I smoked for 25 years and never thought I would be able to quit. I tried patches, gum, Chantix and nothing seemed to help me knock smoking cigarettes. The longest I went was about 3 months and then right back to smoking. This year(2013) January 3 was may 46th birthday and I bought my first electronic cig from a local retail shop. I was skeptical but hoped it would help. Glad to say I have been smoke free since. I started out with 18gm level of nicotine at first and I am now down to 12mg of nicotine. I feel this has saved my life.. I can breath better and I don’t wake myself up at night anymore coughing. The days of coughing up all that nasty stuff, ashes, stinky smell, and lots of $$$ from smoking are gone. I wish I would have had this years ago. I was a hard core smoker so If I can quit anyone can with this method. It worked so well for me I got my entire family that smoked to purchase one as well and now they are all smoke free too!!!!!!!!!! MY dad that smoked for about 55 years is now smoke free and is on a 0mg level after just 4 months. I am so happy that is available for the public. WE are adults and if this is what we chose we should have the right to do so.. I made an educated choice to switch on the fact that cigarettes are known to cause cancer, THIS WE KNOW, and without all the harmful carcinogens in my ecig I know I have made a great decision. I will be glad when they can tell us all the facts we would like to know about the ecig affects. But for me and my family we know it has to be better that smoking. Vaping has only 4 components in not 4000 like cigarettes This product is not only helping people quit smoking but it is creating jobs all across the world. I do understand one thing….Big tobacco is losing money and so will the pharmaceutical company’s…less cancer so less medicine.. Come on people use common sense about the government wanting to control the ecigs Am I against research on the ecig? NO WAY.. that way we can all be informed about the truth.. Thanks Happy Vaping