Honestly, the reason my brain first considering ecigs was NOT quitting smoking!
It was: "how can I sneak a smoke in at places/times where it would be hard to not to?"
This is why I started.
And it's the first 10 or so biggest benefits I've gotten from it!
Man, first few days I would make a habit to vape everywhere I couldn't smoke: elevators, bathrooms, office, at home when I was otherwise 'done smoking for the night', etc.
What I didn't do was to publicly vape in places I knew I couldn't smoke. Hell, even in the mall right next to the smoke everywhere (GOD I want to type 'smoke anywhere'... it makes so much more sense!) stand, I didn't try it, although I very much wanted to. I walked all the way out of the mall to where I could smoke normally, even threw the cart wrapper garbage in the smoker's outpost thing outside.
I just am not up to have to fight in a restaurant or mall or other non-smoking building to explain that I'm "not really smoking". You know, you're in the store or whatever, you have an ecig in the pocket. You could just pull it out and take a few hits, but you KNOW you'll be attacked by an employee or something. I feel like I need to carry a pamphlet or something.
Despite the whole initial 'stealth smoking' factor, I've now come to realize that this is a killer smoking cessation tool. It doesn't have the first-cig-of-the-day kick to it, but for the rest of the grind it's almost as good. And the HUGE widening of places and times you can use it is great! The lack of negative (direct and indirect) effects compared to 'analog's is another key factor.
Anyway, came for the stealth, staying for the quitting