I started smoking at 19. Almost 12 years later, I was up to at least a pack of analog cigarettes a day, sometimes 2 packs. I smoked at least a pack a day for 10 years and it dictated everything. I had to have a new pack on me before going to work, no matter how late stopping to buy one made me. At times I would smoke the entire pack while at work, leaving very little time to do actual work. I began finding it hard to even run half a mile. I tried an ecig once or twice about a year ago when a coworker bought one but it didnt feel the same. A month ago, while at the store, I saw someone buy a started kit for ecigs, I thought they were only sold online and impulse bought one. I have Always heard ecigs were cheaper in the long run and I kept with them mostly for that reason. I immediately cut back on analogs to half a pack a day and continued with it for two weeks before getting a better model. The continued smoking was more out of habit than an addiction as I went hours without a smoke and only smoked because I had them. Since quitting, I feel better, sleep better and have more energy. Ive never been a huge water drinker and still don’t drink a lot of water so my physical improvements can only be linked to everything else in cigarettes. I honestly feel if I stuck with the starter kit I bought, I would have went back to smoking, they claim one cartridge has the same nicotine as a pack of cigarettes but Found myself doing almost two cartridges a day plus half a pack, nowhere near the proposed savings advertised by a big tobacco owned ecigarette brand…. ive been smoke free for 3 weeks now and without e cigarettes and my other vaporizer model, I couldn’t have done it. I only vape where I would normally smoke and not as often, either.