10 Real Powerful Vaping Stories from our customers
ALEX ZEIG84 comments
We cannot thank our customers enough for taking the time to share their successes in quitting smoking by use of electronic cigarettes under our blog post: The Truth Behind Recent Lung Illness Outbreak: Is vaping to blame? To hear their side of the story is a breath of fresh air in this day and age of smoke screens and false media claims.
With the current news and negative media coverage of the vaping industry now is the time to share your positive experiences with vaping. The world needs to know that this life saving electronic device needs to be praised not feared. Education is key and there’s no better way to understand and learn then from real people who changed their lives for the better with vaping.
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Here are 10 of our favorite comments from real customers
(we are sending out $50 gift cards who wrote these really touching and powerful stories--- please check your email if you are one of the following. Thank you! ) :
from PK
"I smoked for 25 years, no real success at quitting regardless of what I tried. I picked up vaping 2 years ago and it took 4 months to get away from a two pack a day smoker. I did not get a pod system i got an actual vape box mod and tank, well several tanks because it was easier to fill 5 tanks than try swapping flavors in one or 2 tanks. In those two years I went from 6 mg to 0 mg have no cravings for smokes, cloves or cigars. But I cannot seem to put down my 0 nic vape yet. And I am unsure of why that is. For me personally, it helped me 100% to quit smoking cigarettes and quit nicotine. But if i had to do it without different flavors I would have just gone back to cigarettes and failing to quit. Sorry for the grammar and other “ spbellin errers “ "
from Kimberly Davis
"THANK YOU for sharing this information! All this hype has come forward so quickly, I’ve definitely been one of the people with anxiety about it! I smoked for 30+ years and had tried everything to quit. It wasn’t until I started vaping that I was able to put it down. I started at 18% three years ago, and I’m now down to 3%. I do want to get to 0%, but STILL want to continue vaping, even after my nicotine addiction is gone! I enjoy it! It makes absolutely ZERO sense to stop an adult from making their own decision whether to vape or not, when they are still allowing cigarettes to be purchased! I completely agree with safety regulations or age restrictions, but to ban it completely, especially so quickly, isn’t right! Thanks again for the info!"
from Kelly
"I smoked for 31 years, and on January 24th 2013, I started to vape. I haven’t had a cigarette since, coming up on 7 years. I tried all kinds of ways to quit, nothing worked, except vaping. I’ve never had any issues from vaping. These kids today are using all kinds of things to vape, and that is what’s causing these medical issues with their lungs."
from Froglady507
"I haven’t smoked a cigarette since March 10th, 2017. All thanks to vaping! I started at 18mg of nicotine I am now down to 3mg of nicotine. Since starting to vape I immediately felt my body healing from the damage of smoking cigarettes for 10 plus years. I first vaped the nicotine flavors, over time switching to fruity flavors. From what I have been reading about the recent vaping lung issues, and deaths it seems like most of them were purchasing tampered with THC cartridges from people on the street. Why should they punish adult vapors? I agree with age restrictions. I don’t think kids should be vaping. I don’t see why they would ban vaping when all things considered it is still better for your health compared to disgusting cigarettes. I just had to put my two cents in!"
from Jane Kirkpatrick
"I had been smoking Kool for 50+ years and hand no desire to quit. Less than 2 months after retirement, I had my first stroke and the neurologist told me I had to quit cold turkey but not to let my blood pressure go above 140. I tried but my anxiety caused my blood pressure to jump to 175-185 so I knew that was only making things worse. My son got me what was needed to start vaping and by the third day I couldn’t stand the taste of menthol cigarettes. That was over 2 years ago and my health is great and my blood pressure stars around 100, my neurologist is thrilled."
from Rita Andies
"I was a smoker for 35 years, at a pack a day. I had diagnosed COPD but thill couldn’t quit with patches, gum or prescription drugs. My wonderful daughter in-law introduced me to vaping. I made the change from cigarettes to vaping effortlessly. I have been vaping since 2010 and get sick at my stomach just smelling cigarette smoke. My COPD has NOT advanced one bit, proven through medical tests taken yearly. My Pulmonary doctor knows my history and that I currently vape. He has told me that nicotine is no worse for you than caffeine, it’s the other stuff in cigarettes that kills. Since beginning vaping, I regained my sense of smell and taste. I no longer have the hacking smoker cough, I feel good when I wake up, something I never felt while smoking cigarettes. Anyone that thinks we vape because of the sweet flavors is clearly and idiot. Sorry President Trump and wife, but you know nothing. I’ve been there and done that. Buy from you juice a legitimate dealer ( like VaporDNA ) and you’ll be OK."
from Patricia Fowler
"I smoked for 35 years, and cigarettes were killing me I coughed all the time to the point of throwing up. I stopped smoking 4 years ago with vaping and I had tried everything else out there to stop before and couldn’t do it. Yes I use the fruit flavors, because the tobacco flavored e-liquid does not taste like a real cigarette. At first I wanted the cigarette taste but couldn’t stand the cigarette e-liquid so I tried the fruit flavors and now I don’t want to taste the real cigarette anymore. The various flavors play a role in stopping smoking with vaping. I am down to 3mg and hope to go to 0mg and stop vaping also. I think the fruit flavors help to stop smoking because it makes you realize how bad cigarettes taste and smell, plus giving the nicotine to help. If used the right way vaping is the greatest thing to help smokers stop and it does improve our health. If you ban flavors then some will have no option but to maybe buy from people e-liquid on the black market…. Then we would not know what is in it for sure and that will the situation worse just like the problem with the THC cartridges causing sickness and death. A ban will not stop the black market from making it, all it will cause is a bigger black market for e-liquid, put companies out of business and hurt former smokers and that is not fair at all. A ban is not the answer, I am proof that vaping the right way is safe. I hope you will take former smokers into consideration while making decisions that could change our lives for the worse. Thank You"
from Tami Halliday
"I smoked for 30 years or more I switched to vaping 8 years ago and I haven’t looked back. I use a flavored fruit juice and I’m honestly terrified that the government is going to rid the market of them. Thereby sending me back to cigarettes or purchasing black market juices. I enjoy vaping and yes I’m addicted to nicotine. I didn’t start vaping to quit nicotine I started because it was a healthier alternative. That said I have had smoker cough in 8 years. I haven’t gotten winded running stairs in 8 years. I can breathe better and feel better. It’d be a shame to go backwards when I’ve moved forward"
from Christopher H.
"I smoked cigs for 25 years 2 packs a day; needless to say that crap was killing me; I’ve been vaping for three years now cigarette free; I could not have stopped smoking without vaping. I vape dessert flavors and fruit flavors because grown 42 yo men like that!!!! I’m a disabled Army VFW I served my country the least I can do is not be forced to smoke cigs when a clearly healthier option is available. Please do not ban my flavors because most adults do not want to vape cig flavored e-liquids!"
from Sherri White
"After smoking cigarettes for over 30 years for me and 40 for my husband we quit!!! Vaping has saved our lives. My husband coughed and could not walk a mile. After only 4 weeks of vaping he does not cough and we can go for walks without stopping to rest. We have enjoyed NYC and Vegas last year and walked for miles!!"
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So please take the time to share your story as well and let our voices be heard that we will never go back to cigarettes. We will continue to vape because it has done nothing but better our lives. No more coughing in the early mornings, no more smelling like an ashtray after lunch and no more buying countless packs and littering the streets with cigarette butts.
We are not just a group of strangers fighting for a common cause. We are a community of friends, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas fighting for our right to live a healthier life.
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Comments (84)
Im not sure why that posted twice but the damn autocorrect!! My story of vaping was changed to baking🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is BS!! I know the new is covering vaping, making a bad name for it, because THE BIG CIG COMPANIES ARE LOSING TOO MUCH MONEY!! THEY’RE THE ONES PAYING FOR ALL THIS BAD PUBLICITY SO PEOPLE DON’T USE VAPING TO QUIT THEIR SURE FIRE WAY OF KILLING OFF PEOPLE!!!
—> MY STORY OF BAKING!
I smoked those nasty stink sticks for over 20 years! I started at the young age of 13, wanting to be “grown up”, wanting to look like my mom. If I only knew,,,, fast forward 20+ years of heavy smoking, I couldn’t even walk up a hill without my chest aching, or if I took a deep breath in after working in, I would grab my chest because of how bad the ache was. I would cough up brownish gray mucus every single morning. My fingers constantly reeked of cigs, along with my hair, my breath was always awful. It was disgusting. Vaping changed all of that!! So you can’t tell me it wasn’t better for me! No more hacking up mucus the same color as poo. No more chest hurting when I work out or walk up hills. I’m not out of breatb after a few minutes of walking or doing something strenuous. Vaping SAVED MY LIFE!!
Big Pharma, the big CIG conglomerates, THEY AREN’T LIKING THE LOSS OF ALL THIS PROFIT, THINK ABOUT IT!! Even big Pharma is losing out! Less people are sick, with those numbers rising if vaping stays put!! We need to think for ourselves these says, WITHOUT media! Go by experience or others experience! That’s the only truth you’ll find anymore when it comes to something like this!!
It’s all about money people.
STAY WOKE!!
After my pulmonary embolism, I was told to quit smoking, it was quite difficult. Quitting became easy once I started vaping. Not only do I feel so much better, vaping makes it easy to use my cbd when needed for pain and stress. I’m shocked that Trump wants to ban vaping, it’s a much better taking pills or chewing nicotine gum to quit smoking. Vaping has made it easier for me to get thru the day
I quit smoking cigarettes 12 years ago after smoking for about 25 years. I quit after being hospitalized over and over from pneumonia and my autoummune disease caused mostly by cigarettes . After about a year I started having serious cravings for them so I turned to vaping .. since then i’ve not had one episode of being back into the hospital for pneumonia and my sarcoidosis is in remission and on top of that my pulmonologist said my lungs finally look good again!
I smoked cigarettes for 15 years, 2 packs a day. I could not stop. I tried so many times, and couldn’t even last a day. I saw e-cigs, and thought it was worth a shot. This was in early 2011. From that day, I never touched a cigarette again. It blew my mind, and I thought why isn’t everybody trying this. I’ve been vaping ever since. It’s more of a hobby now, but I still vape everyday. Vaping not only got me off cigarettes, and got me off drugs, and alcohol. I literally owe my life to vaping. I make my own juice, so I know every ingredient it takes to make juice. The horrible, and absolutely false information the news, and government are putting out is nothing short of a modern day witch hunt! I’ve been vaping for almost nine years, and I haven’t been more healthier in my life. #Vaping saved my life!!
I never smoked cigarettes, i know thats how most people were introduced to vaping, and while my lifestyle and choices may change my love of vaping wont.
Before I started vaping, I smoked cigarettes for 10 years. I tried to quit multiple times and I kept going back. Vaping has helped me lessen my smoking and eventually it disgusted me to smoke a cigarette. I feel so much better now and I have more energy. I’ve been tobacco free for 10 months and I hope to never have another cigarette. All these false allegations about vaping is ridiculous, I vape quite a bit trying to curb my urges and I feel better than ever. I thank vaping for extending my life while satisfying my urges.
I stopped smoking 3.8 years ago, and smoked tobacco for 36 years of 1 pack per day on average and several times I tried to quit tobacco and all I managed to do was go down to half a pack a day. I thank the vaping for having quit smoking, I had never felt so good health, I no longer have a smoker’s cough, I have dropped from 36mg to 12mg of nicotine and will continue to do so. Regarding the latest events regarding vaping, I see that if young people are banned from vaping and I feel that the tobacco industry should cease to exist, they are the problem, I find it very strange that they DO NOT PROHIBIT THE TOBACCO KNOWING EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN HEALTH!! and for a few cases of illness related to vaping, which is not yet fully proven that they died by vaping now they are banning it. How many deaths are there per year from smoking & against vaping?
I used smokeless tobacco from ages 16-48 and my wife was a smoker, sometimes 2 packs a day, from ages 15-47. On Sept. 10, 2011, (9-10-11), we purchased our first e-cigarettes. They were the pen style ones that looked like actual cigarettes with the tip that lit up red when you pushed the fire button. We eventually evolved to mod boxes and tanks and went from 15mg nicotine liquid down to 3mg. We still vape today and my wife has lost 35 lbs in the process and plays racket sports 4 days a week. I have lost over 40lbs and am a powerlifter and also play racket sports 1-2 days a week. We are both healthier now than we were 15 years ago.
I’m a 50 year old woman who smoked cigarettes for 30+ years. I must have tried to quit at least 20 times throughout them years. And toward the end I even rolled my own because it was cheaper. Then I just got tired of that, always having to set aside some of my day to roll cigarettes before work or going out for the day. I just went back to purchasing store bought cigarettes. Then one day I was walking passed one of the 2 vape shops in my home town and decided to walk in and see what it was all about. The owner of the store was very helpful in every way possible. She told me since I was a 2½ pack smoker I should start out with a higher mg of nicotine juice. I figured why not try it. She set me up with 24mg nicotine juice and an easy to use pen. 5 years later I’m still vaping, mostly a squonker but I use a tank from time to time also. But my ejuice is 0mg of nicotine and a fruit flavored with a little bit of menthol added. I’ve watched both of my local shops struggle during the tax BS and now this. If people would use things the way they are intended to be used, there would be no problems. But for the government to want to shut down the whole vaping industry is wrong. Or is it because they want us all to be hooked on big tobacco again and ending up having to support big pharmaceutical companies too. I’ve been smoke free for 5 years now and have never felt better. I can walk up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. And my clothes, my car and house don’t stink of cigarettes either. And I don’t throw nonbiodigratable cigarette butts out my car window anymore. So all in all vaping has improved everything in my life. Let’s make vaping a lifestyle again and a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, the way it was intended to be.