I started smoking when I was only 13, I came home from school one day and my dad ask me if I wanted to smoke, and then threw me a pack of cigarettes. At the time I wanted to be cool like my mom and dad and smoke so I said yes and lit one up….I had to hid it from my mom, she didn’t want me to smoke, but my dad regularly would buy my cigarettes for me and I would just go to the park beside our house and smoke, then come home….my mom didn’t find out tat I smoked until I was sixteen, and by then I was very addicted to them, and smoked almost a pack a day….we got in a huge fight, and finally she said that the only way she would let me smoke is if I got a job and started buying them myself….so I went out the very next day and got,my first job…..not to be independent, to keep smoking, I bought a carton a week. By the time I hit my 20s I was having trouble breathing, couldn’t run and hat when I really wanted to quit smoking….I tried the gum and the patched but with no luck nothing worked…,I couldn’t afford the pills, so I just gave up and kept smoking….I’m 30 now, and a few years ago I had one aunt pass away from COPD…then a year later my other aunt passed away from the same disease that took my other one the year before…I was literally watching cigarettes kill off my family. And there,was nothing I could do about it. My mom wet to the doctor and they told her that she had the beginning stages of COPD, so she quit smoking right then…,and that’s when I knew that is she could I could too…I found a little stick vapor in a store and I bought it and it helped my not smoke as many cigarettes. So I went up to something bigger, I have a sigelei 100w+ with only 3mg of nic in my juice, now and I can proudly say that I haven’t smoked areal cigarette in almost half a year. ….I can breath again, and I feel so much better….vapors worked were gum and patches didn’t….it feels so great to be called a non smoker, I haven’t been able to say that since I was 13.