My first cigarette was given to me when I was about seven years old, at the age of 9 I began stealing them from my family members and at 11 I was smoking on a regular basis buying them at a little store close to my school with my lunch money I would save up for a couple days. I am 34 years old now and have in the past tried the gum and patches neither worked (the patch was better than the gum for me) I purchased an e-cig from a gas station I frequent on the way to work after quitting smoking had been on my mind for some time do to my lungs feeling as if they were stuffed with cotton from the many years of smoking. I still had one half pack and an unopened pack of smokes that I only smoked when I was charging the battery on the e-cig. just before I finished my last pack I bought another e-cig so I could have one charged at all times and after the last tobacco cig was smoked I never looked back. I now have three e-cigs and a MOD and I smoke them less than I did tobacco. I have been smoking so long that I never knew what it felt like to not smoke so being able to breath and have more stamina is like having a new life as if I received a new body, if this form of smoking cessation is outlawed it will be because of ignorance on the part of law makers. or money and big tobacco lobbyists.