Smoked ~42 years
Never planned to quit again after multiple tries failed.
Then I had health issues that ended up with my hands bad enough that I was dropping lit cigarettes on me, on the furniture, on the floor, etc. and I had to quit before I set myself or the house on fire. (Then 3 months later had a chimney fire that totaled the house.)
I was lucky enough to find ECF before I spent any money and asked about what might work for someone with wonky hands.
I ended up getting two Innokin VV v3s a Kanger Unitank (basically a top fill protank) and some evods, etc.
Started at 18 mg which sort of worked, but didn't quit all the way until I got 26 mg.
MTL then and still.
Over the last 3 years I tried a number of 'bigger and better' setups, but they never worked well with my hand problems. Somewhere in there I found the Anyvape Davide clearo, and liked the airy draw.
I did start DIY liquid, and am now mixing at ~16-18 mg. I tried cutting back, but that didn't work out for me.
I ended up as a confirmed tootle-puffer, so my stockpile for the vapocalypse is a bunch of VV v3s and a bunch of Davides and a couple of liters of nicotine. I'm also stocking up on the protank coils that the davide uses. I doubt I'll be any good at making coils, but I've got a jig and am getting some more wire just in case, and am trying to pick an RTA that's easy to use.
And a drawer full of the 'bigger and better' mods, and my protanks, mini-protanks, evods and other experiments as additional backup.