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.
Kendal Barnett
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
15
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Fruit
Vaping has helped my breathing and my blood pressure. I feel 100x better, and my fiance loves that I don’t stink anymore! 😉
Date Uploaded: 20210716
Paul Young
Age:
61
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
35
Vaping Years:
10
Flavours:
Like more than one type
After a mild heart attack in 2012, had to stop smoking but patches gum ect did nothing to help. Only vaping got me off the cigarettes.
Date Uploaded: 20221012
Christopher Harris
Age:
26
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
11
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Like more than one type
I started smoking when I was 15 years old. struggled to knock the bad habit over and over trying to quit, and I couldn’t. Until my daughter was born last year and I lay in bed one night playing on bed with her then I could hear my chest wheezing and this was when I decided if I wanted to see my daughter grow up, I must make a plan, and the next morning I got myself my first vape setup. Since that day I haven’t touched a cigarette again, and my health has improved a lot. And I don’t smell like a walking ash try anymore, which is also a bonus
Date Uploaded: 20210922
Chantel Van Zyl
Age:
38
Current Smoker:
Yes
Smoking Years:
20
Vaping Years:
2
Flavours:
Like more than one type
I have been a smoker for more than half my life, I smoked around a packet a day and since I started vaping, I’m down to less than 5 cigarettes a day, I can feel a major difference in my health, I have more energy and my mental state of mind has improved. I recently went for a cardiologist checkup as I had heart surgery in my twenties and my cardiologist is thrilled with the improvement seen in my health in general… My lungs are clearer, and my heart is healthy… Vaping has helped me get to where I am today and with persistence, I will eventually stop all together….
Date Uploaded: 20221007
Hennie Coetzee
Age:
32
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
13
Vaping Years:
1
Flavours:
Fruit
Date Uploaded: 20220808
Mauritz Coetzee
Age:
41
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
25
Vaping Years:
8
Flavours:
Dessert
It changed my life for good as I have a Heart condition
Date Uploaded: 20220120
Haedyn Stephenson
Age:
21
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
5
Vaping Years:
3
Flavours:
Like more than one type
I started smoking smoking in school when I fell into the wrong crowd of friends. I was an athlete with asthma and I battled to be able to participate in physical activity. I thought of making the necessary change and decided to buy myself a MTL device and leave the cigarettes after I left school. It took me less than 2 months to stop smoking and I was only vaping. I gradually dropped I’m the nicotine content I was vaping and I noticed that I was finding breathing to be a lot easier, my taste was a lot better and I was able to participate in sports in my free time. I’ve been vaping for 3 years and I haven’t had the need to use my asthma pump in 2 years. I also found that vaping has saved me a lot more money. Vaping has changed the way I live my day to day life and I can confidently say that I am a lot healthier.
Date Uploaded: 20230215
Brett Steyn
Age:
48
Current Smoker:
No
Smoking Years:
33
Vaping Years:
2
Flavours:
Tobacco
Lower blood pressure, asthma has reduced from 1 inhaler / month, to 1 inhaler every 6 months. Reduced hayfever. Saved a substantial mount of money in the last year due to not buying cigarettes. More energy, better sleep.
Date Uploaded: 20220116