I've been a smoker for over 25 years. I curse the day I picked the first cigarette up and lit it, but have been unable to kick the habit in all these years. It's more than a habit with me..I enjoy the smell of a freshly lit cancer stick, the feel when it hits my throat, and the rush the first smoke of the day gives me.

About 2 months ago, we painted the inside of the house in preparation to sell it. My wife and I both smoked inside the home. Prior to painting, we scrubbed the walls and ceilings, and what I saw was a wake up call to me. The yellow film was impressive from 4 years of smoking. The smell and color of the cleaning solution and water that we used was impressive...yellow-brown and smelled like a wet ashtray. Since painting, indoor smoking was stopped.

During my latest visit to Ohio, I met up with some friends that have been smoking as long as me. When I began to light up, one of them handed me an e-cig...and eGo-T brand setup that you fill with a liquid of your choice. It was explained that with these e-juices, as they are called, the second hand smoke issues aren't there, and that the other chemicals related to smoking illnesses are much, much lower than with smoking or chewing tobacco. One friend handed me a Krave brand pack of 5 e-cig, which equals a carton of regular cigs, and told me to give it a try (She works as a marketer for Speedway and gets them for free). I went 4 days without a real cig!!

My wife and I discussed it, and both of us decided to purchase a eGo-T starter kit for each of us, as well as some e-juice. I called around to my friends and found out that we all basically grew up with the owner of the region's largest mixer and distributor of e-juice. I made a call and set an appointment to meet with her. During our coffee meeting, she handed me a number of samples of different flavors she mixes, as well as some more nationally popular brands. I was amazed at the fact that some juices can contain nicotine, and others can be only flavor. By the end of the meeting, she had given me enough e-juice to last at least a year for the average "Vaper", as a gift.

Since 3/22/2014, I have not had a single cigarette, nor the desire to light one. I was rolling my own cigarettes for the past 5 years, and still have a pound of my tobacco, and another of my wife's, as well as 10 boxes of tubes. I'm not quite confident enough yet to trash them, but I'm gaining on it.

My wife and I are both addicted to nicotine...that much we know. We know we will always be addicts to this, and that nothing will change that. But, since changing over to this, neither of us have a desire to go back. We aren't coughing as bad as we were, and we don't smell like an ashtray.

Now, most doctors wont say this is a healthy alternative, but they will agree that you're inhaling much less bad stuff than with a regular cig. One of my friends from the aforementioned group is a doctor that highly recommends this over the regular cig. He said that the worst thing you are getting is the nicotine...but stopped short of saying that it is healthy, only stating that it is healthier than normal smoking.

Does anyone else here do this yet?? If so, what are your favorite flavors, and do you prefer with or without nicotine? I'm mixing about a 75/25mix of both, giving me less nicotine. By next month, I hope to make it 50/50, then down to 25/50 the month after that. My overall goal is to remove the nicotine completely, vaping only the flavor of a real cig without the harmful stuff.

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