VAPERS VOICES
Many adult South Africans have used vaping as a method to help them quit smoking and practice tobacco harm reduction.
Since the very beginning, VSML has invited people to share their experiences and what this innovation means to them.
Their stories should not be ignored.
Jason Katz
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
3
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Menthol/Mint
Keeping off cigarettes and helping those around me quit
Date Uploaded: 20200624
Robert Horn
Age:
37
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
18
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Drinks
Smoked from a young age. Was always sick and coughing with flem…
40 to 60 Cigarettes per day was the norm.
Saw a e Cigarettes counter in a shopping center back in 2014 and decided to give it a go. Didn’t take to it straight away and was still using Cigarettes with vapes on off till 2018.
After my teenage son said to me Dad please stop smoking as he wanted me to have a better quality of life. Made decision then and there and have been smoke free for four years.
Best decision ever and vaping saved my life.
Date Uploaded: 20220913
Karin van Tonder
Age:
33
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
18
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Sweets/Candy
I was a heavy smoker and failed to quit four times. Gum, patches, meh. With my vape on hand and a juice, l enjoyed, I sat smoking a cigarette, decided that it was my last one and immediately switched to vaping only. Suddenly, quitting was possible. A day three days a week, three weeks. I still got my nicotine fix without all the poison from cigarettes, I enjoy it, and I don’t smell like a wet ashtray anymore. My morning cough, shortness of breath and regular heart-racing is gone and I haven’t been ill since
Date Uploaded: 20200703
Savino Kapp
Age:
29
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
13
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Fruit
Date Uploaded: 20220115
Tiaan Van Der Westhuizen
Age:
28
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
10
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Dessert
I started smoking at the age of 17 and I was a serious smoker of a pack a day and some times more at by the age of 18.During lockdown I had to resort to buying illicit cigarettes that are unregulated and I started noticing a change in health. I was coughing , developed headaches etc. My cousin who had been vaping for years lent me a spare pod device and some Nic-salts he had spare. I immediately quit cigarettes and I don’t look back. I am now a committed vaper and I have lowered my nicotine amount , no headaches or coughing. Vaping saved my life
Date Uploaded: 20220117
Benjamin Cripps
Age:
31
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
8
Vaping Years:
6
Flavours:
Fruit
The vape entered my lunes and became one.
Date Uploaded: 20200703
Kenny Smith
Age:
37
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
16
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Dessert
Date Uploaded: 20220117
christopher lacey-smith
Age:
25
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
6
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Fruit
Date Uploaded: 20221012