I started smoking ciggarettes when I was 15. By the time I was 18, I was smoking a pack a day, and in my late 20’s, I was smoking 2+ packs a day. I had to have them. I chose ciggarettes over food when I was stuggling financially. Sometimes, I couldn’t pay my bills but I still found ways to pay for or get ciggarettes. There were times when i couldnt afford ciggarettes so I would take butts out of public ashtrays and roll up what was left to smoke (addiction does crazy things to you). I would wake up in the mornings, coughing up my lungs (most the time a black mucus), not even able to breathe, but would still suck down that cancer stick. Ciggarettes gave me headaches but I still smoked them. Sometime around my mid 20’s, I realized that they were litterally poisoning me and I made several attempts to quit. I tried everything I knew to do. Obviously I first tried to quit cold turkey. I never made it 24 hours. I tried Nicorette (the patches and the gum) without success. I was still smoking when I was using the Nicorette and was never able to stop smoking. I went to the doctor and got Chantix. It made me suicidal within the first week of taking it and I immediately stopped taking it (I later learned that suicide is (was) on its list of side effects which is crazy to me). I got a prescription for Wellbutrin but my insurance wouldn’t cover it for smoking cessation. I tried hypnosis. I sucked on cinnamon toothpicks. Nothing worked. I was convinced I was going to die of lung cancer and couldn’t do anything about it. A few months months ago, a friend told me she quit smoking using electronic ciggarettes. I didn’t think it would work for me, didn’t even want to try it, but the thought resinated in me till I gave it a shot. I found a pack of blu ciggs in a convinience store and immediately, within the first week, I was able to cut down to only a few ciggarettes a day. I couldn’t believe it. I wasnt totally happy with the blu so after online research, I purchaced a Joyetech eVic personal vaporizer (and I love it!). It took about another week to train my brain to not pick up a ciggarette after eating a meal (one big trigger for me), but within 2 weeks of trying electronic ciggarettes, I was completely smoke free. I even have a carton of cigga in my freezer that I have no desire to smoke at all. Ive been smoke free for