Category: Success Stories

hey phil just wanted to say i love your website. Iam a 36 year old male
who has been smoking analogs since i was 18. A few days ago i decided i had enough
and decided to quit tobacco. A friend told me about gotvapes.com i purchased a ego
twist with a vivi nova. After i had purchased it i was looking at there website
when i saw a review you did so i watched it i have been hooked ever since. For the
last 2 days(because my days off are mondays and tuesdays) i have been watching
reviews on your website non stop. I can proudly say that i havent had a anolog cig
in 2 days!!!! If your gonna be a bear be a grizzly right? Anyway i figure
immersing myself in this lifestyle would be the best way to learn, and occupie my
time which would keep me from smoking. So far so good . Seriously i am not blowing
smoke up your ass (haha) i really love your reviews because there so in depth and i
especially like the tech portion. I watched your review on juice from vapor society
and afterwards put in an order and used your name as the referral. Anyway keep it
up. I think you are doing a great thing.

Hi Phil,

This message was just to say “Thanks”!

I’m sure you’re a busy guy, and I don’t require any response from you. I just
thought you should know…

You’ve been a great help to me. I only started vaping a couple of weeks ago. My
first kit was (I believe) a cheap no-name knock-off of a 510 kit, and grossly
overpriced in my opinion. One of the batteries actually started dying a week into my
vaping adventure, and I was dismayed by the burnt mineral flavour I was getting no
matter what juice I vaped.

ANYWAY, I found one of your videos which led to watching HOURS more of your stuff to
try and see if there was something more to this vaping thing that my kit wasn’t
giving me.

Thanks to your informative, honest approach to disseminating the volume of
information involved in this activity, I believe I’m hooked for life.

I’ve since purchased an eGo-C kit (a much better place for a beginner to start, I
think), a couple of eGo-C Twist batteries, some SmokTech Mega Dual Coil Cartomizers,
and a TON of juice. All told, including that first crappy kit, I’m now into this to
the tune of about $515 before shipping.

I already have “Wish Lists” started at the websites of multiple Canadian vendors
with hundreds of dollars worth more of things I expect I’ll buy in the months to
come. The decisions I’ve made in regards to future purchases are in no small part
due to what you’ve shared through your videos.

Whether or not you always realize it, I want you to know – I believe that what you
do is very important. Giving of your time, experience, knowledge and expertise
provides a tangible and valuable service to people who might otherwise continue
smoking blissfully, without ever knowing about and fully appreciating this useful
alternative.

Though we’ve never met, and might never meet, I’ve come to have a genuine affection
for you because of what you do. I don’t think it’s overstating to say that you may
well be saving lives.

I hope that when you start to feel like you may be wasting your time, perhaps this
message might help motivate you to realize just how important you are to people out
there in YouTube land. You’re certainly very important to me.

With sincerest gratitude,

Duane

Thanks for the add Phil!

Long time viewer, glad you guys are ok over there! The info you have given me on my journey to stay off the smokes is priceless, wish you all the best! Hope to see you at vape bash in the coming months! Without the support of this community I’d be still smoking! 23 years of it! 2 years smoke free! Thanks again and be well!

Troy

Phil;
Had to drop you a line and Thank You for your insights and demonstrations. A friend
of my daughter turned me on to your site, and in large part you’re responsible for
my wife and I quitting our pack a day cig habit cold turkey for a week now.
We had tried BluCigs a couple of years ago, and just weren’t satisfied. Liked the
idea, but the application just didn’t hit the VTF scale high enough. We are serious
about giving up the analogs, tho, so we went right to the ProVari with the Vivi Nova
2.5 tanks…
The skies opened up, angels came down and Halelujah! I’d much rather vape than
smoke now!!
Keep up the good work, you are providing an invaluable service that is changing and
saving people’s lives.
Happy Vapor Trails to You!

Burt and Rene’

HELLO!

First off, love the site, and love the yourtube videos. They have been a huge help
for me and now a friend of mine….more friends to come.

I’m not really new to ecigs, at least the cigarette shaped ones, like BluCig. They
were all good at first but the longevity of both battery and cartos turned me off.
THEN recently at a local smoke shop “Smokers Palace” … I think, they had a kit of
a PV. So I briefed over it and figured what the heck, its time to stop smoking
again, and picked it up. It was a kit by Tsunami, came in a box with the usual
batteries, charging things, and the cartridge things. On the battery was printed
Tsunami 1000x tank. I believe the kit is really new, because I can’t find anything
on the web about them. Only stuff on there disposable ecigs. You ever hear or see
them?

I was really pleased with the amount of vapor and how long the battery lasted the
first day compared to the crappy ecigs I used before. So I searched the web and
found alllllll kinnnnnds of info on PV stuff, especially from yourself. So what I
came up with is I think the battery on my Tsunami device is of ego form and the
cart/tank on it looks alot like the Vision V1. Really weird that I could not find
this kit on the internet anywhere, yet resembles a couple products already out
there.

I also took some advice and ordered some juice from Johnson Creek. WOW, wow wow I
couldn’t believe it, big difference from the smoke juice I also picked up at the
store. I think I just found my fix from smokes and a new hobby. Then I checked out
some videos by yourself, noticed you did some reviews from KalamazooVaporShop and
figured since I live in Michigan, I’ll order up me some stuff, ego twist, boges n
other cartos, smokTech tanks n some juices. Can’t wait for the order to arrive!

After watching your videos and browsing your site for info n help, I figured I
really needed to share my story with you, since you been such a huge help, and didnt
even know it. KEEP UP THE KILLER WORK!!!

Pbusardo, I felt like i had to write ya and say thank you!

I was a half pack a day smoker and i grew sick of it i got into vaping in late
july, bought a kgo kit from a joint at a mall( come to find i paid to much duh).
It got my a 650mah batt and an atomizer. I had alot of questions that the guy
that sold it to me didnt know the answers to. I found your site a few days later
and soon had all of my questions answered by your videos and knowedge base
section. I upgraded though a couple of your trusted vendors. long story short i
think its great to find this much information about vaping in one non bias place.
So thank you for what ya do man keep the info and reviews coming!

-Matt

Hello Phil
I just wanted to drop you a quick email to say hello and thank you
My name is Stuart from Scotland in
the UK and have been watching your videos and looking at your web site and
would like you to know that I find the information you present as 2nd to
none and it has helped me a great deal as I was failing in my efforts to
fully kick the tobacco habit that I had been addicted to for over 25 years
and after losing my father to cancer this year i was
getting a wee bit down as I have tried for the last year to find a system
to stop me falling back to the bad old ways (which was happening to me far
to often) then I watched your video review on the ProVari and just went
for it and it was for me a “game changer” it’s a great device and
Iam loving it.
I have been two weeks without a real cig and feeling a lot better and
happier and wanted to thank you for a great review and I should not have
watched the review on the Z-Atty Pro as I want one lol .
Now I just have to convert the wife to the vaping way (wish me luck!!!) I
may have to enlist my daughters help (this may involve money lol).
Thanks again Phil keep the good work up
Stuart

Hey Busardo,

I really want to impress upon you what a service you provide to the vaping
community with your reviews. I seriously appreciate your review of the Z-atty Pro.
I started watching it and knew about 10 minutes into it that I wanted to watch and
share it with my girlfriend so that if the time came to get one, she would know as
much as I did to help in the decision making. I already have two tanks, a Smoktech
and a Big Daddy so something would have to happen to one of those first. I am a
Made In U.S.A. freak so that is a major plus. I watched the “How To” guide on
Provape.com and it looked like the fiddle factor was a little much. Your review
changed that and took the anxiety out of that aspect. The deal breaker is the leak
factor. That’s exactly why I don’t take my tanks away from home. It looks and
sounds like the Z-Atty Pro is a even bigger risk. More of a risk than I’m even
willing to take at home. I don’t want to have to be that careful…

I really don’t know what I would do without your reviews. Probably fuck up even
more than I do now.

We really enjoyed the review about yourself in the “About Me” section. I am 45
years old and my girlfriend is 51. Looking at you and knowing you are 42 makes us
feel a whole lot better about our age.

Seriously though, knowing more about you adds flavor to your videos.

Keep up the good work,

Guster

Hi Phil

I just wanted to take a bit of time to thank you, for doing what you do!
You and your reviews are one of the big reasons i got interested in the
big vaping world.
The way you do your review’s are brilliant, and have taught me alot. I’ve
got me a Provari and a vivi nova, and today i have been a nonsmoker for
2160hours. For the first time in over 17years, i’ve not been smoking for
3months. Now im trying to get my wife, sister and mom to jump on the vape
vagon aswell.

Thank you so much, for taking your time, to do what you do, the way you do
it.
All the best to you and your family
P.S Sorry for my bad english hehe
Stefan

Hey Phil,

My name is Jim, I’m 33 and I’m from Buffalo, NY as you may have recognized from my
email address. I am a successful convert to ecigs since the day I received my
Provari on June 2nd. I went straight for a top of the line device after much
research and couldn’t be happier with my decision. So happy I went out and got the
Mini as well which is my favorite. I wanted to say in a formal email that your
reviews are awesome and ultra helpful and you are a major credit to the vaping
community. There’s a ton of info out there and it can be very confusing if your
just getting into this and need help. You make them very fun and I love how you
really try to tear things apart and get an in depth look at a piece of hardware.
Your juice reviews are excellent as well, and I have used a few of your juice
reviews to make a few purchases of my own with good success.

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Thanks for your time Phil and keep up the great work. I don’t know how much praise
you get regarding your reviews but one more can’t hurt 🙂
Your doing a tremendous job and I’m in your debt. I look forward to your response
and even if I don’t get one I wanted to say THANKS!

Cheers,
Jim