My sister has asthma and COPD, she is now on oxygen and can’t even move around the house without major breathing problems. Our father was also asthmatic and had lung cancer, the doctors removed part of his lung and he beat the cancer, only to pass about a year later due to a heart attack. I am 11 years younger than my sister and I too am asthmatic with COPD. I was having to do breathing treatments as needed as well as carry an inhaler with me where ever I went. Add to that I have acid reflux, which put me in a catch 22, as the asthma meds cause the acid to flair up, but the acid makes the breathing problems worse. Like everyone else in my family I was a smoker. Had been since I was 14 years old. By the time I started vaping I had been up to 3 packs a day for the last 10 years. The more I smoked the worse I felt, the worse I felt the more I smoked. I didn’t want to be like my sister or my dad, and I knew I needed to do something. I had tried Wellbutrin, it helped for the 2 weeks I took it, but made me miserable because I didn’t sleep for more than 30 minutes a night that whole 2 weeks. Tried the patches, I have an allergy to the glue used on them. Gum and lounges didn’t work for me, simply because I was use to getting up and first thing I did was light a smoke and get my coffee, I couldn’t have my coffee while using those, so would wind up smoking instead. I had tried one of the gas station e-cigs, but it wasn’t strong enough to help. I was at my wits ends tho and was talking to my boyfriend at the time about it. I told him I didn’t know what else to do and was thinking about buying one of the cig look alikes from walmart and just forcing myself through it. He stopped me and started talking to me about some of the options with vaping, he had vaped for a while and loved the inferno he had gotten from volcano. His next payday he ordered me the same set up. That was April of 2012, October of 2012 I had a doctors appointment and there was a student with my doctor. They listened to my lungs and they where amazed at how clear they sounded. Since last April I have needed my inhaler 2 or 3 times, and have not needed a single breathing treatment. I have since moved on from the inferno, I currently use a Provari and an Empire Mod, when I started I needed the 24 mg e-juice tho I have naturally reduced that to 12 over time. I may go lower just depends on what my body tells me.