Vaping Has Changed My Life

I would like to briefly share my story with you and my concern with the recently released FDA Deeming Regulations pertaining to ‘Vaping’ products (a/k/a electronic cigarettes). I smoked tobacco cigarettes for 36 years (started in the Air Force). While advised to quit by my doctor, I was unsuccessful after multiple attempts. I tried all available products including gums, patches, inhalers, books, hypnosis, drugs and “cold turkey”. Unfortunately none of these methods worked for me. I did succeed in quitting on August 28th, 2013 after purchasing a higher quality vaping device and some non-tobacco flavored e-liquids. I was able to quit tobacco cigarettes in about 4 weeks. I am now almost 8 months tobacco free with no desire to be anywhere near tobacco and cigarettes. I never really thought that this would happen but am so happy that it did. I started a YouTube channel to help others looking to get off of tobacco cigarettes and to date have helped several dozen people (directly or indirectly) to achieve the same success and quit smoking. I am very proud of that. Their success is my success. While I support regulation and standards for the e-cigarette industry, and certainly endorse age restrictions, I am concerned that the products that are most efficient to help people like me quit smoking may be placed in jeopardy. The higher end devices are more effective than the “cig-a-likes” (those that resemble an actual cigarette). I wanted to share my story with you as a person who was never going to give up tobacco cigarettes but who actually succeeded in making the switch to a reduced harm alternative. I thank you for your time and attention. David Fluker Gilroy, CA