Hi, I joined yesterday. I am from Australia. I have been vaping since 2012 and I kicked a serious smoking addiction. I have a serious autoimmune disease Scleroderma. I smoked to get through the pain and fatigue since I was eighteen. I was treated like a disgusting piece of filth in the autoimmune society of we are going to die folks. I acquired a second autoimmune disease called graves disease about the time I switched to vaping. It was 2012. I don't have graves disease anymore. I am going to put it out there about nicotine. Maybe that's a clue about why I am still alive? Vaping is much gentler, there's something there with nicotine and autoimmune disease.