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32 years of smoking cigarettes (was up to a carton every 3 or 4  days) and I loved every smelly, chemically tasting puff.

In 2013, to support my wife who wanted to quit cigarettes, I decided to try “vaping”. A friend of ours who has been vaping for a couple of years bought us our first starter kit. (Thank You Gary !) The kit was nothing fancy, enough to get us started and try vaping.

That first day of vaping, I went down to 5 cigarettes !!! (about 50 less than the day before) and my wife down to 8 (she was not impressed lol considering I only tried vaping to support her)

Many of our customer at the store tell me that they quit cigarettes cold turkey the second they started vaping. FANTASTIC ! we so love to hear that ! I will admit it was a little tougher for me, the hardest to kick were that first morning cigarette, my morning coffee cigarette , after dinner cigarette , before bed cigarette. It took a few months but I finally kicked them too.

The most frustrating aspect of vaping for me was making sure I had enough fluid and to make sure my stick actually worked. I was doing fantastic until I ran out of fluid and couldn’t get any more of the fluid I liked. The store I visited were out of my flavour (and most other flavours) I wasen’t too picky, I just wanted some sort of tobacco flavour with lots of nicotine (24/30/36).

Long story short, I went to the trunk of my car and got out a pack of cigarettes (32 year habit, I wasn’t gonna give up on cigarettes that easy, I had a secret emergency stash)

I ordered some fluid online and after waiting for Canada Post to deliver and paying shipping and handling I was back to vaping.

Then the dreaded, burnt taste while vaping, my wick needed replacing (not that the store I went to had any in stock) so I bought a new tank instead and started over.

So frustrating, I liked vaping, I wanted to vape but needed a choice of fluid (lets face it, if you don’t enjoy your fluid or don’t have any, you may be tempted to give up on it) and needed to ensure I had somewhere to go to get a tank and keep it working. Waiting till next week for fluid to be in stock JUST WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

When you smoke almost 3 packs of cigarettes a day and go down to none, trust me, your friends notice ! (and want a stick and fluid)

So we opened our retail store and stocked it with over 100 different flavours and many choices of sticks and tanks to choose from to start you vaping and KEEP you vaping.

People keep telling me vaping is a hobby, for some of us its much more than that.

Please fell free to stop in and see me and share your experiences with giving up cigarettes, I look forward to hearing them.

BILLY

billysexpessvapes@yahoo.ca

Billy is a proud shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway

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