Category: Success Stories

Just wanted to thank you. Have smoked for 60 years now. Startwd trying
E-cigs about 6 years ago spent $100’s, 8+ differnt types. 6 months ago got eGo C
twist. Went from 1 1/2 packs of Pall Mall red 100’s to 2 to 4 cigs a day & will be
off them soon. Thought I would die with a cig in my mouth. Found your site doing
reserch on ITaste VTR. Am learning so much Thank you so much.
Tom

Hello Mr. Busardo. Just wanted to say thanks and share my continuing
success story. About a month or so ago a friend at work started talking to me about
vaping. I really had no clue and wasn’t understanding some of the stuff he was
talking about, but i was interested. I also knew of a vape store that was pretty
close to me, Poppie’s Vapor Lounge in Marlton NJ. So i went in hoping to learn some
more, but got kind of the same. Terms being used left and right that weren’t exactly
being explained. So after my visit there i did some reserach online and found your
site. Your glossary and intro videos cleared so much up. I have to say the glossary
was the biggest help. I went in with better knowledge and was able to pick out a
nice starting set up to help me kick a pack and a half a day habit. After purchasing
my first PV it took me 8 days to finish my last pack of cigs, and I am now smokeless
for 12 days and counting. As much of a success this has been, my biggest one will be
getting my mom to quit smoking as today I’m taking her to go purchase her first
vape. She’s been smoking for over 35yrs. Hoping this will finally be what helps her
quit as well. Thank you again for such a wonderfully designed site, and all its easy
access, useful information. I look forward to watching many more of your videos as i
see myself getting very much into vaping. I will be trying to cut my nicotine levels
down but I can see continuing to vape even if I’m down to 0 lol.

Thanks again,
Roy

Hey Phil,

Me and my fiancee Steph had an awesome time over the weekend at Vape Bash. I went in expecting to check out some stuff and just bum around but WOW! Not what happened. EVERYONE was friendly and was so easy to talk to.

A little background on my journey, I was a smoker for about 7 years and going on 1 to 1 1/2 PAD by last June. I had a few co-workers using cigalikes and cutting back just a little bit. I figure what the hell, i’ll give it a try. I didn’t really didn’t want to quit, but figured i should try for my 1 yr old daughter. Once i started investigating i found this community of people on ECF helping each other out. I soon found myself a new hobby. I was rebuilding my protanks, dabbling in drippers, and dreaming of a provari and a russian. Finally santa brought me both for christmas :). I have been using them everyday since enjoying my hobby.

Last weekend changed that. Seeing 4000 people of all races, genders, orientations, age, and whatever else differentiates us from each other, in the same place for one reason. We are vapers. Thats all we are to each other, vapers. I met Big on the first night at the bar and stuck up a conversation with him about his rebuild stand (which retails about 75 i think, I dont think you mentioned in the video) and it just started there. Sat down out side the event on saturday for a bit to cool off when Amber and Gypsy sat down with us. Soon to be joined by a few others and Ruby Roo and Josh. Me and Steph had the time of our lives in the “living room” that day, wish you could have joined us!

I went to Vape Bash with a hobby and some cash to spend on it. I came out with a passion and a few bottles of juice. I cannot wait for the next meet i can attend and i hope to see you there along with the other people i met over the weekend.

Thank you so much for videos and helping me along the way. I sent along the picture we took with you.

Thanks again,
Brian

Just wanted to say Thank You for your Amazing videos and informative site.
As a new vapor and now non smoker your site have helped guide me through what
started out as a very confusing hobby. I have since followed many of your
recommendations and supported Several of your recommended vendors with 100%
satisfying results. Just wanted to say thank you for your amazing work!

Hey Phil,

Just wanted to thank you for your entertaining and informative videos. Like most
everyone else, I started out (about 6 months ago) using ego batteries and
clearomizers. Not satisfied with the eliquids I was using–the tobaccos didn’t taste
like tobacco and everything else tasted a bit “chemically”–I looked for eliquid
recommendations online. And that’s how I happened upon your site and videos.

Thanks to you, Scot (igetcha69) and Todd (todd’sreviews)–but mostly you–I’ve now
moved on to higher quality, more tasty ejuice, mech mods and RBA’s–all of which
have enhanced my vaping experience, and kept me off cigarettes for the first time 30
years. I’ve looked to your reviews for guidance on what to buy and instruction on
how to use all these crazy devices.

I now use Kayfuns, a Taifun, an Oddy,a Spheroid (with my Microstick), a Sophia by
Leo and various carto tanks. My favorite, though, and one that you have yet to
review is the Rose by Eden mods. it’s looks may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it
is really an amazing RBA. I urge you to give it a try– easy to set up, never a
gurgle or dry hit, never a leak, and amazing flavor. Can’t wait to see what these
guys come up with next. If you want to give it a go before buying, I’d be happy to
lend to you to try.

Anyway, thanks again for your hard work.

Regards,

Giovanni

Hey Phil,
Just wanted to say hello and congrats. Congrats for three years of providing the
good advice and entertainment! I think you started “officially” with the site (I
think) in April 2011, so kudos to you. Just following up, doing great, using aspire
bdc, nautilus, on the provari and others. Just bought a kayfun lite plus, works
great, finally after 15 months, I have started doing rebuildables. Per your advice,
will probably buy the Kanger Mega, if they decide on the final set up. Like you, I
liked the original look, but everything always changes! As you said in your videos,
vaping has come a long way baby, just in my 15 months, it is amazing, for me, burnt
vivi novas to aspire nautilus and kayfun, go figure. Hope you and family are doing
great, be safe, I’ll keep watching, thanks man!
Gerald
Cumming, Georgia

Phil – Just a quick little note to let you know how much you have helped in
kicking the traditional smoking habit. I spent 9 years in the Marines and tried
several times to quit while I was in. As you could imagine, the monotony mixed with
the majority of my peers being smokers, it was not an easy task. From there I went
into law enforcement, which was pretty much another military environment and
quitting seemed just as difficult. Over the last couple of years I have tried a few
of the gas station e-cigs and found that they weren’t really cutting it. I heard
about the tank based systems but never payed any attention (assuming they were just
as unfulfilling as e-cigs). I was browsing on youtube one day and for some reason
decided I would click on a review of the iTaste VV 3.0. When I did this I was in
no way looking for useful information or ideas for quitting. The way you speak to
viewers, cover ALL bases, and provide technical information in an entertaining way
made me watch the entire video and seriously consider making a purchase. I ended up
buying one (what’s 30 bucks on ebay, right?), and absolutely LOVE it. I have not
touched a cigarette since, and enjoy Vaping (even more so than smoking). For
enjoyment I’ll find myself sitting in my patrol car and watching your reviews at 2
in the morning lol. I’ve since bought several different tanks and juices and am
trying to make my mind up on a bigger and more powerful mod. In short, I just
wanted to say thanks for providing EXCELLENT videos that give a vaping newcomer the
information to give a serious effort to quitting smoking.

Phil,

I have spent a lot of time thinking about writing this email and everything that I wanted to say. I have been analog free since January 2nd of this year. Before that I was a 2 pack + a day smoker for the last 25 years. Long story short, I had been extremely sick, to the point where I had already gone several days without being able to inhale. At the worst I felt myself struggling to breathe, and could see concern turning to fear in the eyes of my children. To say I was scared would be an understatement. So the morning of the 2nd I reached for one of the cigalikes I had laying around for long car trips with the kids.

As we all know, the taste was awful, the battery life was miserable, and in my heart I knew I was doomed to fail if I didn’t find something better. In the past I have jokingly referred to myself as a semi pro quitter. Aside from acupuncture and hypnosis, I have tried every other method out there, some of them a few times. The gas station specials I was using had all the same ear marks as the other methods I had tried, earmarks that I knew would result in me eventually turning back to the stinkies.

I knew there were other options out there and so I turned to the internet and started doing some rather desperate homework. I eventually stumbled upon both your and Grimmgreen’s videos and in both I found not only a direction to try, but more importantly confirmation that there was better, and most important of all… I found hope.

I immediately went out and purchased an ego style twist starter kit and a bunch of different juice at various nic levels. Over the last three months vaping has gone from a life saver to a hobby, and I have gone from 12mg down to 3 or less.

This last week I was at my company’s annual summit, and while I didn’t have to vape outside, I did so anyway. I welcomed the questions and shared what I have learned, much of it from watching your videos. I recommended your videos and website so many times I lost count. The day before we left one of those smokers let me know he and his wife had decided to go for it and had ordered their first starter kits. Aside from the couple mentioned above, I know at least two other smokers have made the switch as well.

I thank you and my children thank you as well. I have heard you say many times that you didn’t / can’t reach through the screen and make us stop smoking and your right. What you do though is nearly as important. You inform us, entertain us, and in a way I find difficult to explain you serve as part of a support group.

Hey Phil:
I wanted to let you know about how you have helped me. I will try to be short but it’s a long story. In 2007 I had to have an infusion and I had an anaplactic shock to it and ended up in a coma for 3 weeks. My heart almost stopped working and it stopped supplying blood to my legs. I had to have both amputated below the knee. They all thought I was going to die but obviously I didn’t. I hadn’t smoked in 1 1/2 months but when I had that first one I was off and running. It wasn’t till 2009 that I tried vaping. I had the old cig style batteries and cartomizers. I tried making my own with the stuff you get at the pet store they use for aquarium filters. Tried tea bags. Never was really happy with it tried probably $500 worth of juices. When they came out with the DCT’s I thought but I was still smoking about a 1/2 a pack. I have never bought from a brick and mortar cause we don’t have any good one. I got a GGTS when they came out and burned up IDK how many atomizers. Went back to the carto tanks and got a Silver Bullett. When the Provari came out I ordered on right away the VV really intrigued me. It worked great and I was pretty happy. Found a juice vendor HHV that I liked the liquid and all of a sudden the vendor I was using for my cartos started getting some really crummy ones at about this time I found out I was going to have to have my aortic valve replaced so had to stop analogues completely. Found a new vendor for my cartos SmokTek. Had my Open Heart Surgery in 2012 and it didn’t go as planned so I ended up with much the same problem I had before. I started watching your videos in that area of time in the dark room. They have come a long way. My cardiologist wanted me off nicotine all together so was working my way down. HHV mixed up different nic levels then they advertise and I am down to 3mg. Got my wife to stop smoking and start vaping after only 4 years of nagging. With all the equipment coming out I really started watching your videos to find out what would make the juice better. That’s when I started writing to you and have since gone to the Bottom Coil Tanks because of your reviews and I am so much happier with my flavors. My wife is using up my DCT stash, only thing she likes. I am going to some of HHV’s other flavors which have “Street Shout Outs” My next order will be Omg nic and 40/60 wife still needs the 60/40 and 3mg but she has been off anologs for 3 months. This came out way too long sorry Phil.
I know this can use some editing, shortening and paragraphs but wanted to thank you for all your help. I’m 64 years old and smoked since 16 especially after I joined the Army at 17 back when a lot of the guys were there by choice either Army, Marines or Jail. I wasn’t one of those but had a lot of friends that were.

Patrick

Hi Phil, I wanted to share a short story. I quit smoking and started
vaping 5 month ago. I had to take a lung capacity test this week for work and my
results were that of a non smoker. I was a pack and a half smoker with a lot of
problems and look at me now! I’m very happy and very grateful to have such an
awesome resource as yourself to help guide me toward better decisions and a better
vape. THANK YOU!!!!