10 Real Powerful Vaping Stories from our customers

Just wanted to add my story to all the other awesome stories! I started smoking when I was 16 or so and four years ago, at 49 years old, I was diagnosed with emphysema/COPD. Despite that frightening diagnosis, I continued to smoke. I just could not slay the dragon. Approximately a year ago, I had four hospital admissions very close together. I was unable to blow off carbon dioxide created by smoking combustible tobacco. My final admission numbers were so scary that my doc said one more cigarette and I probably wouldn’t even make it back to the ER. I was miserable when I got home and someone suggested vaping. I did a little research, watched some YouTube videos, and bought a pen style vape.

A year later, and I’m a totally different woman. I use my oxygen at night, but can go many hours in the day without it. I don’t even know where my nebulizer is. I can go shopping again. I can do household chores again. I have a LIFE again thanks to vaping. Vaping has quite literally saved my life, and I would be heartbroken if I lost it. We must stand together and fight with everything we have to prevent vaping being vilified by media outlets!!

My saga is pretty much the same as many of these. I’d been smoking for 47 years and have been Gagger Free now for just under 19 months. I started out with a 21mg patch, 4mg gum and 28mg juices. That only lasted for the whole 21, 14 to 7mg patch program decreasing the nicotine with the patches. Been down to 3mg juices for about 9 months. Without Flavors I wouldn’t have made it. I started with an Innokin MPV2 and am now the proud owner of 10+ mods. Amazing what I’ve learn over this time and have used the info to help others quit. Letting them try mods before they go buy it has helped a lot too. Feeling a lot better these days, Breathing better too. Now if only it could help with my sleep apnea. Butt hey, Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One. Take care.

I started smoking when I was 17. I am now 56. I tried for years to quit smoking using every alternative on the market! I was never successful until I started vaping. I started with the 18 mg and am currently down to a 6 mg.Now I’m panicking because they’re trying to take it away from us! The flavors (especially mint flavored) are what helped. I use to cough and hack so hard I’d wake myself up in the middle of the night but I don’t anymore! I feel better, I breathe better, I smell better and I don’t want to go back to cigarettes!

Quit smoking in January and I am so happy! Vaping is such a better alternative for the lungs it’s astonishing. Had to put the cigs to rest and let my lungs rest (literally), so im really happy vaping is a way for people like me to quite smoking because that it one of he hardest things to do! Soon i will stop vaping nicotine too and im going to use CBD vaping as my alternative. I’m truly so happy that vaping exists or else i would never have quit smoking. Knowing i can vape without nicotine or use cbd is a life changer. Hopefully we can keep our flavors and this ban doesn’t succeed!

I quit smoking cigarettes 10 years ago.. but I would still struggle with cravings and would sneak out, buy a pack of cigarettes just to smoke one and throw the rest away around once a month. It was only after I decided to try a menthol flavored e-cigarette that I was able to completely get over the cravings. I was a menthol cigarette smoker…. Only the feeling of menthol could take away the cravings. I am terrified of what could happen to my resolve if this option is not available to me. How much more tempting will those cigarettes which disgust me now be when there is no alternative?

Vaping has done the same for me. I smoked for over 30 years. About ten years I quit smoking and buying cigarettes, but I was always asking for a cigarette one day I asked my sister for a cigarette. She handed me a Mod and said try this. For the last five years I haven’t touched a cigarette. Can’t stand them.
What would I do without vaping. I don’t think the government has any idea how many of us vape. I don’t try to hide it but I vape in the privacy of my home, car or a way from the public. I walk by someone everyday that is smoking. It’s the young people that get the bad vape not all us older people. Young people can’t afford the high class mods and E-Juice that we use. So the government needs to ban all e-cigarettes out of service stations and small convent stores.

Vaping saved my life, the one I will continue to cherish and spend time with my family. I was a heavy smoker, going through almost 3 packs a day for 25+ years. I knew I needed to quit, as my dad was also a heavy smoker and the headaches he went through. I tried the gum, to see it the chewing action would satisfy and fulfill the urge, but it didn’t and tasted rather nasty. I tried the patch, but that failed as well. Cold Turkey failed as well. Each trial and failure left me feeling down and out and increased my smoking habit. Luckily my wife had by that point researched Electronic Cigarettes or E-Cigarettes and couldn’t find any negative reviews or studies side effects or anything bane in the news about them. The one thing most apparent was the Positive results in easily aiding people to break their smoking habit. I too at first was quite skeptical, reading the amount of success stories…seemed like it was too good to be true. So one day, my wife and I visited one of the local shops aka Brick n Mortar aka Vape Shops and was schooled in the many aspects of starting out. Those guys that spoke to us, you could clearly see let alone hear the Passion they had as they spoke to us. That shop grew rather busy too, while we were there, and this guy humbly brought us down to one end of the shop to better hear our questions and not be interrupted. It wasn’t about any sale for him, it was more about where he believed I would be comfortable starting out, if I felt willing to give it a go. Back than it was all entirely new to me, and I started out with a basic ego pen style kit. It had small rechargeable batteries and disposable tank. I didn’t want anything tobacco flavored or related, as I wanted to quit smoking and not drag anything further along. I was also not any kind of mint or menthol fan. I still had flavor choices to try and choose from, and that was helpful. I wasn’t eager to jump into any of the sweet cereal like flavors and wasn’t too sure about the range of fruit flavors either. I was still bashful in a way and had saw that they also had a Coffee flavor E-Juice. I enjoy the Taste of coffee, so I decided to run with it. I started out with a Coffee flavor juice at 24mg nicotine level on a Friday and began my journey. I never smoked in my house, and had always stepped outside to indulge, with my new kit…I didn’t have to. Every time I started to feel that itch, I tried the vape pen. After a few hits, that itch went away ! I couldn’t believe it, i was no longer thinking about stepping outback and having a smoke. I had the last few cigarettes in my pack between Saturday and Sunday morning, but by the time Monday rolled around I didn’t feel that anxious desire to smoke. Between that Friday afternoon and Sunday night, I managed to walk away from smoking. I continued to used that coffee flavor at 24mg nicotine strength for a month, at which point I stepped down to the same flavor but at only 18mg strength. After about another month, I stepped down to 12mg strength and also ventured to try a Chocolate flavor ejuice… which I also later mixed with my coffee flavor. Another successful month later I moved to 6mg strength, and was open to trying a couple of fruit flavors. Soon I made it down to 3mg strength which was barely anything, especially from where I started out at. I am still smoke free and approaching my 6 year mark ! After that first month of being smoke free, I was able to breathe easier and not have any coughing spells. My sense of taste and smell increased too, and the best part was I no longer reeked of cigarette smell. I also increased my working knowledge of battery safety and other devices that enhanced my experience in bringing out the flavor that much more. I had options with different types of tanks, and began building my own coils and was able to control where I enjoyed the flavors I like. Having all those variables assisted me in my endeavor. I continued to share my knowledge with others, who were also seeking a desire to quit the habit. I would hate to see this aid become obsolete, as it has already helped so many folks quit. On top of the fact where as all the Shops and companies here in the US have so many people employed. Many have that same passion to help others quit too, and that’s priceless. I consider myself an advocate, and will continue to fight for my right, and for those who have yet crossed over.

I smoked unfiltered Camels for 30 years – “cutting back” to about a pack a day – and feeling it in the lungs…that hacking cough each morning when I woke up. I finally said, “That’s it,” and bought my first (awful) vape pen. It took a while, but finally I found a vape system and flavors that made it possible to simply stop smoking cigarettes. Period. That was over 4 years ago and I have not even had a puff off a cigarette since. Lungs are clear. I have my wind back. Feel great in the morning. Don’t stink. (Never have to have an associate ask me to step back from them so they can escape the cigarette reek anymore.) Even my doctor said that nicotine never was the dangerous part of smoking – and vaping eliminates the toxic chemicals one breathes in when smoking burning tobacco. (And that’s a doctor!) Vaping may not be for everyone. And if someone doesn’t smoke, then I suggest they don’t start vaping OR cigarettes. Why go there? But for those of us who did smoke, vaping completely solved my need for a cigarette and I was able to completely stop cold turkey and never go back. Probably the big upset with governments is the tax dollars states are losing when people quit smoking. Well, they were the ones who said they were raising taxes to get us to quit. Now that we’re quitting, they seem to want us to go back. Hmmm.

I started smoking when I was 11 years old. I’m 35 now. I never really thought about quoting until I had kids. I tried everything to quit smoking. Nothing worked. Then I found out about vaping. I bought a starter kit and some dragon fruit juice. However I wasn’t really ready to quit. I was vaping and smoking. After a while I just decided it was time to really quit. I tried other flavors, ranging from strawberry, watermelon, to desert flavors, like cookies and cream and custard flavors. I am now cigarette free. Have been for 2 years. I never would have quit if it wasn’t for flavors.