Before Mike Moran was a small business owner and an e-cigarette evangelist, he was a smoker.

He picked up a cigarette as a teen and didn't quit until about six years ago, when he swapped it out for a Kangertech E-vod.

Moran says vaping helped him do what 14 years of sheer effort and smoking cessation drugs couldn't, and he's paying it forward through his Firehouse E-Cigs & Vapors shops. He opened his store on the lot where as a teenager he used to buy and smoke cigarettes.