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)
I can’t imagine what these young people are vaping that is killing them .
I have read all the comments made by fellow vapers . They all have valid points regarding “Big Tobacco”,and the Government and the media.
I smoked for 50+ years and I have been smoke free for 6 years on 12/9/19 . I Love fruit flavors. Medically speaking I have survived a mini-stroke, and cancer .I will be 72 in a few days and I feel pretty darn good.
I hope we win this one because it will possibly cause some relapse in so many successful cases.
I’m 27 years old I’ve smoked for about 15 years I smoked around a pack to a pack and a half a cigarettes a day!!! then I got paralyzed when I was 19 so I stopped smoking and started vaping since June 10th 2017 and flavored vape juice is what got me to quit smoking.
I smoked for about 40 years and 2 to 2.5 packs a day for the last 5 of those. I had really bad time in extreme heat or cold. Early April 2013 I left to go to work. The cold NE Ohio air hit my lungs as soon as I walked out the door. I hacked so bad that I vomited. I said after work I was going to stop at ecig store by my house and check out vaping as a way to maybe cut my smoking in half. 3 days later I had my last cigarette. 6.5 years later the heat or cold does not effect my breathing. I have only had 1 very minor cold that lasted 2 days. I no longer hack at night or wake up needing a 2 am smoke. I now help people in their vaping journey and have converted many. Government if you’re reading this, Vaping is a life changer and life saver.
I started smoking when I was young teen 13-14, but I began smoking daily when I was 16… when my father was diagnosed with throat cancer, I knew that I needed to do something… I tried chantix (oh my that was awful). I tried the patch, I tried cold turkey. I even tried the patch with aroma therapy “cigarettes” (they look like a cigarette… but have a bit of a flavor to them. It’s basically a straw! With a few bits of flavor when you go to puff on it) I though in conjunction with the patch, and the hand/mouth habit maybe it could help. It didn’t. When I learned about vaping 8 years ago, or e-cigarettes, I knew I had to try it, and sure enough I found what worked. I’m a mom to a 20 year old and a 15 year old. And of course the only thing we know for sure that is HEALTHY is to inhale NOTHING, and I’ve had very serious conversations with them regarding how I regretted the day I ever touched a cigarette.
Vaping has helped me get healthier, I am now 42, and I wound up gaining almost 70lbs a few years ago due to a severe depression, and I fell off the “vape wagon” but I knew I had to get healthy, and I certainly couldn’t get healthy or go to the gym if I couldn’t even breath just walking from the front door to the car, I knew I had to start vaping again, because I knew when vaping, I stopped wheezing, I could breathe better, I could smell better, I could taste better… so I began vaping again…. and when I felt my lungs opening back up (as best as I can explain it) once I was able to breathe better. I was able to start to slowly exercising, and my stamina built up over time. With the gym becoming part of my routine, and change of diet, I lost 67lbs. I can run now! Before I could not walk without getting short of breath, in fact I began sleeping downstairs… Bc getting upstairs was difficult.. the breathing and the toll the weight was taking on my body. I am not saying vaping is a miracle cure to stop smoking, but it certainly helped me a great deal, and continues to.. at least I know when ordering from reputable online distributors, and reputable vape shops, that my juice is not made in someone basement, and I know the ingredients used to make it.
Vaping is much healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes. It is no doubt the lesser of two evils. And had it not been for vaping I’m not sure how I would have started my journey to getting healthy, in more ways then one. If cigarettes and alcohol are legal, vaping should be as well, as adults we have a right to choose. Of course we do not want our children to do anything that we have done. As I say to mine, “do as I say… not as I do!” But I do vape flavors such as candy or dessert flavors. I agree labels could be changed, and made a bit more plain. But let’s face it, when we were young… if something was illegal it made it more exciting to try it. Banning vaping in my opinion is the worst thing congress could do, it leaves a giant gap in black market sales to sky rocket, and THEN we will see more illnesses and unfortunate deaths.
I vote, I vape, and I am healthier then ever.
I believe adult vapers should be asked their feelings, and should be able to tell their stories, seeing we are not vaping illegal black market juices.
And I feel this has become an unfair witch hunt. (My state is next. New Jersey is cracking down hard. And I needed a new mod. Of course nobody has it in stock! So by the time it is. Who knows where things will stand in my state. It’s really a shame. Because vaping helped me tremendously, even my doctors are thrilled with how much better my breathing sounds. It would be fair if congress listened to those of us who have vaped for many many years…. it is not a miracle but it’s a much safer alternative then smoking analog cigarettes.
Thank you for the opportunity for me to tell my story
Respectfully-
A vaper, a Voter, and a much healthier mom.
I smoked over a pack a day for 20 years. Tried pretty much everything commercially available to quit through those years, to no avail. It’s a frustrating feeling – knowing you need to quit but the cigarettes keep pulling you further and further in. A co-worker introduced me to vaping in 2015, and I haven’t looked back. I feel great, exercise daily and can smell and taste better than I can remember! I had to stay away from tobacco flavors, because of the association with smoking cigarettes, so fruit and dessert flavors helped me along the way! I firmly believe that if it weren’t for different flavors, I never would’ve quit smoking.
My quit date? 11/10/15 – I’ll never forget this date.
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If you have any questions about it get educated on it. Cancer patients who are currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments vape 0mg to push past any pre-treatment cravings. THC vaping and devices are entirely different than regular vape mods or pens. Uneducated are not going to know the difference in either. I’ve also confiscated modified cheapos’ goods which are normally JUL pens. If you’re going to vape (like myself and my husband) be educated on this and KNOW YOUR STUFF!!! I regularly inhale a mixture of N2 O2 and CO2 and I’m ok!! It has saved lives but nobody talks about that part. 🙌🏽💯 If it weren’t for the choice we both made together to vape we both may not still be here today.
Do us all a favor and research the traditional hookah. You’re literally killing me laughing at you right now!! 😂☠️
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I also quit cigarettes but vaping. I was a 2 pack a day. I tried everything, gum, patches, chantix nothing worked. I do have copd and 2 yrs ago had a blood clot in my lung. The only thing that got me off cigarettes was vaping. I started on an ecig at 12 mg and then upgraded to a few mods and pod systems. I now smoke 3 mg and have been ogg cigarettes for two yrs. After smoking for over 50 yrs. My husband also stopped vaping after 55 yrs and he was a 3 pack a day. He is now down to zero nicotine. We enjoy vaping maybe it is a hand to mouth thing who knows. Even my pulmonary doctor told me to go to vaping better than cigarettes. After trying many things vaping is what helped us. I no longer get lung infections. When I smoked I would get pneumonia 4 to 5 times a year. Not once since I started vaping. This is nonsense adults need to be able to choose. Cigarettes are known to cause problems and their still available for sale. Enforce the laws for minors not adults. This is nonsense and has many of us having anxiety over how we will obtain our ejuice. Why not listen to all the people who were sick while smoking and are now better in health since vaping.
I started smoking when I was 13 years old. I smoked for 32 years. Then I started getting chronic bronchitis every winter and from there, pre COPD. I HAD to quit. Tried EVERYTHING, all the gum, patches drugs all made me sick literally! Vaping saved my life and allowed me to go from 23mg juice to 6 mg today and I quit a week after I started vaping. The doctor says my lungs are back to normal like I’ve never smoked before. My blood pressure dropped, I can breathe.
The people getting sick are from the pods made in China with very addictive additives and synthetic THC . Of course Phillip Morris isn’t happy that they’re losing victims either so between the two and the fake media, here we are. I enjoy desert flavors. I have to show ID or confirm my birthday every time I buy vaping products. We are adults & shouldn’t be told by the government what we can or cannot put in OUR bodies.
It’s up to PARENTS to PARENT their children NOT the government. Yes we want to keep them safe but at what point do we say enough is enough? Alcohol and smoking causes SO many problems (don’t get me started) vaping SAVES LIVES.
I have smoked cigarettes since I was 14 years old and I am 56 now and I quit smoking by vaping so all these people who talk about Vape need to know what the heck they’re talkin about. It’s definitely a safer alternative then smoking cigarettes. And makes it an easy transition to quit smoking cigarettes, which can normally be a very difficult process.
I started smoking well below legal age with camel lights. I quit cold turkey when I was 18 and then started back up when I was 20 for no reason what so ever. 13 years later after multiple different methods of trying to quit and being a dual user of vape and cigarettes, I am now a 1 month old vaper only. I finally did it. I’ve already seen improvements in my lung capacity, smell, taste, and sleep quality. In a month… my life quality has improved. I have loved this site and the quality of products and shipping time as well as variety. I am heartbroken with how our country is doing a knee jerk reaction and media frenzy. Thank you for everything.