From João

Hello Phil.

My name is João, I’m 42 and I live in a beautiful seaside country of Portugal. Although I’ve never been a compulsive smoker (usually half-pack a day to one pack), I started smoking when I was 15 and never gave up. On 2009, I had my first experiences with an ecig – a cigalike. I stopped smoking immediately and, after a couple of months I stopped vaping also. I’ve been clean for more than one year but a professional problem gave me a stupid excuse to start smoking again. On September of 2014, passing by a new vape store I gave it another try and bought a trashy ecig. That was really the beginning of my great adventure. From that I got a Sigelei mod with a Nautilus mini, experienced with RDAs, then sub-ohming, got in love with RTAs and jumped on the temperature control train. You know the drill.

Now, I’m going to be very straight forward – when I first started to watch your videos on youtube, not that I didn’t like them, but they were not my favorite ones about vaping. They were too technical for me. I wanted to vape and know the fundamentals only, not to be an electronics engineer – simple as that. Seeing your deep analysis on the hardware was a bit overwhelming for me. One day I got across your Legal 2000 video and, I liked it so much that, since then, I’m a dedicated fan. I watch all your videos and I even started to like your technical explanations – and started to understand them also.

And why am I writing this to you? Well, I’ve seen your videos about the Vape Expo NJ and you seemed disappointed like I’ve never seen you before. So, this is a way to tell you that all this is worth. All the trouble you had in the Expo and all the other problems you already came across and all others you will still face in the future are a small fraction compared to what you do on your videos. You’ve been like a guiding light to us all. Your videos save lives. Might as well saved mine, you know?

There is no proper way to say how grateful I am, so, I’m just going to say thank you and keep up the good work, knowing that it will never be enough.

By the way, if, for any chance, you happen to come to Portugal, please contact me and I will be honored to invite you to eat our marvelous Portuguese food with a nice red Portuguese wine (or a freezing Portuguese beer if you prefer) and, of course, have a vape together.

Best regards

João