{"id":5571,"date":"2014-01-08T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:40:17","slug":"from-derek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5571","title":{"rendered":"From Derek"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I want to throw a huge thank you your way.  I have been a smoker my entire adult<br \/>\nlife.  I have tried the gum, the patches and 2 medicines to no avail because<br \/>\nfrankly, I love the habit.  I love the physical act of smoking, but hate what it<br \/>\ndoes to my body.  I could hear myself wheezing when I laughed and especially when I<br \/>\nlaid down to sleep.  I have avoided returning to my career in law enforcement<br \/>\nbecause I couldn&#8217;t run around the block without having a massive coughing fit.<br \/>\nAbout 6 months ago, I tried the blu cigs, and saw potential in the idea, but<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t quite put down the analogs because I never knew if the batteries were going<br \/>\nto last and honestly, the flavor sucked.  I started researching a little further and<br \/>\nstumbled onto a few YouTube channels, including yours, that were REALLY helpful.  I<br \/>\nappreciated the fact that guys like you and grimmgreen and riptrippers so readily<br \/>\nrecognized each other and lead me to more places with great information.  So, I<br \/>\ngrabbed an e-go battery and a little top coil clearomizer and gave it a go.  Today,<br \/>\nI am smoke free for the first time since I was a teen.  No more wheezing,  I can run<br \/>\naround the block without collapsing, and I am getting ready to take another shot at<br \/>\ngetting back to a career that I loved.  And I get to keep the physical &#8220;habit&#8221; that<br \/>\nhas been the stumbling block in my past.  And for the record, down to 12mg of nic<br \/>\nfrom 18, and honestly looking at cutting to 8mg now that I have the kayfun (that bad<br \/>\nboy is frickin kickin!).<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for what you do.  I owe being smoke free to you. Thank you, thank you, a<br \/>\nthousand times, thank you!!!<\/p>\n<p>Gratefully,<\/p>\n<p>Derek<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to throw a huge thank you your way. I have been a smoker my entire adult life. I have tried the gum, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success_stories","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}