From Jay

Hi Phil, (Pete, Lou, Batman?)

First off thank you so much for all the work you put into your site and videos, it
has really made my vaping experience worlds better. This is pretty much my
intro post on ECF and wanted to share it with you. Your videos have really helped me
want to try all vaping has to offer.

I was a smoker for about 10 to 15 years if you count the once in awhile stuff I did
way too young. My main smokes were Winston red 100’s since that’s what my dad smoked
so my mother never knew it was “my” pack if I left it lying around. After the tax
increases I started to roll my own and did that for years. At my worst I was smoking
nearly 2 packs a day but on average it was a carton every 2 weeks. My mother who is
a cancer survivor (twice) always hated my father and I smoking and reminded me every
chance she got. Well I’m happy to say, I’ve been analog free since November 2012 and
have been vaping everyday since. I started with 12/18mg now down to the 4/6mg
(probably because my Vamo never leaves my hand).

How did I get into e-cigs? Well, back in late 2011 my son (7mo at the time) was
hospitalized with bronchiolitis which is a nasty respiratory infection. We spent
nearly a week in the hospital with him hooked up to oxygen, monitors and IVs galore.
I refused to leave his side and never even went outside for a smoke. He came out of
it just fine but it scared the crap out of me, nothing worse than waking up to
alarms from his breathing monitor and Dr. and nurses running in at 2am. I figured at
that point I hadn’t had a cig in a week so why not quit since I knew I should
anyway. Deep down I blamed myself for him getting sick even though I never smoked
anywhere near him or in my house.

My vaping adventure started shortly after I fell back into the analogs after
“quitting” for 6 months. That was the longest I had ever been away from nicotine. It
was late summer and I had to do some work on my Jeep and between being in the garage
(where I always smoked) and my stress level I just couldn’t fight the urge. On my
third trip back from the parts store I pick up a 6pack and a pack of my trusty
Winston red 100’s. That pack lasted me a week cause I really didn’t want to start
again but having them near by was just to easy to grab. A couple months later a
friend of mine came to visit and he had some brand x e-cig that he had been using
and really wanted me to give it a try. I will say before I knew better I was
convinced that e-cigs were an expensive gimick, but a week later I picked up a
Mistic kit at Wally world and haven’t looked back. It took about 3 weeks of using
e-cigs and analogs before I was totally analog free. The ball just kept rolling from
there, I ordered a V2 kit then a V4L OMG vv with a couple tanks. Then I was show
your VISION EGO CLEAROMIZER V3 (I THINK) LONG WICK video, laughed my head
off and got hooked to your site. Now it’s a hobby 6 tanks and growing to many
flavors to list and my trusty Vamo. A friend of mine at work and I are even going to
Vapebash next month. (Hope to be able to say hello I’m sure you’ll be very busy) I
got him on the Mistic’s during a work trip and he quickly got the mod bug too. We’re
slowly converting our smoking co workers and their significant others into vapers
(about 6 so far).

I have a HH357 on the way after watching your video about dripping. Many moons ago I
was a home theater/audio tech, and when you talked about the CD on the studio
speakers I had to get one. I remember getting a disc from my car and playing it on a
system I could never afford for myself and wow! Sure I’ll say the same about my
juice.

Sorry for the long story and thanks again keep up the good work you are a great
asset to the community!

-JAY