Category: Success Stories

Pete PBusardo,
Hey man just wanted to let you know that I recently seen one of your videos on you
tube. I was looking for feed back on a vape device and there you where. I am in a
position that at 36 years old my health is not the greatest ( 4 surgeries) since Oct
2015 and my wife is the sole provider at this point. To make a long story short we
quit smoking for going on 8 months now and we have only used the ego style vape pens
since. I wanted to upgrade so my choice of shopping is Craigslist do to my financial
situation. I have been looking at a few used ones and wasn’t sure of the quality so
I ran into your video and been a fan ever since. AS luck would have it I have no
money and wanted this so I had to sell some hunting stuff (I also wanted to buy a
exercise bike for my wife). I a few things and got some money and a eVic VTC mini
kit was just listed. This unit was 2 days old and used for about an hour. The guy
that was selling it fairly cheap. I wanted to see your review on it. You gave it a
good review and I feel that you can be trusted so I purchased. I have to tell you I
bought unit with seller having receipt of purchase that he paid $120 for kit,
battery and juice sold it to me for $25. I charged it used it all day here and got
to tell you its perfect for me even though not sure if I am crazy about the ego ONE
tank. I wanted to thank you for your reviews,because a lot of us are dumb,
misinformed, or just not knowledgeable enough about it. And for this unhealthy poor
bastard you put a smile on my face(much needed)
Thankyou Nick

Just want to say a huge thank you for your help. I’m am one of your UK followers
And I’ve been smoke free for 10 weeks now.
It began by stumbling across one of your review videos on YouTube. Now, 10 weeks on
any after watching many of your videos, I have finally kicked the habit.
I settled for a cool fire IV plus , and have my handy nautilus tank , isub A & G,
and kanger mini in my Arsenal. Not quite ventured into re building just yet, I’m
still using stock coils. Love MTL as it gives me that satisfied feeling, although a
good direct lung once in a while for some really good flavour goes down a treat.
Thanks for your reviews and I suppose your support (although indirectly). You really
have helped me. Can’t wait for the next video. Keep up the great work.
Matt

I just have to thank you for all you wisdom. I have been snuff and cig fre
now for 4 weeks and love to watch you channel. Like you I love mouth to lung. Have a
Innokin T18 and T22 but now looking for the next mod. Thank you again for a super nice channel.
Best regards
Jesper

Phil,

Today is a very important day for me: it’s been a year now since I quit smoking,
thank to you. After 40 years of smoking tobacco cigarette, I watched your videos in
February 2015 and bought my first device, March 24, 2015. I never smoked a cigarette
since then.

It was so a revelation to me that I decided to share my findings with other people:

Thanks to you, I have converted four people: my sister, 58 years old (8 months
vaping after 40 years of smoking), my nephew, 25 year old (9 months vaping), my
sister-in-law, 48 years old (8 months vaping after 30 years of smoking) and my
brother-in-law, 50 years old (8 months of vaping after 35 years of smoking).

Thanks to you, I am convinced that I have increase my chances to live longer.

Thanks to you, I will be able to see growing up my two grandchildren longer (3 1/2
years old little girls and 1 year old little boy).

Thanks to you, my grandchildren will have the chance to see their grandfather longer
that I had with my grand parents.

Thanks to you, I will be able to have good times with my son and daughter longer.

Thanks to you, I will be able to love my wife longer.

I am so happy today that I wanted to share it with you. My greatest wish for the
future is to meet you in person to express my happiness. I am still a big fan of
yours

Phil Busardo, thanks to you.

Your friend forever,

Denis

Denis, THANK YOU! But THANKS SO YOU! It was you who had the strength to get off the cigarettes. Thanks to YOU your friends and family are off the cigarettes. Give yourself all the credit! Never take that away from yourself. Maybe I just helped a little!

I wanted to drop you a note about the DNA 200 video series. First
wow…jesus man…nearly 4 and half hours worth of video I am truly impressed by
your dedication to the science of vaping, and yes I did watch all of it…painful at
times but immensely informative. Brings me to my second point, been on the fence for
awhile about getting a dna200 device namely because of how advanced, detailed, and
complicated it is. After watching your videos, I realize how clunky my cuboid is,
and that I shouldn’t be afraid of a DNA200 mod. As soon as I get the money together
I will be getting one (prob wiztech Reuleaux) namely due to your series. It is
beyond obvious the time you spent behind the camera preparing for the series, and I
know you probably do not get many positive comments back. So, I will say man keep up
the quality it is so refreshing to see a review step away from subjective
information and into objective quantitative information. Take care and enjoy a vape
well earned.

Daniel

Hi Phil – I hope all is well with you. I want to thank you for everything you have done, endured, and taught over the last 4 years that I’ve known you (electronically, that is). In 2 weeks, it’ll be 4 years being smoke free, after a 16 year, 30 a day habit. I had tried to quit several times – and like many – failed. I enjoyed smoking and my tobacco habit covered everything from cigarettes, to roll-your-own, to pipes and cigars. Patches and gum never worked for me. I thought, at the time, that I was going to die smoking, and had resigned to that fact.

I had heard about electronic cigarettes and when I started doing some research, I stumbled across one of your reviews. Based on your openness, straightforward, manner. I decided to give it a try. I was skeptical at first, but kept at it, finding something that worked for me. Two weeks later, I had “accidentally” quit. Not quite trying hard (like I had to with patches or gum), simply by being. There’s nothing that I can write that can express the gratitude I have for someone like you.

Your videos, your continued support to the community, and all that you do for us is something that I greatly appreciate. You, along with Dimitris, inspired me to open a shop in Costa Rica, where, indirectly, both of you have helped over a 1,000 people to switch.

If there’s anything we can ever do for you, please let us know, even if it’s just being your hosts here in Costa Rica.

Cheers,

Rodolfo

How are doing this fine day Phil. Just wanted you to know if it wasn’t for
your you tube channel I would still be smoking those stinky sticks. I love your
reviews and I just got some vape mail from fasttech yesterday and it was the freemax
Starre tank that was part of your review on sub ohm tanks and all I can say this is
the best tank I have, and I have many, and I love it. The flavour of my juice has
never tasted better and I love the cloud production. Keep up the good work that you
and so many others do to help people get off the stinky sticks. You have a fan of
yours for life. vape on my brother.

Dear Phil (Mr. Busardo!)
I don’t tend to do these kind of emails / contacts but wanted to give you a quick
note of genuine and heartfelt appreciation for what you do and to let you know just
how much you have helped me in my vaping journey over the last 12 months.

I struggled for a long time to move away from tobacco cigarettes and whilst I
dabbled in starter level vape kits I never found “the one” device that allowed me,
or got me to, quit them completely. Through your videos I have discovered tanks and
devices that all of a sudden gave me a completely satisfying flavour, for it’s this
that matters to me, and completely satisfying experience out of my vaping that was
enough to flip that switch in my mind to let go once and for all from cigarettes.
The first of those tanks being the Kayfun 4 which is still my go-to tank through the
day. Of course, as you will know only too well, once that switch flips you seek to
broaden that satisfaction to suit different moods and I’ve expanded that experience
to include a Marquis RDA, a Kayfun Mini v3 (just because!) and now a Hurricane to
try out temp control (that works!!). Each of these purchases has been down to your
thorough and highly entertaining reviews which are always enjoyed whether it’s a
device or tank for me or not, but then that’s the beauty of this industry now, there
really is something for everyone. What I can say, 100%, is that 1. I will not go
back to cigarettes, and 2. My bank balance has suffered from your efforts! 😉

So once again thank you, and please keep doing what you are doing because I am a
true example of someone you have taken away from the dark side and into the foggy
light.

Kind regards to you and your family.
Mark – UK.

Hello Phil,

I started smoking at the age of 13 in highschool because it was ‘cool’ and ofcourse before i knew it i was hooked.
Fast forward 16 years, i am now 29 and i’ve developped a nice smoker-cough and my health is getting worse and worse, I tried quitting a couple of times but failed, so be it back to at least a pack a day.
Then, this one day, at a birthday party, a friend who had been smoking forever introduces me to vaping and i give it a try on her evod and i was stunned, this could actually work!

A day or two passed and the little evod puff stayed in my mind as i was coughing my lungs up so one night i searched youtube for evod and found a lot of videos about it (this is where i found Pbusardo), i watched a couple and came to the conclusion that if all these people managed to quit smoking using products like this, i can do it too!

A couple of days later my friend took me to the local vape shop and after trying some products i got my very own evod starter kit and some liquids. It was on their doorstep on february 27th 2014 at 11 in the morning that i put out my last cigarette.

And so, as i am celebrating my 2nd vapeversary today i just wanted to send you a ‘little’ thank you note for the amazing work you’re doing in the vaping world. If it weren’t for you i’d probably still be puffing away on the little evod kit i kicked the cigarettes with. Nowadays i enjoy rebuilding and even making my own juice has become a part of the hobby.

I still prefer a nice relaxing MTL vape however i do also enjoy a clouding session on a subtank every once in a while. I’ve ordered the new Kayfun mini v3 as a little gift to myself for my vapeversary and i just heard they are going to have expansion tanks available to increase it to a 3.6 or 4.2ml capacity, yay!!

I was just watching a random youtube video of someone receiving the silver play button for 100.000 subscribers and it made me wonder if you ever received this token of appreciation, i couldn’t recall ever seeing it in your videos. In my opion you deserve it like no other! Your in-depth reviews and tests of every thinkable parameter (yes i remember the cartotank pull force tester) are just an amazing guideline in buying new vape gear. Also I really enjoyed the ‘How It’s Made’ series from China and last but certainly not least the LegalVape 4000 (TC).

Thanks again and please keep doing what you’re doing and fight for your right to vape!

Over here in Europe it seems it’s too late with the TPD being introduced in may this year, in fact here in The Netherlands there are regulations since february 2015 that ban tanks over 2ml and juice bottles over 10ml (and 20mg nic), they were introduced in preparation for the TPD through the so called ‘Temporary E-Cigarette (Commodities Act) Decree’, you can read more about it here:https://www.government.nl/topics/smoking/contents/regulation-of-e-cigarettes should you have the time or interest for it.

Despite all of that negative bullsh*t i’m quite convinced vaping is here to stay and that all of us will #keepitgoing 😋 .
Over the past 2 years i’ve invited several family members and friends along on the vaping journey and i’m happy to report that all of us haven’t touched a single cigarette since our first vape.

Greetings from across the pond, sorry for the wall of text in dodgy English

Bas from The Netherlands

Mr. Busardo-
Just wanted to write a few words to say how much I enjoyed today’s review video, it
really hit home with me. My wife and I are hitting 3 years smoke free this month,
after 35+ years of smoking for me, and 40 for her While we are probably not your
typical vapors, she still likes to use Kangor T3s on an ego style stick, and I’ve
been using a Kayfun lite v2 for the past couple of years. I rarely drip anymore, and
never did away from the house. Your video today really hit home with the mouth to
lung vs lung hitters. I believe another thing that would help advocacy is for people
to be more aware of their surroundings. Big clouds are a turnoff for people who
don’t know and don’t understand the benefits over smoking. I turned around and left
a vape shop recently when I opened the door and couldn’t even see the counter.
Probably not converting too many smokers there I would guess. I have seen a
promising trend recently with you reviewers getting back to some of the starter type
mods and kits to get more people off the cigs. A welcome change from a seemingly
endless period of sub tanks and 200 watt mods. Sorry for the long rant, keep up the
great work.

Thx, Russ