I come from a family that smoked and had tried cigarettes at the age of 5 years old but began smoking regularly at the age of 12. Even though my father let me try cigars to detour me from tobacco at a young age. I’m now 47 years old and had smoked nearly four packs of cigarettes a day during a short time period of a year but my general habit was about two packs a day over a period of more than 30 years. I hated cigarettes for the last 15 years of my habit and tried, nicotine patches, nicotine gum, dipping type tobacco, chew type tobacco, snuff tobacco, Chantix twice and many other products as stop smoking aides that were not even close to being as effective as electronic cigarettes have been. I have a very addictive personality and have battled alcohol and drugs addictions for years but nothing has been as hard to quit as cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have allowed me to be tobacco free for more than a year now and put an end to the last vice that was senselessly, painfully and slowly killing me. Since quitting cigarettes and using electronic cigarettes I breath easier, my stamina has increased greatly, I’m not getting sick as often, I don’t miss work as often due to illness, I don’t stink like cigarettes anymore, I’m not a walking fire hazard, my health insurance doesn’t cost as much being I’m a non-smoker, my house and vehicles don’t offend non-smokers like they did when I smoked because of the smell of cigarettes, dogs and cats don’t don’t make funny faces when they sniff my hands anymore and the benefits go on and on just for the fact that I use electronic cigarettes now.