Author: pbusardo

This (hopefully) brief email is to thank you so, so much for all your hard work in bring information to light for us, the masses, and in particular, to me and my wonderful wife. I’ll try to be brief, as I know you’re a busy man, but I will likely fail. Sorry about that.

I know you think of yourself as just some guy on the net, and are humble as the day is long, but you helped two people in Wilsonville Oregon throw out their cigarettes. Credit where it is due, you didn’t do it alone. Richard Mallard, Matt Culley, Ruby Roo, GrimGreen, etc. you folks are all fantastic advocates and are changing people’s lives. Seriously. You’re changing lives. For the rest of my story, read below. I hope it doesn’t trigger a nap or something.

I was a smoker off and on (mostly on) from the time I was 17 until a few months ago (thirty years, as I’m 48 now). I quit a few times, twice cold-turkey, and once using a well-reputed cigg-a-like company’s products (V2, in case you wondered). The latter wasn’t particularly satisfying, and in all cases I eventually went back to cigarettes, usually within a year or two.

I smoked the organic tobaccos, fooling myself into believing they were “better” for me, but I knew it would eventually kill me if I kept going in the direction I was headed. No male in my family had lived beyond their mid-fifties for over a century, and I woke up one morning realizing that milestone was just around my celestial corner. Heart disease, cancers, were all in the road map I was staring at.

I finally decided I needed something different. Something satisfying, intriguing (I’m a computer science and engineering guy for 25 years now), and above all, something that I truly enjoyed to the point I would find returning to cigarettes hideously loathsome. Vaping, real vaping, was it. Being an engineer, I started doing research. Tons of it. I searched videos, read articles, reviews, research papers. Name it; I investigated it in one form or another. Without ever setting foot in a vape shop I honed in on your reviews particularly, as they are monstrously informative and frequently very engineer-centric. My wife was interested as well, and was willing to give whatever I settled on a try. And so….

My first real vape rig:
– SX Mini M Class,
– Kanger Subtank Mini

Wife’s Rig:
– Aspire Nautilus Nano Kit with 1000mah battery.

It took me about two minutes to warm up to the new style of vaping. The moment I hit home I knew, I **knew**, this was it. I finally found it. Something that I was confident from DAY ONE would work. I’ve not touched a cigarette since. My wife wasn’t truly satisfied with here smaller rig, but didn’t want something that had complicated bells and whistles like my rig. She was still 50/50 on cigarettes. She was willing to try a small box mod and a larger atomizer (22mm) like mine. She wanted something she could forget charging for a day or two and would still have power to spare. A little more research, including more time in your videos, and I settled on a rig update for her:

Wife’s Rig (Part Deux)
– ELeaf I-Stick 50W. (the VW/VV is super simple on this mod)
– Kanger Subtank Mini (she wanted a larger tank that hit harder)

Running a 1.5ohm coil she only has to charge the thing about twice a week, and absolutely loves it. The flavor, the hit, all good and she’s no longer 50/50-ing with cigarettes. She’s 100% in the vape world and loving it. We’re both currently at 6mg (in fact, started there), and very happy with that.

Finally, clouds-bro’ was fun, but really just wasn’t my thing. I needed something different as well. Mind you, I didn’t need it, but I certainly wanted it, and perused mouth-to-lung satisfaction. Once again, I turned to research; once again, your videos. Not shocking, I decided to give a Kayfun v4 (authentic, directly from Svoemesto) a try. It is amazing (and occasionally frustrating). I currently run a 28-awg kanthal 7-wrap micro-coil at 1.4 ohms and 15 watts. Great battery life, tremendous flavor, thick, dense vapor (you used the term “juicy”, and it is quite-accurate). It is a complicated atomizer, and frankly I accidentally flooded the air-flow-control at least a dozen times in the first week alone. I finally found a process that works very well, and am now simply amazed by this device. The only real drawback is the weight when coupled with my SX Mini M Class. Good God that’s a dense rig for such a small handful.

Thank you Phil. I mean that. THANK YOU. I simply cannot wait until a vape expo comes somewhere near Portland Oregon and I can finally meet you and thank you in person.

Craig

hey there mr busardo, i just felt it was time to say thanks.
it was almost three years ago that i had my last cigarette! i went into my local b&m
bought a shitty little 650mah stick with some shitty kanger tank, now i say shitty
because well, they were shitty. what i did when i bought that setup was to leave my
half pack of cigs in my car which were readily available to me at any time. 2 days
went by with no smokes, a week went by with no smokes, then on the third week the
novelty started to wear off. i wasn’t getting satisfaction from my setup, and i was
thinking of having a smoke. needless to say is that i did not light that cigarette
up, it was not because of willpower to quit or because my kids nagged me, it was
because i realized that i was a slave to the cigarette! a fucking slave!! with my
new job i was allowed three breaks throughout a ten hour shift to got out for a
smoke and initially i huddled in the canadian cold like all the other slaves to suck
away as much as i could before it was time to go back in. back to that third week
when i went on my break to get some fresh air i instinctively walked to the smoke
shelter and realized that i did not need to go there, i did not belong there, i did
not want to go there. i decided to go to my car and open that half pack of
cigarettes and take a good look at them. i decided then that i was done with being a
slave to cigarettes. six seven months later my brother told me about yours and
grimms shows which triggered my curiosity, fast forward two years being cigarette
free i am vaping with not so shitty gear. following the trend in tc made me wonder
if youtube reviewers were smoking crack because i tried to build and vape similar
builds and could not get a good vape. then i realized that i also went through the
learning journey that most people who have been vaping for about three years, i
learned how to modify mechs to work, i learned how to chuck clouds safe, i learned
about how to enjoy vaping but more important is i learned to build what works best
for me. today i built my kayfun4 with ni200 reading .24 at 17w and 300f
and it is hands down the best tc vape i have had. i know its a high build to whats
out there but the flavor is fantastic. this morning i realized that i quit smoking
almost three years ago, my clothes do not smell, i do not smell, my kids do not
smell, my cars do not smell and most important i am not a slave to cigarettes.

i don’t think i have ever heard you give a shout out but if you ever do please give
a shout out to my brother paul pastras, it was his comments and help that kept me
cig free.

thank you for everything you do, it is very much appreciated

with much respect
angelo

This week, CASAA members have at least three opportunities to take action and stand up for access to vapor products.

1) Support HR 2058

Once again, thanks are in order for all of you that not only participated in our Federal Legislative Call to Action in support of HR.2058, but are also passing the opportunity along to your friends and sharing around the display cases at your local vapor shop.

THANK YOU!

To date, over 15,000 advocates have sent 67,000+ messages to members of Congress urging them to support a change to the grandfather date for newly deemed tobacco products. Certainly, those numbers are impressive and we need to keep the momentum going.

• If you haven’t already, please take action NOW to support HR.2058 – Send an Email

• Please print and post THIS FLYER at your local or favorite vapor shop.

• Please share the link below with friends, on social media, and at any large or small gathering of vapers:

⇨ www.bit.ly/supporthr2058 ⇦

2) Consumer Reports needs to hear your story!

The well read products and services review magazine seems to have failed to uphold its reputation as a rigorous and impartial investigator when it comes to electronic cigarettes. Recently, Consumer Reports published a tragically brief and incomplete analysis of available e-cigarette research picked straight from the cherry tree. Although it seems that Consumer Reports has concluded that the only acceptable way to quit smoking is by using FDA approved cessation products, the author did open up the comments section to actual consumers.

We think this is a wonderful opportunity for vapers everywhere to share their vaping success stories.

• If you have submitted your story to our Testimonials Project, please copy and paste it in the comments section on the Consumer Reports article. If you don’t have a copy of your story saved, you can use the search box to search your name on our testimonials site and grab your story from there.
• If you have not already submitted your story, please post it on the Consumer Reports article and then copy and paste it as a submission on our Testimonials Project.

Two birds;one stone.

3) FDA – Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR)

Deadline to submit comments is

September 30th!

CASAA’s latest FDA Call to Action is in response to FDA’s recent Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM). The FDA is seeking comment on “Nicotine Exposure Warnings and Child-Resistant Packaging for Liquid Nicotine, Nicotine-Containing E-Liquid(s), and Other Tobacco Products.”

We have provided details on how to prepare and submit your comment to the FDA.

• You can find the full call to action HERE.

Thank You,

Alex Clark – CASAA Legislative Director

A PBusardo Video – Some fun stuff – Last Contest Winner – New Contest

Not a lot going on in this video. We talk briefly about Italy, give a shout out to an e-liquid, search for a Greek restaurant :-), announce the last contest winner, and kick off a new one.

Battery in this video: LG Brown HG2 INR18650 3000mah 18650 : LGDBHG21865

The Links:
FlavourArt
The Fog Mafia
iJoy

The Video:

just a big ty for all you do . off ciggs for 2 weeks with the eleaf i stick
50 and aspire nautilis ! never looked back. The first vid i saw of you caught my
attention as you were wearing a Montauk t shirt. i grew up on LI. as it seems we are
relative neighbors, im from Waterport …about 45 minutes from you. i can’t stop
watching your you tube channel. you were a GOD send to me . Thanks So very much !
all my best, David

Your work is truly helping the world. Keep going. You’ve helped me so much. I have
zero desire for tobacco. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

Your conscientious reviews, objective analysis and practical advice has changed my
life forever. Midnight New years eve 2012 i smoked half a cig and realized how
disgusting it is. Haven’t looked back since.

You really did help me get to that next level beyond the ridiculous disposable/gas
station products and on to a place where I’m so satisfied and healthy! ❤️

My doctor approves 100% and i see her every three months.

Science is still on the way but anecdotally, I’m convinced that vaping results in
less, and slower nic absorption than ‘big tobacco’ products for, in my opinion, a
myriad of reasons we could delve into.

My Very Best Regards,
Robert

Hello Mr. Busardo. I just wanted to let you know I just recently made the
switch from cigarettes to vaping. It will be three weeks tomorrow. After watching
many reviews on YouTube to try to gather as much information as possible, I recently
found some of yours. I just wanted to say thank you. You have the most in depth
reviews of anyone I have found. Your 100% honesty is the best part of what you
offer. You have a new fan here. Once again thanks for what you do.