Category: Success Stories

Hi Phil

I started at the age of 14 to smoke, to look cool like many other young people, what
a serious mistake I made. For twenty-five years I smoked like a real cigarette
filter and to save money I also used cigarettes without filter. In May 2014 I
discovered the electronic cigarette for the first time thanks to a member of my
family. At first I was skeptical about the chances of successfully quitting smoking
with this type of product. I had already tried any kind of product such as chewing
gum, nicotine patches, an inhaler and many other drugs that did not produce any good
results. I have been living in hell for many years with excessive sweats, heartache,
dizziness, loss of appetite and sleep. My food always tasted the same thing, paper
mache with a chemical aftertaste.

I used the electronic cigarette for the first time at the beginning of May 2014 with
a small variable voltage ego battery and a tiny 2ml tank and an 18mg e-liquid with
classic vanilla. After only a few days, I felt a big difference in my cigarette
consumption which had decreased considerably. On May 23, 2014, I officially stopped
smoking cigarettes to only use the electronic cigarette. For five years now I am an
electronic cigarette user who owns five electronic mod and several tanks with more
than fifty different aroma. Today, I can rebuild with my favorite tanks and lately I
started with a temperature control mod for a few weeks. It’s really amazing what you
can do with the electronic cigarette from a simple beginner product to an expert
user product.

In closing, I would like to thank Phil and Dimitri for their excellent review of
over a hundred products and their smoker show that I listen to all the time. Their
smoker show gave me a lot of information on how to use the electronic cigarette and
also buy the right product for me.
These are my success stories.

Hi just wanted to say as a dual user still sadly..but you 17th smokers show rocked for me . Mainly because of the little tips and stories of how to quit. Air control. What temp to run..and so much more..you rock..and I will probably watch that show a few times!! Thanks again. Saving up to get a kroma kit..have a great day

Phil, I have been a fan of you and Demi since the beginning of the year. I
religiously watch the smokers show and most of your reviews. I recently saw your
“most amazing trick” video and wanted to send you an email…..but as with all of
us, life gets in the way. So today I re-watched it and could not let this
opportunity pass again. Both times I have watched it, I have actually started
crying. Why? Because your message is THE MOST ON POINT message on the net.

I have been a hardcore smoker for 37 years. I’m now 52. I smoked the Canadian
equivalent of Marlboro Red’s – about 1 pack per day for this entire time.

I have now been smoke free for almost 4 months. Prior to vaping, the longest I have
ever been able to quit (using any/every method -patch, gum, mist, zyban etc) was 3
days. Vaping actually made it almost like cheating…..it was easy ! Believe me
when I say I am the poster child for a vaping advocacy success story.

You have TRULY been an inspiration to me personally (and yes, I love your Bro Demi
too 🙂 .

Just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your candid
professionalism, light humor, sensitivity and foresight. You have a fan for life.
When you and demi die, know that you absolutely helped save my life (or at least
extended it dramatically). Btw, indirectly, my wife is now also a vapor…..so that
makes two lives saved !

As your video ends…..”never loose focus” and keep helping others like myself.

Paul (thevapecrusader)

Mr Busardo i want to thank you ….1st of all your video reviews are
great..second the zenith tank you designed with Innokin is fantastic 2nd to none in
my opinion and been a smoker for 25 years quit by vaping 4 years ago and started
smoking again due to lack luster products until i ordered your tank and haven’t
looked back,it teams up nice with the mpv4…i will be ordering your Ares i believe
rda……thank you so much…you are a fantastic human being….just wanted to let
you know

Hi Phil. just thought I will drop a quick message to say big thank you for your u tube reviews videos. I’m a proud mum of two little girls who struggled giving up cigarettes for years and at last I think I cracked it with e cigarettes. trying to find suitable smoking kit is another matter altogether with the mountains of best kits out there but your videos help me to make informed decisions on where to look as I’m still green in this area. hoping to purchase kroma kit with zenith tank in January. keep up the good work.

Hi Phil,

I was looking at your success story page and saw my email to you in June of 2013 and
realized 5 years have passed. On my 5 year vapeversary I wanted to check in with you
and say thank you again because without you I would still be smoking. When I started
to look into vaping all those years ago, endless web searches left me more confused,
until a link to one of your videos came up. I was hooked by your level of detail,
insights and humor. From there I found your site which guided me to buy my first
ecig and juice. I continued to enjoy your videos and content as I advanced to better
gear. Bottom line is without you I would still be smoking a pack and a half a day of
Parliments. What you do, the body of work you created saves lives and it is
something you should never forget. How many people have you helped kick the habit?
How many people can say the saved even one life and yet you have impacted
thousands.

I was so motivated by what I learned from you I started my own review channel called
VarosVapor and joined the guys from Inside Vaping for a while, making some great
friends in the community and joining the fight for advocacy. Anyone I may have
helped is because of me being inspired by you. That’s all done now, haven’t made a
review in years and I am just an ex-smoker who vapes, has not had bronchitis in 5
years and feels great, never wanting to touch another cigarette.

Thank you Phil, from me and my family who may have me around a little longer, thank
you for your hard work and dedication.

God bless,

Jerry

Hello Phil. I just wanted to send a quick email to let you know how much I
love and appreciate your videos and what you do for the vaping community. It is so
cool to be able to see into some of these factories and how devices are
manufactured. It seems like most all of the people involved with vaping are really
cool fun guys and I think it is awesome. I watch your youtube videos along with
Daniel and a couple of others. I am banned from youtube from about 10 years ago for
posting copyrighted videos (like no one does that right) so I can’t subscribe to
your channel but I am watching. Keep up the good work and thanks again for the
awesome content.

Hi Phil – I know you have all sorts of fans out here, myself
being one of them. My finding you several years ago by following links
on e-cigarette-forum.com helped both my husband and myself work toward
stopping smoking and switch to vaping. In fact, it was the first time
ever after patches, gum, pills, etc that my husband really wanted to stop
smoking and didn’t feel an urge to smoke in 40 years. So thank you for
that.

You KNOW what I have to say… first, it’s been my pleasure, second CONGRATS ON QUITTING, and third…

Don’t have nor do I want fans. Would much rather you call yourself “friend”!!

Phil,

I smoked a pack a day for almost 30 years. I smoked my last cigarette on 1/11/16. Your videos have been instrumental in helping me on my vaping journey. Thank you!

I was dual using for about 3 months while I was trying to figure out how to get a satisfying vape. The thing that got me there was an RTA and your build videos.

Thank you,

Mike

Howdy Phil. Chuck here from the Great White North (in a bit of a heat wave
now though). I was a pack a day plus smoker for 40 years. Kept saying I was going to
quit but it just wasn’t in me. I bought a Nautilus Mini with iStick 40W unit in ’16
to finally try quitting. It was frustrating because I did not really get the
guidance I needed. Started with a poor choice of juice. I sat in the shop tasting
juice after juice and had no clue what I was doing. After choking and coughing up a
lung after work one day because I did not know that the coil’s got really saturated
when they sat, I put it away. Fast forward to this year and finding some proper
guidance, I finally had my last smoke on March 15. I went with a Nautilus X tank
first. Then I found a million (seems like anyways) reviews on equipment and juices
on line. Now I’m always checking out videos (mostly yours and a few other people I
can stand to watch for more than 5 minutes). I have a couple Cleitos and Crown III
tanks now. I was using iPower 80W unit but finally bought my Drag last week. What a
difference. I installed the RTA in one of the Cleito’s and succeeded to finally wick
the thing properly on my third try. I still prefer the Crown III for now. Debating
if I want to buy a full RDA.

The reason I’m writing this is to thank you for all the info you have been providing
the vaping community as well as all the fighting and educating you are doing to keep
vaping alive.