I had been trying to quit smoking to no avail since I was 27 (aka since 1995).. I tried all manner of methods; from drugs to patches and even hypnosis - all ended in failure although I kept trying.
By 2007 they put a scope down my throat and was told by my doctor that my throat was covered in precancer cells and that if I wanted to live and not eventually die from cancer I needed to quit smoking.
I gave an extremely sincere effort once more and failed again. I was so addicted I couldn't even quit to save my life, and so I resigned myself to an early grave.
Then in 2013 we moved and by then I could no longer breathe. My lips were turning blue from just doing simple housework and I couldn't make it all the way to the mailbox without rest breaks.
Now I was terrified because I felt like I was suffocating while still alive.. it was the most scared I ever was.
By then I had heard of
vaping, so I went to the doctor to ask her opinion of vaping for smoking cessation.. She was well educated on the topic and told me I was the perfect candidate for trying vaping, and she said it was far less harmful than smoking..
So with my doctors support and encouragement I got on eBay and spent 10.00 on a little kit paid 5 dollars for a little bottle of juice and determined to make a go of it (but I wasn't investing much in case it was just one more money pit.. lol)
The day I got all that in the mail was it.. I stopped smoking and made a clean switch to vaping - much to my amazement! A 32 year addiction finally over..
My breathing improved so much that I can't even remember a day when I could breathe so well as I can now.. vaping literally saved my life.
It was a game changer for me.. for real.
I may someday find those precancer cells turn cancerous, and/or the COPD I got from smoking will eventually get the better of me - but I have a new lease on life and the ability for a few happy and healthy years before that day comes.

So what can I say about vaping? That it saved my life, at the very least restored to me a quality of life that I had forgotten even existed..
I'm free!
Now if kitty would give back my Luna:
Then life would be complete!
hahaha