Category: Success Stories

Dear Phil,

I hope you do not receive tons of bothering mails and please excuse my unperfect English.
Just felt like thanking you. I`m thankful for you entertaining me and sharing a part of your life, being quite a funny guy and teaching a lot about my newest “hobby”.

My personal story will be as many others, I’ve been a smoker since I was about 16 years old – being 46 years old meanwhile this is far too long, when thinking back. Been trying to get off from this addiction for several times, but the longest period was for nearly two years back in the nineties. I always liked smoking, not for taste, maybe even not fort he drug nicotine itself. Rather for having a good time while handling a cigarette. I think, the addiction is more of “donating” yourself with something – must not be a cigarette…

Last year around March I had a really bad time and tried to get off smoking once more, but that time I read an article about “vaping” and decided to just give it a try, ordered immediately a “Kangertech Evod Mega” on amazon, which seemed to be nice and handy, having no idea about anything besides the basic functionality of vaping gear.

The day it arrived was my last day of smoking. Period. Found my way out off the “stinkies”.

After some days I started to discover the world of vaping 🙂 Read everything I could find, watched my first YouTube videos – as I guess as nearly every German speaking person I started with Phil good and his “liquidhimmel”. I was kind of surprised to see a guy approximately my age, having years of his vape-story shared on YouTube. Helped me alot getting into it.

Shook my head on the uncountable amount of “reviewers” on YouTube, partly annoying, partly just to laugh about.

I remained with a handful of them I really like – vapingwithvic, vapingbiker, thevapingbogan and of course the funny guy from far away in America called Phil 🙂 Oh and I like DJLSB for his technical stuff, although I thinks it’s quite hard to listen to him for a longer time…

I was deeply impressed, how big the community is, how extremely fast growing the industry around this marked is, especially in China – so I really loved your “trip-videos” a lot. Are you planning further trips by the way ?

So, this got far too long as I was afraid before – but I didn’t just want to say “thank you”. Although I think this is the only important content. Just go on with your good work, have a good time, don’t let yourself be taken down by that asshole of a disease and best regards from Germany,

Dirk

Vaping And Reversing What Smoking Has Done To Me

I am a 59 year old male. I smoked for well over 40 years and was a 3 pack a day smoker. I have been vaping for quite a few years and fell of the wagon twice, but got back on and have not smoked for close to a year now.

A few years ago I was obese and at an extremely poor fitness level. My blood work was always a mess, I developed blood clotting issues, and was diagnosed with diverticulitis. I was hospitalized probably half a dozen times with an abscess in my colon, and twice I had sepsis from the infections.

They said I had to have surgery to remove an 8 inch section of my colon, and I had to get my heart and lungs checked before they could do the surgery. My lung test showed that I had COPD, and my stress test did not come back good so they had to do a catheterization of my heart. It showed no blockage, but it did show that a small part of the bottom of my heart was slightly enlarged, and they told me I could have had a mini heart attack at some point.

I contribute all of this to 40+ years of heavy smoking.

They still did the surgery, but they told me I had to exercise and lose weight or I wouldn’t be around too much longer. They recommended walking for exercise.

This scared me enough to start walking every day. I walked sometimes 2, 3, 4 times a day. At first I could only walk a mile at a slow pace (about 3 mph), and then I had to lay down because I thought I was dying. I bought an activity tracker and started logging my food intake and walking faster and further every day. I started losing a lb. a week, and in the first year I lost over 50 lbs., and was able to power walk for 10 miles at a 4.5+ mph pace. I could keep my heart rate in zone 4/5 for over an hour, and probably increased my lung capacity by at least 30 percent.

About 8 months ago I started having trouble keeping my heart rate up high enough from just walking so I started adding run intervals into my power walks. I started with 30 second intervals, then 1 minute, then 2 minutes. Now I can run 5 miles non stop.

My blood work comes back completely normal now, and I just recently had an echocardiogram and another stress test done which came back 100 percent normal. My resting heart rate that used to be in the high 80’s is now in the high 50’s to low 60’s. My doctor is in AWE of me and uses me as an example for his other patients.

So. If you have damaged yourself from smoking as I did. you CAN reverse many of the damage through exercise. Diet alone will not do it. You have to put the work in to get to a good fitness level, and that will in turn enable you to maintain a healthy body weight, and your body will fix itself as mine seems to be doing.

I still want to lose another 10 to 15 lbs. and increase my fitness level to be able to run 10 miles, but I’m almost there.

So… don’t just quit smoking and start vaping… get up off your butts and fix dat sh*t…:)

Thank you

I am not expecting a response as you probably get a ton of emails. Yet if this email
happens to reach you I just wanted to say thank you!

I am a 30 year old Canadian from northern Ontario. I was a pack, sometimes pack and
a half per day smoker for 14 years. Coming from Greek decent all of my family
smokes :(. Two years ago I was introduced to vapping while on YouTube and stumbled
across your channel.

I went out and purchased my first e cig. Kang e vod. It worked for about 3 weeks
then fell back into the death trap of smoking as at that point our town did not have
a vape shop.

Today after 6 attempts to stay in the vapping wagon. thanks to your videos and the
new vape shop I am now 1 and a half years in without ever touching a cigarette. I
have 2 young boys and thanks to your videos keeping me informed I can stay healthy
for myself and my family.

I thank you for all your advocacy and keep up the great website and YouTube channel.

Your Canadian friend

Emmanuel

Dear Phil,

I have been following you on YouTube for quite some time without saying “Thank you”
for that.

My father had a very serious health issue few years ago – arteries clogging. He had
been smoking cigarettes from his youth and it was somehow clear that smoking played
a significant part of that problem.

I had started to look arround how to help him. Vaping was already on its way to
spread and YouTube was (and still is) fantastic channel how to learn things. I have
just realized that it has been some 6 years since I purchased him the first ecig
set. It was eGo-T.

Fortunately, my father wanted to make some changes in his life so my role was just
to help him and offer an easy and sustainable way. As far as I know he has not
touched a single cigarette since than and now he is enjoying vaping. He is not
getting younger but he is doing fine 🙂

I will always remember your ViVi Nova rebuild video which has started my rebuilding
era. Since than dozens and dozens of your reviews are of big help.

I like the way you do your videos a lot. Starting with shooting itself – quality,
details, lighting, sound and your cave :). I like the way you describe technical
specification, your personal experience, different set ups and by the way your
English… which is really nice and easy to understand. Your humor fits to mine
perfectly as well…

Let me thank you once more and wish you all the best and I hope you will continue
updating your channel with new stuff. It makes sense.

I remain your big fan.

Miloslav
Czech Republic

My name is Mark Lagnese. I live on Long Island, New York. I was a NYPD cop for 20 years, with the last 17 years working the midnight shift pushing a sector car. Sadly I was a smoker as well. Easy 3 pack a day kind of smoker. Everyone knew me for either having a cig or coffee cup in my hand. Back in 2014, at the ripe old age of 52, after being a heavy smoker for most of my life, I suffered a heart attack that turned into bypass surgery. Wasn’t fun at all.( yes, I’m in the Zipper Club) To be totally blunt, I could have walked out of the hospital after my surgery and had a cigarette with no questions asked. Thank god my girlfriend handed me a Nautilus tank with a stick battery.I haven’t had another cig since then. So for me, Aspire saved my life, besides my surgeon. Today I own and use 5 Nautilus minis, with the BVC 1.8 coil, that I rotate. I never push my beliefs on other smokers, unless they ask, then it’s game on! So far, I have weaned 2 of my friends off cigarettes and into the world of vaping. I am a very generous person by nature, so I always give anyone who asks, 1 mod and 1 Nautilus tank to help them out. Of course I fill the tank with a plain tobacco eliquid, usually 12 nic to start. My advise to them is give it at least 5 days to try. And if you don’t like it, give it back. It’s that simple. Safe to say, I didn’t get my stuff back because they quit cigs and vape now. Vaping to me has become more then a helping hand, but a hobby as well. I have many subtanks and mods as well. I have tasted more ejuice then most vapers want to admit to. Check out my instagram (marklagz) and you’ll understand what I mean. But, after all of that, Nautilus is what keeps me smoke free. I feel I owe Aspire a debt of gratitude. That tank has been my work horse since the day I walked out of the hospital. I just hope they never stop making it. I am ready to give the Nautilus2 a shot. I have high hopes for it and others who want to quit cigarettes. I will be buying the usual 3 to start with as soon as they are on sale. Because you never know, another friend might want to ask for help. Thanks for all you do Phil. I know I didn’t mention it in my story but I do watch your videos and enjoy them a lot. Feel free to use my name, I have nothing to hide for being a vaper and x-smoker. If anything, I am proud of myself and all the work I put into being smoke free. Thanks again, Your friend, Mark

Dear Phil,

How are you doing?

Thanks for the great Vid of the Nautilus 2 as well as all Videos from you that i saw
until now.

I changed from smoking to Vaping about 190 days ago. I started with the CE4
Clearomizer to give Vaping a try. The try went okay but i was still on risk to get
back to smoking. I bought a Nautilus and tried it. With these BVC coils i felt that
i never will fall back to smoking as the vape satisfied my needs. Of course, i
improved my setup. Kabuki, Kayfun 4 and 5, mech mod, TC, Subohm competition RDA to
try around. The Kabuki is a fantastic tank with the BVC coils and i can always rely
on it as well as Nautilus mini and Nautilus. With some coils and tanks laying around
in car/at work/at home i know that i’m not on risk to fall back to smoking, even if
my Kayfun 4 is my “always stay with me” RTA, due to the BVC coils, i know that i can
always vape where i even if the kayfun fails (what not happened since i got it)
Additionally i like the vape my ProVari as well as on mech mod. When you talk about
the “slight pulsing” in TC or an incontinious vapor production, i have the feeling
that i understand it as well as your explenation about the “wide,open” taste from
the Kabuki compared to the taste from the Nautilus 2 which might taste “tight”. This
explenation keeps me away from spending my money on the Nautilus 2 as long as i
don’t need it, but that i could also rely on it if i go abroad and something fails
or due to FDA / TPD regulations, i couldnt get anytheng else.

Your decision to review more stuff for beginners and MTL people is great even if i
also try subohm and cloudchasing.

I would also like to thank you for supporting me to stay away from smoking with your
Videos and your reviews, thank you for your engagement in the fight for vaping. Feel
free to use parts or my Name of this mail in your videos.

Cheers,
Alex

Dear Phil,
I’m old enough to remember the times when the internet was not around
and how struggling it was to source information. Now days information is
all around but the struggle is still there, this time in sourcing
quality information.

Many people believe that addiction is a matter of will. As a
professional psychologist with a background is neurosciences I can
assure you it is most definitely not. It has, on the other hand,
everything to do with changes in precise structures of the brain,
heavily influenced by the environment itself connected to the compulsive
gesture by which the addictive substance is consumed. Moreover, every
failed attempt in braking an addiction might build up a resistance in
future attempts.

I wanna thank you for providing the quality information I needed to
maximize my chances of transitioning to vaping and break free of an
habit I can now see, after only a couple weeks, as the disgusting thing
it really is.

Please keep up your great work. Should you need anything that falls
under my abilities, you just have to ask and I will gladly return the favor.

DV

Phil, you and Provari were so instrumental in beginning my journey to kick a 27 year pack to pack and a half a day Marlboro Red habit that I never in a million years imagined I would ever conceive of myself ever quitting. Cigarettes were such a ridiculously large part of my life as I watched it take 1 relative after another while blindly believing it would never happen to me. Blindly believing the heavy chest, coughing fits, and inability to climb a short set of steps without running out of breath. I remember the checkups with the doctor giving me 1 suggestion after another with drugs, patches, gums, lozenges, and inhalers to try for quitting with one failed attempt after another. Finally there is a technology that has worked! I haven’t had a cigarette in 3 years. My wife hasn’t had to nag me about the stink, febreeze my clothes, and constantly worry about what the cigarettes were doing to my health. I watch these commercials to prompt us all to quit smoking while watching my Government try to remove the one thing that has worked to get me off of cigarettes because you and I know they are losing too much tax money and the Big Tobacco lobby is muscling them to think their way.

I have said it before, and I will continue to say it…..keep up the great work! You provide such an important service in your entertaining style of education. Keep using your voice to educate the vendors on their marketing and child proof caps. You have no idea how the strength of your voice has made this world a better place as one smoker at a time puts the cigarettes down and picks up their first device.

Thank you SO much for what you do.

Hello Mister Busardo,

I would just like to say thank you! For being such a kind, funny, intelligent,
talented and honest reviewer.

When i’m getting a new device or tank, i always look you up first and i could just
listen to you all-day-long.

There are also other good reviewers who are not
annoying (Richard ng i like also, because he’s so down to earth and real)(just like
you are: real), but you’re my favorite!

I really appreciate your hard work.

I hope you get enough of these messages, because people don’t often understand how much of your time and
efforts this takes from you. Some people just take it for granted and always criticize.

I could never do what you do. I don’t even know HOW you do it. But you DO.

If it wasn’t for you, i would never understand how to coil and wick certain tanks! I would be so lost.

I wish you a good health and i will keep watching your videos.

I’m now ten months smoke-free and i’ve convinced a lot of people around me to guit too.
(My parents, husband, friends, co workers..)

I want the whole world to quit smoking! 🙂

xx

Have a great day and
with very kind regards.
Michelle from Belgium

Phil,

As you know I have watched your reviews since started vaping since Oct 2014 and have chatted from time to time about devices. I bought an evic mini which worked good with the nautilus tank. Then back to the pen style. So I usually purchased online, but decided to go to the brick and mortar “Vast Vapor”. I was going in for a AIO that you reviewed with high praise. Told the guy about how you recommend and we started talking about you all good of course. Was interesting how one of there prior job requirements was to watch your videos to learn specifics. Now you can add to your resume “Employee training adviser”. Vast Vape nice store have a selection and clean. They told me to give you a shout and say Hi from them. Also enjoying AIO just what I needed going to pick up another this week.

I seriously think in my opinion that if it was not for your videos that I would have
been too frustrated with devices that I would have started the sticks again. God
sent you are “Following your passion”

Thanks for all you do always.

Nick