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Planet of the Vapes forum members share their success stories of how vaping helped them to quit smoking tobacco – 7/10
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by Dave Cross
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Kamido quit smoking in June 2016 thanks to vaping: “I smoked from the age of 16, first started on tailor-mades then rolling tobacco. Because of my job I could smoke all day, and was smoking nearly fifty grams of drum a day.”
“As I got older it was clear my health was starting to suffer - always had a cough and was using an asthma pump all the time, pushing a lawnmower at work left me out of breath.”
“My better half gave up smoking three months before me with the help of vaping.” Kamido tried her kit on the Sunday and had bought an identical one before she woke on the Monday. “I’ve not smoked a cigarette since that day and I have not had to use the asthma pump.”
Forum member nialb had “multiple attempts at quitting smoking”. Patches, spraymists and Champix failed to obtain lasting results, but that changed when he tried vaping.
“I quit in August 2015 as soon as I picked up my first vape. I started on a standard pen with some 16mg watermelon liquid and as soon as I took my first drags I didn't even think about wanting a cigarette. My first set-up cost me 25 quid and was the best money I could have spent.”
“I can now run around without getting completely out of breath, and I don't stink of fags (I realised that my old boss absolutely honked of fags after I’d given up). Also, when I do need to go out for a toot, I don't have to stand out there until I've finished my cig. I can toot a few times and then head back into the office. Happy days all round,” Nial adds.
“I joined POTV in around October 2015 and it has been a constant source of help, support, and general banter. I pop in pretty much on a daily basis, although the birth of my new child at the beginning of the year, and the start of a new job recently has meant that I'm not as active as I once was, but I know it's a place that you can jump back in as and when, and it's like you've never been away.”
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Resources:
- POTV forum: planetofthevapes.co.uk/forum
- National No-Smoking Day - https://www.todayistheday.co.uk
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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