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.
Shaun Bronkhorst
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
26
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Tobacco
I smoked 26 years and was constantly tired and out of breath. After converting to vaping my health improved exponentially. I feel like a new person.
Date Uploaded: 20220115
Leisl Brand
Age:
43
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
15
Vaping Years:
6
Flavours:
Fruit
I was tired of coughing every morning and everything smelling like smoke. I started with twisp and graduated to a rebuildable tank. I haven’t looked back and will never smoke again. I am much healthier, I don’t smell anymore and my children are no longer exposed to second hand smoke. I couldn’t be happier.
Date Uploaded: 20220808
Nicolaas Andries Lubbe
Age:
42
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
24
Vaping Years:
2
Flavours:
Fruit
My life and health changed for the positive
Date Uploaded: 20220120
Damien Joynt
Age:
30
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
9
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Fruit
Date Uploaded: 20200625
Daryl Shepherd
Age:
39
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
20
Vaping Years:
10
Flavours:
Like more than one type
So about 10 years ago I was feeling like crap for a few months. Loosing weight not sleeping and just generally not feeling myself. Went to the doctors and they took a blood sample. Turns out my blood sugar levels were 600+ which if you are aware are not good levels. I grew up with asthma and yes still smoked cigarettes. So now being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes it was time to try and quit. I had tried several times in the past but nothing ever stuck. Someone told me back then about electronic cigarettes. I figured why not I’ll give it a shot and I have never picked up a cigarette since. My asthma is nonexistent at this point and vaping definitely saved my life.
Date Uploaded: 20210220
Mary Beszterczei
Age:
54
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
25
Vaping Years:
7
Flavours:
Fruit
Vaping saved my Iife. After watching my mother die on a ventilator from years of damage to her lungs from smoking, my eyes opened that I did not want to follow in her fate. Since I’ve been vaping, my lungs are strong again, I no longer get upper respiratory infections, no longer get winded, and I got my sense of taste & smell back. Vaping has been a God send for me, and Ill never go back to smoking cigarettes evert
Date Uploaded: 20200708
Sheryl Venter
Age:
36
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
18
Vaping Years:
4
Flavours:
Like more than one type
I was in hospital once a year with serious lung infection before I quit cigarettes. I often woke up early hours of the morning, needing a nebulizer just to be able to breathe. My kids were always sick, even though I never smoked in the house. With my last visit to hospital, I was diagnosed with chronic Asthma, and would henceforth need to do lunch exercises and live on asthma pumps. I decided to quit smoking and vaping. Within a month, my taste buds improved, my breathing improved, and I didn’t wake up once to use a nebulizer. I have not been admitted, nor been diagnosed to bronchitis since I’ve been vaping. My lungs are functioning better. My kids are not sick as often. Unless they go near someone who smokes cigarettes. And if I had to do it all over again I would.
Date Uploaded: 20221018
Ric Schubert
Age:
28
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
13
Vaping Years:
9
Flavours:
Dessert
I feel my taste buds are alot better as well as my smell.
I also feel I am not short of breath when I exercise.
I tried stopping cigarettes with the nicotine SNUS and never seemed to get fully off of cigarettes until I started vaping and have been off of cigarettes with the help of vaping… Health feels a whole lot better
Date Uploaded: 20221006