner market, so they can overcharge for a substandard product like they already do. Please, please consider all the great stories you’ve read. Realize we are people that have used this technology to quite probably save our lives. To kill this through ignorance would be catastrophic. Do your tests, honestly, and make sure it’s safe. Then LEAVE IT ALONE. Sincerely, Mike Summerlin Arkansas Ex-smoker