Introduction

I've been a smoker since I was 13, I'm 38 now. So if you do the math, that means I've been smoking 25 years.
I don't have any horror stories to tell about smoking. My parents smoked, my grandparents smoked, but my grandfather's cancer was because of chemicals dumped in Vietnam (he was a military adviser) and my grandmother and mother didn't die of cancer. My father is 61, and pretty healthy too. He is missing part of a lung from being born premature, but the rest of his lungs are pretty sound even though he's smoked since he was 12.
I'm sorry. I know, everything about smoking says I should tell you how someone I loved died a horrible painful death from it, and I know lots of people have. But that's not my personal experience and that's what this blog is supposed to be about. My personal experience.
I do want to quit. I've been trying for the last 14 years. I've been able to almost quit, but I've never quite been able to kick. Currently I smoke one of the lightest cigarettes on the market, and have for 13 years. I have no problems going a few hours without a cigarette when I'm busy doing something else and that makes me think at this point, I'm more hooked on the ritual of it, the movement and the habit of it than the nicotine and tar. I really don't want to try patches and gum because they have a lot more nicotine than I'm used to, and I did try sucking lollipops, straws, all sorts of alternatives.
Enter the electronic cigarette. Called vaping by people who "smoke" them, they are a rechargable battery,atomizer, and cartridge with fluid. The battery heats the fluid which creates a vapor the atomizer allows you to inhale. You can get the cartridges (called carts by people who use them) in varying nicotine strengths. Again, all of them stronger than my current brand of cigarettes. The cartridges and the juice to refill them come in a lot of flavors too. The base fluid is propylene glycol (pg) or vegetable glycerin (vg). Propylene glycol is what's used in a lot of fog machines, so if you've ever been in a haunted house or a good rock concert, you've inhaled pg
vapor. Vegetable glycerin is used in baking and candy making. So whatever else comes out about electronic cigarettes, it's probably a whole lot less harmful to your health than cigarettes are.
After reading a lot of reviews on E-Cigarette Forum and watching some reviews on youtube, I finally decided that for my first e-cigarette, I'd order the Vapor King manual kit. So that's been ordered, just a couple hours ago. I'll let you know when it arrives and what I think of it. I ordered it with vanilla and coffee cartridges with 0 nicotine.