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.
Gerrit Visagie
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
15
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Tobacco
Vaping is the most successful means to quit smoking It has helped me get off cigarettes, and many of my trends, all of whom will live longer healthier lives as a result
Date Uploaded: 20210930
Chantre
Age:
34
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
18
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Dessert
Date Uploaded: 20220117
Romalan Govender
Age:
33
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
17
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Fruit
Healthier option. I can breathe better and my chest does not tighten like when I smoke. I also don’t cough Ike l used to
Date Uploaded: 20200703
Juan Stander
Age:
25
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
10
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Dessert
I have been trying and struggling to quit smoking for years, Vaping has finally made this possible for me, I know it is not as healthy as not vaping but it is definitely less harmful then smoking.
Date Uploaded: 20221014
Chez Perrow
Age:
30
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
10
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Like more than one type
Date Uploaded: 20220124
Carl Belelie
Age:
38
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
24
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Like more than one type
Smoked cigarettes all my life. It got really expensive and always left me feeling lethargic. I’ve now been vaping for almost a year and I’ve never felt better. It’s also much cheaper than Cigarettes when you make your own vape Juice.
Date Uploaded: 20220117
Kaveer Beharee
Age:
43
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
20
Vaping Years:
4
Flavours:
Dessert
Vaping is a brilliant alternative, but the industry is dodgy and should have subjected itself to self-regulations years ago to protect its reputation and weed out bad actors. But it hasn’t, so I don’t support most local producers because I simply don’t know what I’ll be vaping. You can’t, as an Industry, talk about harm reduction in smoking while doing very little to promote harm reduction in vaping. You also, as an Industry, condemn those s substandard or fake products while some of the industry’s largest retailers sell clones. Finally, does this post really matter is it just a way to build a database?
Date Uploaded: 20200625
Angela Van Es
Age:
39
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
15
Vaping Years:
5
Flavours:
Dessert
I’ve been vaping for 5yrs now and really does help you quit smoking cigarettes
Date Uploaded: 20220115