Yippee!
3 freaking years! I smoked for slightly under 30 years and never once tried to quit. 3 years ago, my (soon to be ex) wife asked me to quit smoking with her. She picked our quit date of Nov 1st, 2013. I bought my first vape on Halloween night 2013 just to give her the impression that I was actually trying to quit. I had no idea that I was about to do it for real.
People try to "congratulate" me for quitting smoking, but I don't take it. I didn't quit smoking, I just stopped doing it. On November 6th of 2013, I lit a cigarette as I walked out to the street to pick up the empty trash cans before leaving for work. As I got to the street, I took a puff. I hated it. I took another drag, and I hated that one too. I remember taking it out of my mouth, holding it up and looking at it, and then thinking to myself, "This tastes like ass. I like vaping better.". I knocked the fire off of it, and tossed it in the trash can. That was the last cigarette I ever had. I've been around lots of smokers. My wife still smokes (hehe). I have not had a craving, withdrawals, or anything.
I started with 18mg nic juice in a Kanger Mini Protank 2 on a Kanger EVOD twist battery. Now, I'm vaping 1.5mg (DIY) juice in an iTaste Subtank-G on an MVP 3.0 Pro.
I can't even begin to guess as to how much money I've saved, but I've been DIYing my juice since December of 2013. I was a 1.5-2 pack a day smoker, so it would have to be several thousand dollars by now.
It never fails to completely amaze me that people will try to simply quit, knowing the odds against it, rather than switching to vaping. It's like, deciding that a horse and unsprung wagon is a better way to travel than a car. 
It's like deciding to walk over hot coals, without fireproof boots. Vaping gave me those fireproof boots. 
