VAPERS VOICES

I started smoking in high school when I was 15/16, smoked for combustible cigarettes untill I was 21. I saw one of my old coworkers vape and asked him to try it out instantly decided that I would like to buy my own device to try and stop smoking. After about 2 months of having my own vape I finally put down the cigarettes for good. About a week or two after having my final cigarette I could notice the changes food tasting better my nose being way more sensitive to smells no more shortness of breath no more coughing felt healthier

Been a smoker since high school. Even after saying I would never. Met the girl of my dreams, went on a cruise with her and her family. Just hours after having a morning stinky. She walked past me, and told me I ” smell like a stompie” last stinky I ever smoked. Came of the ship, and bought my first vape. Became a member of the Durban vaping community. Made the best relationships through vaping.

I started smoking at the age of 15, by my late teens I was smoking 25 to 30 cigarettes a day. I tried to give up many times but I wasn’t able to do it. At the age of 41 in 2019 I believed that quitting was a lost cause and that I was destined to smoke for the rest of my life, until a friend loaned me a vape device. I had been unwilling to spend the money on a vape device as I didn’t believe it would help me quit but my friend suggested I try it, just to see what it was like. I bought a bottle of Caramel Apple Cake flavoured juice and tried vaping, just to try it, but I didn’t intend to quit smoking. I enjoyed the flavour of the juice so I kept going back for another puff, just to enjoy it. within 10 days I was getting enough nicotine satisfaction from the vape that I had dropped to 10-12 cigarettes a day without realising. on 1st august 2019 I smoked 1 cigarette first thing in the morning and then got ready to go out. I decided to go for my morning out and try to see if I could do the whole morning without smoking, and I did. and the afternoon, and so on. three years on I still have not smoked another cigarette. soon after I switched to vaping I could feel my health improving. I could walk and cycle further and faster, I was sleeping better, I have had fewer days off work sick and my sense of smell and taste have improved. I truly believe that vaping has make me healthier and extended my life. I also think that the flavour’s of vape juice available were a significant factor, if I had not enjoyed the flavour so much I would not have kept going back to the vape. Even now, three years smoke free, I wont vape tobacco flavours because I worry that inhaling tobacco flavour vape will connect me to smoking and draw me back.

Straight to the point I feel better everyday I can breath better at night and in the morning no more coughing and train and run better all day

I used to cough and wheeze a lot, which has stopped since i started vaping. Furthermore, my lungs have cleared and I no longer have “smoker’s lungs”

Vaping made me stop smoking cigarettes, my chest feels better