Hi everyone at the V4L forum,
My name is Kevin and I used to smoke 2-3 packs a day. I started vaping one year and seven months ago. The reason I quit smoking was because I was about 21 or 22 years old, and I had a collapsed lung, and I went to the hospital for chest pain's and they said it was due to being tall and skinny. As I was in the hospital, I could only use dip/snus so that is what I used. When I was in the hospital, I was doing fine for nicotine.
The real world though, was a totally different thing. I saw people lighting up, exhaling smoke and I wanted one really bad. So what I did was I googled electronic cigarette's and I came across the ECF. I looked on the ECF and went into the chat room. When people were saying the KR808's are the easiest way to go, I decided to try to look for what a lot of people called a "Vapor King".
When I googled the Vapor King, it brought me to a site that had the Kr808's, and I decided to order the starter kit. As I did more research, I found out who I ordered from was a phony, and I sent the shipment back, but to no avail did I get my money back. I then found Vapor 4 Life and I rarely ventured away from them.
Once I found Vapor 4 Life, and placed an order, the first order was totally messed up, they sent regular Kamel at 0mg. I placed an order for 2 Kamel Menthol's 24mg. I am not sure if you guy's remember Val, but she helped me so much by sending me out the right order, which was still messed up. I did not want to call Vapor 4 Life again and annoy them, so I just let it go. It was off by a pack of carto's.
When I got my order fixed, I started to make a user name for here, and ask what people liked for a menthol, and to avail, everyone LOVED Smilin Menthol. So I placed an order for the prefilled cart's and I tried those. I also wanted a tobacco flavor and I had cuban cigar, which was not to bad.
As time went on, there were a few slight error's with the order's, but at this point I knew they would fix it for me. Plus we are all human, can't we all make mistake's? I did not hold it against them, did not flame the forums with slander, just wrote Val and she fixed it.
I learned from BornAgainstVape about filling carto's and how much cheaper it would be to do that, so he taught me along with Sawlight how to fill, and about 3 weeks into vaping, I was a juice junkie. Once the WOWboy came out, I was all over that like white on rice
.
Now I had two every day all day vapes and I was quite satisfied and I did not dare venture to other flavor's, or sites for that matter, due to me getting burnt by the first place. Once I got some extra cash, I started to venture to other flavor's but came back to the same ones, Smilin and WOWboy.
As time went on, the forums were starting to fill with people being lazy and complaining on them, saying how Vapor 4 Life did this and that. Steve, Mark, Wade, Val, and Born all posted, told everyone the same thing... Send Vapor 4 Life an email and explain what is wrong. Once that started, I had to take a break from Vapor 4 Life's forums because the common sense of a lot of people had escaped them, and I have a short temper for that.
I came back and found everything back to the way it was, all joking, having fun so I started to come back, doing reviews again, getting the old camera back up and running, and really having a blast. As I started to gain more knowledge in vaping, I started helping the newbies out, giving them tips.
Then SnowDragon and Morandir came along, and can I say holy crap do I look like a newbie compared to them? I mean, if it was not for either of them, there would be a lot more question's being asked around here then ever before. Congratulation's guys you are a HUGE piece of this forum!
I can say that for me personally, it is not the fact of the hand to mouth motion that keeps me vaping, but the fact of having the vapor in front of my face. If it was not for Vapor 4 Life, I think I would still be using regular cigarette's even after my doctor said no.
To conclude this little blog, I would like to give a big thanks to Vapor 4 Life, Sawlight, Val, Jeffree, BornAgainstVape, Darr. Kimmy and Keyzy. Without you guy's I would have been lost and most of all to Morandir and SnowDragon for taking their time out of their busy lives to do the tests they have done. A HUGE thanks to Steve and Mark for literally saving either my life, or my lung by starting this company.
P.S: I want to thank all of you for reading this, and I hope this encourages you to write your journey, history, or story of vaping as well, to show the new guy's how vaping can lead to quitting or totally stopping smoking.
My name is Kevin and I used to smoke 2-3 packs a day. I started vaping one year and seven months ago. The reason I quit smoking was because I was about 21 or 22 years old, and I had a collapsed lung, and I went to the hospital for chest pain's and they said it was due to being tall and skinny. As I was in the hospital, I could only use dip/snus so that is what I used. When I was in the hospital, I was doing fine for nicotine.
The real world though, was a totally different thing. I saw people lighting up, exhaling smoke and I wanted one really bad. So what I did was I googled electronic cigarette's and I came across the ECF. I looked on the ECF and went into the chat room. When people were saying the KR808's are the easiest way to go, I decided to try to look for what a lot of people called a "Vapor King".
When I googled the Vapor King, it brought me to a site that had the Kr808's, and I decided to order the starter kit. As I did more research, I found out who I ordered from was a phony, and I sent the shipment back, but to no avail did I get my money back. I then found Vapor 4 Life and I rarely ventured away from them.
Once I found Vapor 4 Life, and placed an order, the first order was totally messed up, they sent regular Kamel at 0mg. I placed an order for 2 Kamel Menthol's 24mg. I am not sure if you guy's remember Val, but she helped me so much by sending me out the right order, which was still messed up. I did not want to call Vapor 4 Life again and annoy them, so I just let it go. It was off by a pack of carto's.
When I got my order fixed, I started to make a user name for here, and ask what people liked for a menthol, and to avail, everyone LOVED Smilin Menthol. So I placed an order for the prefilled cart's and I tried those. I also wanted a tobacco flavor and I had cuban cigar, which was not to bad.
As time went on, there were a few slight error's with the order's, but at this point I knew they would fix it for me. Plus we are all human, can't we all make mistake's? I did not hold it against them, did not flame the forums with slander, just wrote Val and she fixed it.
I learned from BornAgainstVape about filling carto's and how much cheaper it would be to do that, so he taught me along with Sawlight how to fill, and about 3 weeks into vaping, I was a juice junkie. Once the WOWboy came out, I was all over that like white on rice
.Now I had two every day all day vapes and I was quite satisfied and I did not dare venture to other flavor's, or sites for that matter, due to me getting burnt by the first place. Once I got some extra cash, I started to venture to other flavor's but came back to the same ones, Smilin and WOWboy.
As time went on, the forums were starting to fill with people being lazy and complaining on them, saying how Vapor 4 Life did this and that. Steve, Mark, Wade, Val, and Born all posted, told everyone the same thing... Send Vapor 4 Life an email and explain what is wrong. Once that started, I had to take a break from Vapor 4 Life's forums because the common sense of a lot of people had escaped them, and I have a short temper for that.
I came back and found everything back to the way it was, all joking, having fun so I started to come back, doing reviews again, getting the old camera back up and running, and really having a blast. As I started to gain more knowledge in vaping, I started helping the newbies out, giving them tips.
Then SnowDragon and Morandir came along, and can I say holy crap do I look like a newbie compared to them? I mean, if it was not for either of them, there would be a lot more question's being asked around here then ever before. Congratulation's guys you are a HUGE piece of this forum!
I can say that for me personally, it is not the fact of the hand to mouth motion that keeps me vaping, but the fact of having the vapor in front of my face. If it was not for Vapor 4 Life, I think I would still be using regular cigarette's even after my doctor said no.
To conclude this little blog, I would like to give a big thanks to Vapor 4 Life, Sawlight, Val, Jeffree, BornAgainstVape, Darr. Kimmy and Keyzy. Without you guy's I would have been lost and most of all to Morandir and SnowDragon for taking their time out of their busy lives to do the tests they have done. A HUGE thanks to Steve and Mark for literally saving either my life, or my lung by starting this company.
P.S: I want to thank all of you for reading this, and I hope this encourages you to write your journey, history, or story of vaping as well, to show the new guy's how vaping can lead to quitting or totally stopping smoking.
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