I had been wanting to quit cigarettes for a long time and even though I could never justify a reason for smoking, I continued to do so. What really motivated me this time was not only the abundance of devices to choose from this time around, opposed to how the market looked just over a year ago. It is the fact that I'll be 31 on the 9th of this month (No bullshit, sorry if this seems cliche.) I started smoking when I was 15 years old and I realized I was legitimately pushing up on the ability to say that I had been smoking for more than half my life. That kinda resonated with me, along with the fact that cancer also has pretty dominant history on my mother's side of the family.
My grandmother smoked from around the same age until she was 38. She quit when I was born but it didn't really have much of an effect, 7 years later she went to the hospital and they misdiagnosed her with ulcers, she ended up developing tumors all over her body and eventually died 5 months later.
My mother started smoking when she was around 14 and ironically quit smoking not long after I started. She was driving me back to my father's house one day and jokingly offered me a cigarette during the car ride and I like and idiot took her up on it. She obviously knew I had been smoking because you can't really hide the smell but I guess she wanted to see it for herself. I took a cigarette and lit it up and watched the despair hit my mother's face as the joke backfired on her. I didn't really think much of it at the time but as I got older I understood her disappointment. She ended up developing thyroid cancer and had to have it removed not long after she quit, unlike my grandmother they didn't misdiagnose it this time.
Luckily I have friend who quit smoking about 5 years ago with the help of vaping which showed me that it definitely does work as an alternative for quitting. I just didn't get any fulfillment from the old ego/carto devices so it didn't stick for me like it did for him. However with all of the recent devices and tanks in the last year I eventually got into for real this time and it provided the much needed distraction as well as a much better experience to keep my mind off cigarettes completely during the transition. It'll be 4 months to the day on the 8th that I quit and so far it has been amazing for me. I just hope I didn't wait too long before doing irreparable damage considering my family's history with cancer.
All in all I no longer have a desire to smoke cigarettes and I no longer smell like an ashtray. I've been saving money after the initial transition and going a bit gear crazy and now that I'm doing my own builds, the savings increased. It's just a way better experience and a much more successful angle to quitting in my opinion.