II had smoked since 15 years old , for 18years I smoked up to a pack and a half a day. Near the end I was waking up every morning coughing until I got a headache , I weezed , I was always out of breath , and my circulation waas bad , hands constantly going numb. I had tried to quit many times ,the gum ,the patch , cold turkey , nothing lasted longer than two weeks of pulling my foricken hair out and then going back to smoking. Last year my wife and I became pregnant with our first child , I immediatly quit smoking cold turkey , it lasted two months. I was devistated , how could I be this weak. So a week before my child was born I switched to the blucig ecig , it worked immediatly . The quality of the kit was poor , and expensive , so I purchased an ego twist battery and a vivi nova tank . This made vaping cheaper, more interesting with flavors other than tobacco , and way more vapor. Currently its been 8 months , I tried a cigarrete a couple months ago and couldn’t stand it , when you vape flavors like watermelon bubblegum , its almost impossible to find tobacco any kind of wonderfull anymore haha. My coughing stopped after the first week of vaping , I can smell things so much better , food tastes better , no wheezing feel much healthier. Ecigs have truly changed my life , if they found out that they were wrong about tobacco and its perfectly healthy , id still be vaping as I enjoy it that much and am happy to know I’m not bringing harmfull tobbaco smoke around my child on my clothes and skin. Vaping does require a certain curtailing of the instantaneos gratification of tobbaco cigarettes , you must keep you’re batteries charged , and keep a stock of eliquid so as not to run out , that can be annoying compared to how readily available traditional cigareetes are .