Hello my name is Tim, obviously. 🙂 I started smoking around 14 or 15. Small country town so small town attitude was never carded and stopped from purchasing at the gas station next to the high school so never had anyone try and stop me from purchasing. The following years I had actually quit smoking twice once for around a year next for about 18 months (all done cold turkey.), then something would happen and I would get a pack and back to smoking. Through basic and ait I smuggled in chewing tobaccos and corrupted others. Never really bothered me one way or the other and yeah had heard all the horror stories and risks involved and never really cared. Was locked up for a few years and rolled my own for most of that and shortly after being released went to smoking Camel non filters. My first year of a break from it I came back to my usual which were Marlboro reds. That was my past. I will be 42 in a couple months, overweight due to being lazy (round 260ish @ 5’9) and was being harassed by a friend of mine who had started vaping and of course first time I had seen her with her ego with a 6ml DCT on it I commented on her crack pipe. She usually just blew me off. My friend who had just moved to our state from Reno never really pestered me about tryin to switch but probably could have harassed me a lil more to get me to quit analogs sooner but I wont hold that against her. Has been a vapor for about a year and a half now so being around her made me research it a lil more than just a passing interest and started slowly turning my opinion of it. I had watched my dad struggling with tryin to quit over the last 5 years or so with those cigalikes even had one popular kit he had paid 120something on and failed repeatedly, so was at the why even bother stage and watching her slowly changed attitude towards e cigs. Feb. rolls around and tax time comes she spent the last lil bit of her tax check to buy me a starter kit and 3 bottles of juice. was a ego 900 and a CE5. Juices were 18mg and she showed up in my basement bunker and shoved the kit in my face and said Here, I used the last of the money I had to get you this you had better give it an honest effort. So, I did on the second day my wife looks at me and says yeah, those things really aren’t working for you are they? I guess I was giving her some attitude.. lol .. I think she called one of my best friends who showed up on the third day and handed me his ecig and said here, try mine. I hit it for a minute or two and got that morning cigarette rush, or the rush you get from not having one for 5-6 hours. Looked at him and said yeah, now this would work this is what I need. He had handed me his 24mg and I have been on that ever since. I can honestly say I wasn’t really interested in tryin to quit smoking. even after close to 30 years of smoking I was one of the lucky ones I guess that never had the smokers cough of course I would be scared to see what my lungs look like, but the appeal of a safer alternative to the tar and 5-6000 other chemicals was appealing. Since Feb. I have ordered juices from all over the place trying most everyone’s juice I can find. We as a group made several trips to B&M shops all around looking at different gears, set ups, and their juices. A few over 100 miles away. I quit my job as a Store Manager, and was sitting at home and the thought kind of hit me to start up a B&M and went to them and said Ya know, closest B&M to us is around 50 miles away, lets take a chance and open one up in my families jewelry store that’s sitting empty and give it a shot. I had actually just walked into their house said that.. then walked out and shut the door. Day or so later he came to my house and asked how much I needed to start this up. The two best things in my opinion that has come out of all of this adventure we have been having so far is I don’t have to worry near as much about my wife getting any second hand smoke from me (she is a double lung transplantee from cystic fibrosis), and my dad bought a starter kit from us and started getting juice at 18mg.. He bought his first 0mg bottle from us last Friday to see if he was ready to be off nicotine completely and even if he’s not he is down to 6mg now and the ego he is using has worked better for him than the cigalikes he had been trying and failing with. I have not had a cigarette since Feb 9th 2013 approximately. I can taste and smell again. Lung functions I can tell are starting to return to me. I can take deeper longer breaths. I can walk longer distances without getting as winded compared to a year or so ago. All round I feel better. Well, for what its worth there is my story. Tim