I fought with quitting smoking for almost 40 years and felt pretty horrible toward the end of my time smoking. After ten years into smoking, I really did not want to be a smoker anymore but I could not quit. Gum, patches, chantix, bupropion – nothing worked for longer than a couple of months. I felt hopeless for a long time that nothing would ever change until I started vaping. The last couple of years of my smoking I started doing a lot of research about what was actually in manufactured cigarettes that make them so addictive and I could not believe the evil involved. I couldn’t believe what they had done to me all those years keeping me a slave to those things. I stopped beating myself up and realized I wasn’t weak at all. I realized I was addicted to a very powerful and insidiously designed substance the tobacco companies had changed and made more addictive over a 100 years. It was then I knew if I was going to quit I was going to war with my own brain chemistry and it wasn’t going to happen overnight. I knew I had to wean myself off the cigarettes and it was going to be as hard as changing a blood pressure medicine or an addictive pain killer if it was going to work. It took many months for me to figure out the right mix of very low nicotine and flavors to completely quit and I’m extremely grateful for vapor for helping. It will take me another year to lower my nicotine level to zero but that is my goal. To me anyone that is lobbying against e-cigs is flat out in bed with the tobacco companies (and government bodies that wants to tax vapor like the cigarettes). I know now the manufacturing of cigarettes is a legalized, regulated and criminal addictive drug empire that needs to be shut down. An ecig you can walk away from because you know whats in it. You can use natural herbs and change habits to get off them or use no nicotine at all. The tobacco companies wont tell you what your addicted to so you cant figure out how to get off of them without being sick for a month and this is why the government needs to leave the ecigs alone. They need to let us get healthy without being taxed to get healthy. I do feel better using ecigs but the thing I appreciate the most is not being a bitch anymore to a smelly, nasty, burning, disgusting thing I have to run outside to consume every hour to keep myself from chewing my knuckles off to suck into my lungs anymore to feel normal.