It was rough man and sorry I missed this reply somehow.

I just quit cold turkey man. Was smoking 1.5-2 packs a day and dropped them finally. I just had it in my head that I was willing to suffer over it and I did for about two weeks. My Mom smoked on and off for years (she quit when she had me and my brother and then started back) and I told her if she would quit I would quit as she hated me doing it. She got on Wellbutrin (sp?) and it helped her and when I noticed she was quit and holding I held up my end and dropped them cold. Like I said, after about 2 weeks to a month you will constantly crave and then it's gone. I actually still crave them maybe once a month now if that and it's been 11 years now. You get that smokers cough after a week or two and they say it's your lungs cleaning themselves of all the nicotine and crap. After the cough is gone it's gravy from there.

On the e-cigs I agree it has to be safer than cigs, but I think eventually everything is bad for you if you are inhaling it because of your lungs. I agree that marijuana is probably the safest thing to smoke but I think eventually you even have problems 20 years down the road as you don't smoke as many a day than cigs.