Testimonials

I started smoking cigarettes at 14. That began a habit of a pack of menthol cigarettes a day for 50 years! During that time I tried to quit. Cold turkey, gum, lozenges, etc. And failed. In July 2021, a friend suggested I try a flavored vape pen and gave me a disposable one to try. Over the next couple of days I used it while finishing off the last 2 packs of cigarettes in my carton. I'm thrilled to say that in July 2023 it will be 2 years since I smoked a cigarette. Ive had no desire to have one. I feel better, my house, clothes, and car smell better. I'm spending less than half what I spent on cigarettes. All my vital signs and lab work from yearly doctors visits have improved. It took 50 years for me to find something that could help me stop smoking cigarettes. My only fear now is the attempts to ban flavored vapes. I can't risk resorting to smoking cigarettes again at my age. I've written my state representative and I'm following closely the current legislation.

I began smoking at the very tender age of 12. I buckled under peer pressure and wanted to be “cool” like my older aunt. I wasn’t a regular smoker until the age of 16. I was never a heavy smoker…10 cigarettes a day at my heaviest. And I hated everything about it…the taste, the smell…you’d think it’d be easy for someone like that to just quit. Here’s the thing…when I wanted a cigarette, I really wanted a cigarette! Addiction, dependency, whatever you want to call it, when your body is demanding something, one usually gives in to it. As with most smokers, I had tried several times throughout the years to quit. Patches irritated my skin. Lozenges and gum made me queasy. And forget cold turkey! I was actually successful with Chantix, even with the crazy dreams! But I was tobacco free for 1 ½ years with the help of Blu e-cigs. Zero nic, vanilla flavored cartridges to be exact! But I live in a very small, very rural town and zero nic carts were only available via mail order. No problem…until I needed them and didn’t have them! Several years ago my house was destroyed by a hurricane. The stress levels caused my cravings to explode. Unfortunately, I was out of carts. So what did I do? I got a pack of cigarettes. Completely negated the last 1 ½ years of being smoke free! And yes, I was again immediately hooked. I smoked for a couple of years and decided to give vaping a try. Several of my friends had quit using the vape method so I thought why not give it a shot. I dual used for about 2 ½ - 3 years. Never got into the hobbyist side of it but I did begin to accumulate various pod mods, AIOs, and sub-ohm devices. Tried an unknown amount of flavors, mostly zero nic with the occasional 2mg or 3mg nicotine. My cigarette usage was down to about 5 cigs a day. And while I enjoyed immensely the many different grape, watermelon, cookie, cotton candy, donut, sweet lemon, apple fritter, banana cream, and various other sweet flavored e-liquids, I just could not find the ONE. That one special flavor that really did it for me. Until about 6 months ago that is. I finally found the flavor that has kept me off the stinkies for good! Notice a theme here? Flavors! It was the vanilla flavor that helped me stay off cigarettes...until I couldn’t get them and went back to smoking. And it was flavors that kept my smoking down and finally a certain flavor that has helped me to be combustible free for over 6 months! I hope my testimonial will help the powers that be to see that if not for vaping and flavors, I’m pretty sure that I’d still be smoking. I seriously believe I couldn’t have done it without them. Did I mention that I developed eosinophilic asthma in my early 30’s? Yes…I smoked while being an asthmatic. Stupid in its grandest form, I know! Years of smoking and the steroid use to control the effects. I cringe at the thought of how strong of a hold cigarettes had on me. But now, thanks to vaping and flavors, I can take a deep, clean, breath of relief at the thought of being free of those chains! I know it’s only been 6 months but I feel sooo much better! No wheezing, coughing, and breathlessness. I’m much more physically active. I feel so much better all around…physically, mentally, emotionally. Now, at the age of 60, I am looking forward to a much healthier future! And if all of this wasn’t enough…my success has encouraged two elderly, lifelong smokers to give vaping a try. One has quit smoking and is now vaping and the other is dual using. I will forever fight the good fight where vaping is concerned. I know without a doubt it saved my life.

Hello everyone, Ron here. This is my first testimonial, but it is an important one. I used to be a smoker, which led me to snuff trying to stop smoking and ended up doing both. The smoking was causing my chest to start hurting and do I even need to talk about how disgusting a snuff habit is? My smoking habit caused me to be less active because it affects your lungs in a very bad way. Well one day I got a disposable vape pen and figured I would give it a try, after about a week I noticed running and doing more active workouts was easier, my chest stopped hurting and food even tasted better. I was able to stop smoking and using snuff all together. I never really cared for the taste of tobacco in any form, and really enjoy the candy and dessert flavors that are available in vape liquids. It is upsetting to me when they try to pass laws that ban these flavors, saying that they created them to hook kids. I am an adult and I love these flavors, pluse it helps me stay away from real candy as I have diabetes, LOL so I can still have the sweet taste of my favorite candy, without raising my glucose level. I really can't say enough good things about vaping. I am proud to say I have gotten 4 of my friends to stop smoking cigarettes and start vaping. I have a personal feeling that the people responsible for all the anti-vaping ads and falsehoods are the tobacco companies because they are losing business to people putting down the cigarettes/snuff and picking up a vape product. Oh and when you vape rather than smoke you, your car, your house and clothes do smell like a used cigarette butt. I hope this testimonial helped, and help someone decide to try it before they judge. You will feel all around better, smell better and it really is better for your health. One more thing, since I have been vaping my blood pressure is back to normal and my doctor has taken me off of the BP meds I was on.

Like many boys growing up in the 50s and 60s, smoking was perceived as being cool and tough; so like an idiot I joined the behind the bike shed crew along with all the other wannabes! I smoked through university and on into my working life. My wife was a smoker (CRC) and our children were/are too. In April 2017 I was trying to save money for a trip to the USA, and was struggling to save as fast as I wanted. The previous year I had spent 6 months trying to get rid of a hacking cough and constant cold; after some 45 years I was also getting sick of yellow fingers, stink breath and clothes and a smelly flat. This gave me the motivation to do something about the whole situation. My workmates, who sat outside as pariahs, were split into smokers and vapers. I was fascinated by their gear and when they explained the cost benefits I was sold. And that was without even discussing health benefits. Halfway through a pack of Menthol 30, I decided enough was enough and that day after work called into Hello Banana, and for $30 got a pen and 15ml of menthol 12mg. Fortunately enough charge to use that evening. The half pack I gave away at work the next day. I soon learned 15ml of liquid was not the best way to buy juice!! So graduated to 100ml bottles, and now spend about $1.00 (not a typo) a week on juice. I got new tanks and batts from China at $1.50 each. (No exploding batteries in nearly 6 yrs either). I now use a more efficient open vape pod system. But liquid only costs me $4.00 per week. So moving to the health benefits from the obvious financial advantages!! No yellow fingers, no stink breath, fresh clothes, sweet smelling flat and vehicle. No colds or coughs of note, good BP results, eating better now I can taste food and have even lost weight and apart from my non related other ailments actually feel almost spritely!! Well very almost. My dog Scottie and I could now walk 3kms a day, his 12 and my 66 needed the exercise, and we enjoy this in the morning together. Failing health at 66 precludes me walking now. This has been the 2nd best thing I’ve ever done in my life (marrying my wife will always be the first!) and a call I would highly recommend to any current smoker who is considering finances or health. Go for it, call into your local vape shop (not a convenience like me!!) and get some really experienced advice.

I smoked my first cigarette in 2010. I was fourteen years old, hanging out with older kids and it was peer pressure if I am being honest. I told myself that I was just “trying it out” and that I wasn’t going to be addicted, but by my fifteenth birthday in 2011, I was having my older friends buy cigarettes for me with my allowance. I was lying to my parents by seventeen, when they found a pack of Marlboro reds in my car, telling them that they were my friends and they just left them in my car. Eventually my grandfather told me he’d known all along but he had no room to judge because he’d been smoking since he was thirteen years old in 1953. In 2019, I was 22 years old and had a very bad weekend. First my mothers house burnt, and then the next day we found out my grandfather had lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain. He was given 1-3 weeks without treatment, but we got almost three months more with him. When he was in hospice, the last thing he told me was that he wanted me to quit smoking, so I promised him that I would. He died the next morning. I had just turned 23 two weeks before and had been smoking for eight years regularly at that point. Now, it took me nearly two months to get the courage to stop smoking. On July 31, 2019 I smoked my last cigarette in my pack at 1:30pm, then walked into my local vape store. The people at the vape store were extremely helpful, got me set up with a mod and 6mg graham cracker flavored juice. I was going camping that weekend and I chose not to buy another pack of cigarettes but stick with that mod and juice and I haven’t smoked a cigarette since then. It’ll be 4 years this year. Today, in 2023, I am using 3 mg vape juice and have learned that Salt Nic gives me headaches. It’s been a learning experience. I no longer get winded every time I climb stairs. I no longer have asthma flare ups. I haven’t touched my inhaler in four years (sans back in January of 2023 when I had the flu). My quality of life is better because I switched to vaping over combustible tobacco.

I started smoking cigs in 1977ish, I have stopped cig smoking since 1/2016 by vaping now. I am grateful that there is a much safer alternative and that I was able to fully switch to vaping. Vaping for me is a huge money savings also, except for all the newer taxes on vape products.

My mother smoked, trying to quit her whole life. She used gum, which gave her teeth issues. She tried patches, but they gave her skin issues. After years of trying to quit she died of lung disease. I picked up smoking from my family, and had a twenty year relationship with that devil. A friend gave me a cartridge based, menthol apple flavor and... it's a miracle. Do you hear me FDA? A MIRACLE. I can hike, taste food and live again. No more wheezing, my heart rate is down to a normal range and I have taken up ... wait for it... competitive swimming. If vaping were available to my Mom, she'd be alive today. Shame on anyone who spreads false science about this amazing smoking cessation device. Your children can't smoke by law - that's enough. Parental inability to control their children should have nothing to do with my freedom, nor should it be a reason to stop adults from having tasteful vapes. The FDA has effectively banned these products in an unfair and unjust manner. I'm living, breathing proof that vaping is far safer than smoking, and should be widely available in the US without delay or obstruction.

56 yo. 37 years smoking, the last 20, 60 cigarettes a day, today 6 years and 1 month without any cigarette. I thought I would die smoking, my health at the end of my 40's was bad, overweight, tired, I lived with a cigarette in my hand, I had started smoking at the age of 13, at 15 I already smoked a pack of cigarettes, in those days it was smoking was allowed in high school, some teachers and even the principal smoked, you feel big, powerful, proud to put a cigarette in your mouth, already in architecture at the university, the cigarette accompanied my nights, day after day, year after year, There were occasions when I found myself with two or three cigarettes lit at the same time, at that time I met my current wife who did not smoke but began to do so with me, we smoked one after the other, it was at that time that I began to consume 2 packs a day , after our wedding we continued smoking until she got pregnant with our first daughter, and when she was born we decided to quit, it was the first attempt to do so, it only lasted 15 days, because in a meeting with friends I turned on the first one again and said only one at the meeting, a week later I was smoking as much as before, my wife the same, even though she didn't smoke much, she lived with her entire smoking family where EVERYONE SMOKED IN THEIR HOUSE... that's when the bans came up, price increases had already my second daughter was born, and my increase to 3 packs that I kept for 20 more years, people identified me by my hand outside my car with the cigarette in my hand... my health deteriorated when I contracted Diabetes thanks to my lack of exercise and morbid obesity that I came to have, climbing stairs, working was very difficult because walking up a floor led me to wait almost 10 minutes to be able to articulate a word, I kept panting... that was when, when I was almost 50, I went to the City from Mexico to the doctor because my health was very deteriorated, I had lost weight with a lot of effort and had lost more than 123 lbs of weight, I had pain in my body and I thought I had cancer, after a complete check-up they detected only fatty liver and uncontrolled blood pressure, etc. but something happened, severe lung damage did not appear... that was when I decided to quit smoking... my wife and I went to buy gadgets, I had smoked for 37 years, the last 20 years, 60 cigarettes a day, a total of 625,000 cigarettes and spent about 137,000 dlls in my life as a smoker without taking into account my wife who smoked 2 packs a day... we started with an **** *** **, an AIO that was comfortable for us, in 3 days I was without touch a cigarette and to date I have not smoked again, I am 6 years old and a month without touching a single one thanks to vaping, my health improved from black to white, now I am active, I walk, but stairs, I do not get tired and I do my work with pleasure clear that I have problems but they are due to other health problems such as type 2 diabetes that I try to control... I hope this testimony helps many guys not comment on our mistake, my wife having anxiety took a long time more than leaving it for now when our grandchildren were born they got it and it has been more than 1 year and a half without trying a cigarette...

I started smoking at 13. I smoked for almost 29 years. The last 2 years I was a dual user, smoking and vaping. I quit smoking completely and continued vaping in February '23. Honestly I just got tired of random coughing fits. I got tired of not being able to take a deep breath when I first wake up without coughing. I tried Chantix. The nausea and crazy dreams made me stop that prescription quickly. I tried cold turkey countless times. I would quit for a couple days and be right back smoking again. Since quitting smoking, and switching to vaping full time, I can breathe again. I don't cough for no reason. I can take a deep breath first thing in the morning. I can taste food again. I don't smell like an ash tray all day. I honestly feel like vaping saved my life. I use multiple types of vaping products including pods, regulated devices, mechanical mods. It's become a little bit of a hobby. Buying new mods to customize. I exclusively vape flavored juices. There's no way I would continue vaping if all I had to vape is a tobacco flavor. Why would I want to vape a product that tastes like the cigarettes I spent years trying to quit? Short answer, I wouldn't. I would still be smoking if flavors weren't an option. The more research I do, and the more I learn, the more I realize a nicotine addiction is the least of my worries. You're told your entire life that nicotine is terrible and causes cancer. When I found out through my research that's a blatant lie, the decision to switch to vaping was easy. I'm confident when I say, vaping saved my life.

WILLIAM QUIT SMOKING WITH ECIGS. William is 70 years-old, and lives in Florida. William quit smoking with ECigs. William began smoking at the young age of nine. By the time he was 13 years-old, he was a pack a day smoker. By the time he reached his 57th birthday and a 2 pack aday smoker, he had had a heart attack. During his youth, William spent some time in a juvenile detention facility. It was then that he realized how addictive smoking was. Deprived of his cigarettes while he was in detention, he experienced withdrawal symptoms so intense his wardens thought he was coming off an illegal substance. Growing up in Pinellas County, William had always been athletic. He set records in track during his high school years. He was a weightlifter. After his recent heart attack, William’s doctor told him to get off cigarettes. “He told me I would be dead in ten years if I didn’t stop smoking.” William tried the nicotine patch, but he found it to be too expensive. Then in 2012, William tried electronic cigarettes, and he hasn’t looked back since. William’s doctor found that William’s lung function has improved “100%”. William has better energy. His wife is an ex-smoker, so she is very happy with the fact that William is not a smoker anymore. Now that he is using e-cigs, William said that he will never, ever go back to regular cigarettes. As William pointed out, regular cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. Many of these chemicals are toxic or carcinogenic. “I can smell it a mile away if someone has smoked a cigarette.” Many people who switch to e-cigs report the same sensitivity to the smell of cigarettes.