My name is Vickie Martin and I smoked for almost 40 years. I started smoking as a teenager because it was cool looking and quickly became addicted to tobacco. I’m ashamed to say that I smoked, although I did try to quit, during two pregnancies, one of which was unsuccessful. I remember clearly that my husband said during my pregnancy that I wouldn’t quit smoking even if I knew it would kill the baby. My firstborn son did die and although the doctors said it had nothing to do with smoking I never forgot that I smoked while I was pregnant with him. This addiction held me all through my adult life. I was sick all the time either with chronic bronchitis or sinus drainage, couldn’t even laugh hard without going into a coughing spasm, and had pneumonia almost every single winter. Still I couldn’t quit. I tried patches and they made me ill and shaky. I tried gum and it was just disgusting. I tried Chantix and it made me crazier than when I tried cold turkey. Nothing worked and I had given up on even trying to quit. Then I was diagnosed with COPD. My 7 year old granddaughter called me crying and said she was worried about me and didn’t want me to die. That prompted me to again try something. I tried Blu cigalikes first. Messy, expensive, leaky, and nasty tasting. They were a hassle to keep up and I was spending more money on them than I was on smoking. And they didn’t satisfy the craving and I went back to cigarettes. A friend of mine runs a little store and she was using and selling Ego batteries and c4 clearos and she’d been very successful at quitting smoking that way so I decided to try it. After two weeks of vaping I threw the cigarettes away and have never looked back! I no longer use the Ego batteries and clearos as I have graduated to other methods of vaping but I never even crave a cigarette anymore. Don’t even think about them. My cardio pulmonary doctor is absolutely amazed at the difference in my lung function and oxygen levels. I no longer wheeze when I talk or laugh, no longer cough up garbage, my teeth are whiter, I smell better and feel better than I have in years. I have a hardening in the major abdominal artery that the cardiologist was going to stent until he found out I quit smoking. He said if I never smoke again it will never get worse and to Vape On! in his own words. And this is a well renowned cardio-pulmonary surgeon who said this. All of my doctors are so amazed and pleased. My last doctor appointment the doctor shook his head and laughed and said I guess I’ll see you next year. Vaping saved my life and I don’t even have to read the testimonials to know how many stories there are just like mine. As a government BY the people and FOR the people, how could you even consider trying to keep us from vaping? I am alive, 60 years old, and have a better quality of life than I ever had before because vaping got me away from cigarettes. It is a true miracle.