Testimonials

I started smoking at age 16, at the time of coarse minors were not supose to be able to purchase cigarettes but i had a pack a day starting at age 16 of full flavor marlboro. Im 34 years old now. At age 32 after trying to quit cold turkey of smoking i finally went to a pulmonologist because i was having trouble breathing. I had developed asthma and COPD at age 34 after being around two parents second hand smoke my whole life and smoking myself for 16 years. My Doctor said i had to quit or my breathing would get worse. I tried his way , with a specialist to help me quit smoking. Took home some litrature and a prescription for welbutrin. After two weeks of smoking sessation program I was still smoking and couldnt put the cigarettes down. Then i googles electronic cigarettes one day as a final measure to save my life. My mother had died of lung Cancer at age 63 from smoking since she was 16 smoked two packs a day of winstons. I realized i was not too far from age 63 and with two kids and a husband i had to quit smoking somehow. I ordered my first electronic cigarette. I put alot of faith in making this work as i did with the prescription. Three days into using an electronic cigarette i was no longer smoking with it. After a week i had completely stoped smoking and buying cigarettes. After two weeks the changes started happening in my life after being smoke free for only two weeks. For two weeks i coughed up some really horrible phlegm, I was not liking the change of coughing so much stuff up, almost went back to smoking to make it stop. Instead i kept with it and did alot of research. It was on the 18th Day that i woke up in tears of joy! It was the first morning in 16 yrs that i woke up and didnt go into a coughing fit and bronical spasm from smoking. I sat up took a deep breath in and out. And i started to cry. I cried because i forgot what it was like to wake up normal without coughing and gasping for my breath. Thirty days after i quit smoking i went back to my pulmonologist. I had another breathing test done. The results as he said and showed were 99% improvement in lung function. I know longer was using spiriva inhaler or my rescue inhaler daily. I used only the rescue inhaler if necessary. The doctor asked me how I quit smoking. I told him i bought an electronic cigarette. I explained to him what was in it, He wrote in my chart continue use of electronic cigarette. He said just keep doing it, because the diffrence is amazing. I have now been smoke free for two and half years using electronic cigarettes. My husband started 30 days after i quit and he is also now two years smoke free. We both continue the use of electronic cigarettes as our nicotine replacement and as long as it keeps us from the dangerous chemicals and carcinogens with real cigarettes we are happy and healthier for it. I really do believe with evidence in doctors reports that tobacco harm reduction product such as an electronic cigarette has given more time on this earth with my family. Im very greatful for finding Electronic Cigarettes it saved my life. The only down side of electronic cigarettes is , there is less nicotine in them than regular cigarettes and i have gained weight in the two years i quit smoking as most former smokers do. Mainly because food taste so much better now, and my senses of smell and taste buds after quting smoking have come back to me...

I smoked for over 35 years. I started vaping 1 and a half years ago. I started with regular cigarette sized e-cigs for about 2 weeks and moved on to larger batteries with atomizer tanks. I have not smoked cigarettes in almost a year. Previously I had tried the nicotine gum and patches with no success. I breath better and no longer have a smokers cough.

Raised in a traditional Christian home, I first tried a cigarette when I was about 18 years old in rebellion against a friend who would not keep her promise to stop smoking. It wasn’t until several years later when I got my first job as a Technical Support Analyst that the occasional cigarette with a coworker grew into an expensive habit that I immediately wanted to quit. I tried to quit cold turkey, and then I tried using a nicotine patch, gum, lozenge, and even hypnotherapy. Each time I would have some success, but eventually life’s stressors or my own stubborn ADHD brain would bring me back to cigarettes over the next 15 years until I discovered an invention called “electronic cigarettes…” I was immediately fascinated by the gadgets when I first saw them in Clackamas Town Center shopping mall, and threw several hundred dollars for “starter kits” for myself and some friends. Unfortunately, some of the parts were lost within a few days so it mostly sat on a shelf for about a year until one day my (then 7-year old) daughter objected as I was stepping outside for a cigarette, and said “Daddy, isn’t that ‘pretend cigarette’ better for you? You should use that instead.” Inspired by her pure intentions and desire to keep her daddy alive and healthy, I began researching electronic cigarettes and tobacco harm reduction. Within a few days after finding a better model and trying some different flavors and strengths, I found that I could customize “vaping” into an experience that I enjoyed as much if not more than smoking. I wasn’t planning or expecting to quit smoking but was happy to drop to just one or fewer cigarettes a day, but eventually my senses of taste and smell improved and I lost interest in smoking. One day it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember when I’d last had or wanted a cigarette. I stopped smoking the same way I started: As an unintended consequence of spending time with techies! In order to have a calendar date to point to, I intentionally smoked one cigarette on New Years’ Eve, Dec 31, 2009 and I haven’t had a cigarette since.