Category: Success Stories

Hi Phil!,
I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoy your videos. It is one
thing to post a unbiased review but its another to hold up your review
with some extremely clear and easy to follow material within the review.
Sometimes the details do matter to the viewer (and sometimes not
everyone wants to know if it just sucks or not lol), especially if they
are going to shell 100s of dollars out on a device. So with that said,
keep rockin out the great info! Im a subscriber and will be for a long
time. I have been smoke free for about 7 weeks now and vapin’ strong 🙂
Its people like you who give curious people like me the right info so
they don’t miss out on the amazing possibilities they have as apposed to
smoking analogs. Yuck…

Dan

Hello P. Busardo

my name is igor and Although I do not know if you have any time to respond to this email I really want to thank you.
I regularly watch your videos and I must tell you that you’re doing a great job and I really appreciate the effort. I’m sure you understand how popular you are but I must tell you that you have a lot of fans here in Israel following you all the time and we learn a lot from you
Unfortunately, the government here in Israel prohibits the import of e liquids and gives incorrect information to citizens about electronic cigarette in the media and so on.
Despite all this I really hope that one day all this will work out and we can vape without fear.
Although awareness here rising slightly it really does not compare to the U.S. or Europe, so we have to deal with products with less quality and a small variety.
Anyway I just wanted to tell you I really enjoy watching your videos and update you that you have fans in Israel as well. Likewise I hope you will visit the Holy Land and we will be more than happy to meet you.
im sorry for my poor english but anyway i wish you the best and Hope we can stay in touch.

Once again on behalf of all israeli vapers Thank you very much!

Keep on Vaping.
igor.

Hi Mr. P.,

Just wanted to let you know you are a hellova classy rock star. Your maturity and
focus that you present and ability keep on topic, and away from politics in video
eye, is simply astounding. The way you present yourself is very respectful. At
times I am amused with seeing the younger folk get bent out of shape simply because
they know you are doing things right and the folks that matter in Vape world go to
you first.

I got another carto tank (You know… I consider it to be my last “carto tank”)
which is beautiful on a Provari (Pro-V Cartomator SS – didn’t check to see if you
ever did a review on it). It’s so slick looking I burnt another dry carto while
looking at it.

I tossed the “Nivi Nova” in the trash because I was faked out and simply put… it
was fake crap with problems. Glad to see the photo on the web site I picked it up
wat was revised to remove the Vivi Nova logo and shipping insurance is now available
for purchase. None the less, I still found the entire situation sad for the vape
community and a great way to turn off new vapers who are learning. A person should
not be learning about fake gear – but, should be learning about what tricks a
persons trigger enough to stay away from analogs.

Dang it I am rambling off topic – sorry for that… I am actually sending you a
message to say congrats to you and for helping your wife switch. It’s not an easy
task. Though, I still think my photo of Monkey with cats and Phil with dolphin and
scuba cat should have won.

One last word. Stop chewing your finger nails. Those close ups – I think, dang
where are his finger nails? LOLOLOL.

Take care man! I really appreciate your efforts. Go Packers.

Mike
X-analog one month – I blame PBusardo for that.

Hey Phil,
Just wanted to say thanks for all the good info. I am an active duty member in
the USAF stationed in Guam currently. I first tried e-cigs back in 2010, got my
first kit from smoking everywhere from a mall kiosk. I gave them a try for about
a month but wasn’t impressed with the product and went back to cigs. Well I
decided to try again a few months ago in July, and am impressed with how far
things have come. I am currently using a clearomizer and a standard battery. But
I hope to move to a vivi nova 2.5 and a provari very soon, I have to wait on cash
to come available. Lord knows military men and women don’t do it for the money.
Well sorry I rambled just wanted to say thanks for the good info and for what you
have done for vapors.
Thanks,
TSgt Victor

Thank you Victor and allow me to thank you for your service. -PBusardo

Ciao Busardo il mio amico Italiano. If you don’t speak a little Italian it
says “hello my Italian friend.” I am guessing with that last name you would be
Italian. So, how was your concert even though they let you walk in so easy with your
bomb oops I meant PV. LOL!
I just wanted to say I appreciate your hard work you put into your website/ youtube
channel. Your getting started, juice suggestions, hardware suggestions those sections really
help people with different good options.

I am not here to hit you up with a million question but to give you a big, big thank
you for all your help and advice and tell you how much your videos and advice and
website helps.

I do understand how life can get busy with peoples numerous responsibilities and how
hard it must be for you to handle work, your family, trying to keep the wifey off
cigs and still handle reviews, giveaways, updating websites, answering different
messages from different social media sites. Not to mention staying up on whats going
on in the vaping world.
I know that was a mouthful ( that is what she said) LOL!
I really don’t know how you do it. I am an Italian guy that has two small children (
1 &3 ) a wife and a full-time College student and I struggle just to keep up with
you guys videos. So, I am amazed on how the heck you hold it down. But, I appreciate
it.

I am not saying this to be a kiss a**. But, I don’t want to see a good review at
your level to go or just get tired of doing this or just feel things are done in
vain.

I don’t know if you get enough praises for what you do. I mean you may not even care
if you do get them but I think it’s important for people to know when the make a
difference.

Mr. Busardo you make a lot of difference in what you do. Keep up the great work you do.
P.S. If my note was a video this would have been a PBusardo length video! Ha ha ha!

Sincerely,
Santini

I would just like to say that you are my favorite reviewer, and I really
appreciate all the things you do for the vaping community. I tend to have the same
taste in juice as you and that helps a lot when it comes to your juice reviews and
it helps to influence my decisions on buying products or not. Just figured I would
let you know how awesome you are, my dear sir. Have a nice day and happy vaping to
you.

Hi Phil,
Just to let you know that I look forward to seeing an update of your videos in my e
mail each day.

Had my last analog and first vape on 8 April ’09, and never looked back.

I believe in KISS and at my age (72) that is more necessity than choice.

I started with 808s and just recently switched to the Ego Twist! Was hesitant
because I do have so much 808 gear but I’d better go with the flow cause I certainly
don’t want to be caught having minimal choices in my vaping arsenal!

I’m almost embarrassed to say that I have shied away from DIY. My vaping friend
and I have talked about it extensively, and we’ve both tried it with no success.
However, the DIY bug has hit me once more, and I’ve read then read and read even
more on ECF and watched videos ad nauseam.
So, I’m about to enter the DIY realm and experiment with some basic mixing. The
calculators online should direct me well….however they don’t tell me how to mix
with nic that has no PG or VG base……

Anyway, I digress and do apologize.

I’m typing this with the intent of letting you know that you are helping more folks
than you know….. the new vapers as well as the veterans.

Be well and again thank you!

Grace

This is my vapeing time line as follows.

I’m 46 now and had smoked for 25 years until I was diagnosed with non hodjkins lymphoma in 2007 at the age of 41. I was stage three so the cancer team ran me through all the tests and started chemo within 3 weeks. I continued to smoke but felt I was trying to counter all the team was doing to save my life.

Well after 6 heavy chemo rounds I started on to 25 hits of radiation to my left neck, the original site, which was 8 cm. After all that I moved closer to the cancer center and low and behold, I walked into a tavern that sold 401 starter kits and me and my girlfriend each bought one for a total of $115.00.

I was able to cut my analog consumption in half in three weeks but she gave up. I cruised through the net and found ECF and Puresmokers Prodigy soon to be released. I got one but I don’t think many of us were ready to throw 5 Volts onto a 2.3 Ohm 510 atty. My capacitor cooked and I sent it back. I then found electronicstix and bought a 510 kit and it was great. My analog use was down to 5-10 a day. I bought 2 Janty Sticks and mostly enjoyed the 801 atomizers on my power supply at 4.5 Volts.

Any way, I got into buying mods bigtime, GGTS, GGTB, GG SLIM, Prodigy, the Don, and many others to help keep me off the weeds… One note, Out of all the VV devices I have used, and sold, I would recommend just using a 510 lr, (1.5) Ohm atomizer on a imr battery for great vapor. I felt I had to do too much math to figure out why my mod said I couldn’t do what I wanted. I don’t like that. Mechanical mods are my staple now, as a matter of fact, I just sold my Provari mini on ECF tonite.

Thought I give the v2 a shot but it bossed me around too much also. Seems that the Ohms creep down and you get a E1, E2 and thankfully I sold it before I threw it out of the window. I have been vapeing exclusively for 2 1/2 years now and help others to discover the tobacco harm reduction benefits of vapeing. Although my cancer has come back, I feel it could be worse if I didn’t turn to vapeing.

And Phil,… Oh Phil,… You do make me laugh with your light hearted jokes while you do reviews and they are so informative! I already know what works for me and am getting into REAtties more and more,I got an Ody for my pro mini… Anywhoo… Thank you PB for the great reviews and the fun manner in which you present them! And thanx for all the other pioneer e-cig reviewers like GrimmGreen, Igetcha69…hmm, whats the 69 for?, and Leaford, the cat with all the birds… where did he go??? So keep up the good work Phil and I always pass on to noobs your, and the others YouTube channels to help get them started feeling better! Love you all….

Rich lithiumdaze on ECF Vape On!!!

Phil, I just wanted to thank you.
I’m 26 years old, and have been smoking for roughly 12 or 13 years. I tried switching to an electronic cigarette back in december, when a brick and mortar store opened in my area. I bought a cheapy ego knockoff with horrible chinese e-liquid that they had in stock. It lasted about 3 days before I returned the device to the store and went back to analogs.

A friend of mine, who has been vaping for about a year and a half now, started linking me your videos trying to get me re-interested in vaping. Finally, I gave in and bought a VZ VV chrome tube (after watching several of your mod reviews, one being on the normal VZ VV) at the end of july, and some juice from bombay.

A month before I ordered the mod I began to work from home, and noticed I was smoking A LOT more than I ever had in the past. My one pack a day habit started peaking upwards to the 1.5 packs a day, and if I had given it any more time, it probably would of gone to two packs.

I’ve had one analog since my mod came in, and that was due to my order from bombay not shipping, and the juice from the other company not making it in time. However, once again, I turned to your videos for help with finding a new supplier while bombay gets their orders shipped out. I tried Rawrvapor, and have not regretted it.

You probably get this a lot, but you (a long with the friend that kept linking me your videos, and the guys at vapeteam) have played a large part in saving my life.

I’ve only made two, now three legitimate attempts at quitting analogs. The first being cold turkey (That only lasted for about 5 to 6 months), and the second mentioned above, but I feel at this point I will not be returning to analogs.

So thank you, Phil, and keep up the great work!

Dear Phil,

I was a smoker for over 45 years. Toward the end I was rolling my own. You may
remember in the first month Obama took office he sign a bill increasing taxes on
cigarette tobacco. I was paying $6 in taxes for a pound of RYO tobacco. In one day
the taxes went to over $28.00, just the taxes not including the price of the
tobacco.

That was it for me. About the same time I found e-cigs and started playing with
them, like they were a new toy. I played with them for about a month in the last
three days of that month I was surprised to find I had not rolled a cigarette. I
immediately rolled one, lite it, choked on it and put it out after two puffs. I
have been tobacco free since. Last June was my three anniversary.

It is thanks to the tax hike, videos like yours & others who are Green, ECF and
whoever that genius was that invented e-digs. So Thank You.

Making the jump from analogs to vaping is more like switching brands than quitting,
but I know my health and outlook on life has changed for the better. Much Better.,

Barry