Has anybody tried eCigs?
I'm not a smoker but curious about them.
When they first came out and no one knew about them it was fun to troll restaurants and businesses by using them indoors. Otherwise, useless IMO.
I managed to ditch cigarettes for about six months by using them, but ultimately fell off the bandwagon. There was no real excuse for why I did that. 
I did the same. Electronic cigarettes inspired my first longer term quit attempt. I was so excited when I bought my first kit that I smoked the remainder of my "analog" cigarettes just so I could move on to electronic cigarettes.
At first, the uncomfortable wave of lacking a "real" cigarette was easily bypassed by using the electronic one. I was confident and happy, although I cannot deny it was a psychological adjustment.
And then the Victorian government cracked down on e-cigs. Before smoke shops and small market stalls were selling genuine nicotine-containing cartridges that had enough nicotine that I was able to survive cheaply using e-cigs and completely avoid cigarettes. After they cracked down I had a lot of anxiety finding cartridges that had nicotine. Sometimes they would be marked as containing the drug but then, the more I had to search, the taste and performance of the cheap plastic cartridges would disappoint in every possible way. All that the government cracking down on them did was put me in a desperate state I wasn't prepared for that normal cigarettes were the only way out of. I could have quit normally, yes - but I should not have had to at that point. I was already healthier. I could have done it in time. The failure is all mine but the motivation and opportunity for that failure could have been avoided easily.
The lack of a reliable alternative in e-cigs led me to try smoking normally again. From there it was a gentle but predictable slide into the habits that made me try e-cigs in the first place.
The last time I went stateside I bought some newer packages that didn't exist here and I was very much impressed by them. But, well, since I had already failed and gone back to normal cigarettes, they never quite cut the mustard. And it wasn't until now that I tried nothing at all.
Anyway, if you're an American and have the means, e-cigs are fun and interesting and not as dangerous as normal cigarettes.. Just don't ever go from electronic cigs to anything else. Real tobacco is a pain in the ass.
As for my quit attempt: I've nearly completed two days. Day two has been easier than day one even though the frequency of intense cravings is supposedly higher. If I can power through tomorrow then the supposed worst is over and gradually normalcy will occur. The smells I've been missing out on have completely blindsided me. I remember my sense of smell being much stronger after my last quit attempt but this time, for whatever reason, the intricate odours that I was missing in everyday air before have completely floored me. Clean air is amazing.
