Category: Success Stories

Hey Phil. I just wanted to thank you. Your reviews are awesome. I first
found out about you when I was looking for a review for a Vamo on YouTube. (The Vamo
is the reason I quit smoking. 2 months analog free now.) From then on I started
watching your other reviews. I must say, you are very good at what you do. I find
your reviews very informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work and thank
you. Brian

Dear, Phil
I have smoked for about 4 years now and have switched to vaping. Recently I started
to fall of the wagon and started smoking again a few weeks later I saw a post of
yours on YouTube and you have inspired me again and have been some free ever since.
Im now interested in vaping to a whole new level, so I would like to thank you
myself and on behalf of my family for helping me become a healthier being. So thank
you again Phil for what you have done

Max

Hey, I just wanted to send a sincere thank you for the mountain of
information you have made available, specifically the youtube reviews. After
spending almost two years on the Ego (with a mega cartomizer), then the Ego-T
system, I decided to take my vaping to the next level. I settled – no, screw that, –
I did it right, and just ordered a Provari mini with the Kanger Protank II. If it
had not been for our outstanding reviews, I have dropped a lot of money on the
Z-Atty Pro as my only tank, which would have been a mistake. Don’t get me wrong, I
expect I will one day get the Z-Pro for my end-of-day relaxing time, but the Protank
will be far better for portable vaping. I also would have “saved money” on the Vamo
2, only to be unhappy with it. Your balanced review did not rip the Vamo, but I
clearly is not for me.

Anyway, I can tell you spend a lot of time on those reviews and they are so perfect.
I don’t need people just taking a drag, showing me the vapor, and saying “best ecig
ever” or “it sucks”. Your information is thought out, thorough, and sincere. And I
REALLY appreciate the time you spend on “rehashing the stuff that noobs may not
know”. I just wanted to let you know that there is an “experienced noob” out there
who really appreciates it.

Thanks again,
nosmokie

Hey Phil, Just another noob success story. First and most important,
thanks for all you do. Your total effort and experience do not go unappreciated to
me, and for that I thank you, my wife thanks you and my baby boy thanks you. I’ve
been off the smokes for about 3 months now. I feel better, have more energy and I
don’t stink of smoke. I started with the ol’ EVOD starter kit, then mini Zmax w/
iclear16 and I just built my first coil with K100 and RSST just like your vid. All
I can say is “holy heaven’s nectar!” Thanks for changing my life for the better.
Cheers bro…. I’d buy ya the biggest and coldest beer in the world.

Hi Phil I’ve been vaping about two months and have been watching your
videos on youtube like crazy. I use to be a half a pack a day smoker and also smoked
my pipe and cigars on the side and recently got into vaping when my sister bought me
a starter kit. I came across your reviews when I was at the store All About Vapor
that’s down the road from my house. I found your channel on youtube and subscribed
and have been watching a few videos each day. I wanted to thank you for making these
videos fun to watch and easy to understand. I had a really hard time the first few
weeks I started vaping because I couldn’t find information explaining the stuff
anywhere and the people at the All About Vapor store are always really nice and
helpful but its busy from open to close with usually an hour wait (guess that’s what
happens when your one of the only and the best vapor store in the greater Austin
area) and your videos have really helped to give me a good grasp on vaping, the
different mods, devices, and other cool things I didn’t know was out there. Its
actually kinda funny since I now know more about vaping than my friends do.

I recently even purchased an Innokin SVD when the girl at the store suggested I look
at getting that instead of getting a Zmax and the fist thing I did when I got home
and check to see if you had a review, which you did and after watching it I was
sold.

So all in all I simply wanted to say thanks. I tried my hand at doing some youtube
stuff (granted I wasn’t great with the video editing tool but such is life) so I
know its a huge undertaking and I just hope you’ll keep at it.

Thanks again and hope this message finds you in good spirits.

Mike

I just wanted to write and say thanks for all the videos and information
you have provided. When I first started doing research on electronic cigarettes and
making the switch I read page after page of information and ended up alot more lost
than I was in the first place. And then I came across your new vaper video. it
provided more detailed information and was a lot easier to understand than
everything I was reading. Now here I am, totally cigarette free for the last four
months. My breathing is way better, I can actually smell things better (which is not
always a good thing), stuff like food and sweets taste better, and I’m not sure if
anyone else experienced this, but when I smoked I would get bad headaches and have
not had a headache since I switched. you realize how truly awful it smells after you
quit and you still hang around friends that smoke, but so far I have got two of them
to trade in the analogs for electronics by suggesting that they watch your videos
and check out your site. Thanks for all you do.

Thanks! I am new to the scene. I quit cigs. 4may2013. I have you to thank. Your reviews helped me out (very much). Do what you do! and keep the VIVI nova away from the tonsiles.!HAHAHA

Hey, Phil…

Thanks for the excellent reviews and videos. I’m a newbie at this whole vaping
thing, but, after 50 years of smoking, I decided to give it a shot. If it weren’t
for you and a few other knowledgeable reviewers out there, I wouldn’t know how to
start! My local “brick & mortar” vape shops are mostly in the business of selling
garbage at pumped-up prices, so your input and expertise are appreciated.

Keep up the good work, bro.

Phil,
Hi from the South Coast of the UK! I’ve been vaping for 4 months. After a
pack a day for 20 years I made the switch and never looked back. I started
with a basic Ego/CE5 kit, which was fine. For a while. I then decided to
look for bigger and better. For a beginner the vaping world is a
minefield,but luckily I stumbled upon you and your fabulousness. (Phil the
Fabulous, it has a ring to it no?) Anyway, after watching hours of your
footage and laughing til my head exploded, I became not only more
knowledgable but much better equipped. In other words, I sold a couple of
vital organs and am now the proud owner of a Provari Mini(The Holy Grail)
with a Kanger Protank. To say I’ve landed is an understatement . Yes, I
admit to a few tears of joy. And a lot of staring at it without wanting to
touch it in case it vanished into thin air. I dont think I’m alone here. I
think they just have that other wordly effect on people. However,I just
want to say… Thanks Phil, without you, I’d be tearing my hair out with
frustration and wasting a third of my life trawling the Internet going
quietly,yet steadily,insane.
Fiona

Hi Phil,
A note of appreciation for your superb video reviews which I happily stumbled across
by accident and immediately file in my “subscribed” folder on YouTube.
I have now been off analogues now for over three months.
I am in the UK in case I refer to any products you don’t see in the US!
I am now 45 and have been smoking since the age of 18. My wife was also a smoker but
she gave up in our second year of marriage – some 19 years ago.
We both had the hypnotherapy sessions but I secretly went back to it after a week or
so of horrendous cold turkey. So for the past 19 years I’ve been smoking in secret –
and you have no idea how hard that can be! First there is the terrific expense of
the habit these days and hiding the cost of cigarettes in my car fuel bill was
becoming awkward, so three years ago I switched to rolling my own. Even that was
becoming ridiculously expensive but I was managing.
OK, I say I was a secret smoker, but you cannot really not notice the smell
emanating from someone who has just put a cigarette out. In truth, she knew I
smoked. I knew she knew. But neither of us spoke of it and she certainly didn’t
realize I was on a pack a day.
Aside from frequent trips down the garden, holidays were a nuisance when we spent
most of our time together. When do you smoke?
I would find excuses to pop outside or take walks on my own in the evenings and
“stock up” on nicotine for the lean times ahead. Then there’s buying supplies and
hiding them somewhere – you can’t put a pack of 200 in your suitcase when she does
the packing!
Anyway, over the years I have tried to give up on many occasions.
I’ve tried the gum, inhalers and the patches, but always found myself smoking as well.
A comedian once said that “the best way to give up smoking is to use two patches.
You put one over each eye and you can’t find your fags!”
My problem was that despite knowing the risks, I enjoyed smoking.
So three months ago my wife went to the doctor with shortness of breath and was
diagnosed with COPD – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – probably brought on by
smoking for many years (she is 10 years older than me so had been doing it for a
while).
That was the clincher I think and the weekend after I spotted ecigs in the petrol
station at Tesco.
I bought a pack – the starter set with the battery, USB charger and three cartridges.
Expecting the worst, I also bought 20 Dunhill to keep me going!
The brand was 10motives (www.10motives.com).
I was incredibly impressed – there was the nicotine, vapour and throat hit, just
like the real thing!
So next time I bought a refill pack and no cigarettes.
Very quickly it became apparent that while this was a great way to give up smoking,
it was still somewhat expensive, so I hit the internet looking for inspiration.
Actually I was looking for a cheaper supplier of the 10motives, but I stumbled
across one of your videos in the process.
This opened up a whole world of possibilities and I realized that there was a group
of people who enjoyed vaping, not as a quit smoking thing, but as a hobby in itself.
This gave it credibility and immediately I decided that I did not want an analogue
lookalike and to be grouped with that sad crowd of people who are desperately
fighting their cigarette addiction. Vaping is something I could enjoy as an activity
in itself, so I needed some gear!
As luck would have it, a small supplier had just opened up nearby so I went in and
said “tell me about vaping and sell me some kit!”
They sold their own branded CE5 vaping kit for ??19.99 with 3ml of free juice.
Peering at the counter display and chatting to the guy though, we ended up putting
together a kit of upgraded eGo battery topped with a ViviNova.
Fearful of falling into the vaping AND smoking trap, I opted for 10ml of the 24mg
juice from Ritchy in original tobacco and a trial 3ml of the Ritchy Espresso.
And I’ve been happily vaping ever since (helped by your video on rebuilding the
faithful ViviNova).
I found enough rolling tobacco in my car armrest a couple of weeks back so rolled it
into a cigarette – and I didn’t like it! RESULT!
I’ve now been studying your videos for battery mods.
The choice is bewildering, but thanks to you (and availability or lack of, in the
UK) I am narrowing down the list.
Replaceable parts is what is required – I cannot be doing with replacing the whole
eGo thing.
I cannot get an AnyVape CVI over here so I watched your lengthy videos on the eVic
with the firmware updates that look remarkably like they have also watched your
videos!
The decision has yet to be made.
So many thanks for your inspiration.

Best regards,
Martin