Well my story about the e-cigs is that after 45 years of smoking has ended a year ago, even after watching my dad die from smoking and me sitting in the waiting room to see if he was going to make it i was smoking a cigarette and talking to his dr. and the dr. even said it was bad and sad that i was still doing the one thing that is killing him. This was back when you could still smoke in the hospital, well that was maybe 30 years ago i had no intention of stopping the cigarettes at that time nor did i ever think in the future, until last year i was having a surgery on a knee replacement and the wound wasn’t healing so i went through many treatments to help it heal de-breeding which is digging meat out of the wound etc, and my dr. said that my smoking is making it near impossible for the wound to heal so on my own i decided to listen to a friend that had tried the e-cig so i bought a disposable e-cig to see if i thought it could help in anyway, well i saw a potential and then bought a cheap cig with a cartomizer it was great i stopped smoking cigs and then i kept moving up with many other e-cigs and never really had a desire to smoke a cig but i would still have a smoke maybe once a month just to compare i guess and i found that those smokes started to taste real bad and left me with this damn awful taste in my mouth and on me that even using mouth wash wasn’t getting rid of it, just don’t know how anyone could handle being around smelling like that. My wound healed up and the dr’s say its a miracle and they think the e-cig is a great thing. If not for the e-cig and my wound not healing i was going to loose my leg flat out no way around it at all. So it was a miracle for me to be able to keep my leg and i owe it to my starting to use an e-cig. I had no big desire to stop smoking and it wasn’t the pressure of the dr’s i just thought it was worth a try, and for me it wasn’t hard to do, i have tried to get relatives to give it a try and they didn’t have the habit i did for so long but they have failed and because the e-cig didn’t taste exactly the same as there favorite smoke they didn’t give it a try. Sorry for them, but my son who is a marine who doesn’t smoke but he chews like most marines was here to visit a few weeks ago tried my e-caig and got into liking it he bought one of his own when he got back home and is now cut his chewing down by half so he will be in my book off the chew soon. So e-cigs has had a big impact on my life, just wish it would have been around when my dad was struggling with smokes and maybe just maybe he could have lived longer. Satisfied vapor guy

-Anonymous

Let’s see how would a 1 year vaping supply benefit me. Well I’ve been on state disability for 3 yrs now. I only get about $300 a month after bills are paid there isn’t much left over for vaping supplies. I have had to get rid of some comforts such as cable tv and my pc. I use my laptop it’s a little old but works fine on dial up. With the little bit of money I’ve saved and made selling my pc I was able to make a 5v box mod and get some DIY supplies to lessen the cost of vaping. But now, supplies are running low and so are my funds. I didn’t really want this to be a sob story but I did want to explain my situation. Am I deserving just because I’m hard up? Maybe not. But, it sure would help a lot I really don’t want to go back to cigarettes because at times they are cheaper then vaping. Thank you for reading this and thank you for such a great contest if I should win it I would be very grateful. Not to mention, when I could, I would pay it forward to another who is in need even if it’s only a bottle of juice to get them by until their next check. As money stricken as I am I still try my best to help others in need. If I have something a newbie needs I gladly pass it along. As long as it isn’t putting me out of vaping at all. Again thanks for a great contest and good luck to all who enter.

“Vaping helped me turn my life around”

I am addicted to vaping and I love it. I feel I have a very addicting personality. In my previous addictions it has been terrible. I was addicted to Heroin for 15 years. I have 3 years clean and sober since 2008 (THANK GOD). I was addicted to cigarettes for 24 years. I have been off analogs since Dec.2010, when I picked up my first E-CIG and never looked back. So my life is getting much better still looking for work I have been jobless since Nov. 2010. I keep praying that someone will give me a chance. But sorry back to my story about vaping, I really feel vaping has help me with all my demons. When I am feeling bad and there is no one to talk to I grab my EGO and sit in front of the computer and get involved in ecf forum or vaper place or just go on facebook and talk with other vapers. That helps me get my mind off things.I have also help to of my Mother’s friends out they smoked for over 40 years and I showed them my e-cig and help them buy one. So now when ever they get an order in they call me up and I stop over and help them show them how to clean there atty’s and what a cartomizer is. Things like that so I really enjoy my new vaping friends! I sit over the lady’s house and we joke around while vaping and drinking coffee and just hanging out its a lot better then going out and doing the wrong thing. So, you see how I feel vaping has really turned my life around it has put good people in my life  and I can’t wait I will be going to my first vaper meet next month.

-Anonymous

In our near past, my family and I (which consists of my high school sweetheart husband whom I have spent the last 14 years with, my 8 year old daughter, and 4 year old son) decided to take a day trip to the beach. We had the most perfect day together. On our way home driving up interstate 95, we were struck by two separate drunk drivers. While I sat in an off duty firefighters vehicle waiting for the arrival of the ambulance, I listened to the conversations of the on scene police officers and firefighters. I found out that a state trooper followed the drunk driver from the city through the county while on the verge of entering the next county heading north. This estimates at least 20 miles. The off duty firefighter who helped my family out of our vehicle signed a witness statement form since he was driving behind us when the accident occurred. All of the frustration was towards the initial drunk driver who caused the accident that they didn’t bother to press charges against the second driver who was also intoxicated.

Due to the negligent handling of this situation from a rookie officer, any witness statement forms were considered nonexistent. While at the hospital, we where asked to state that there was a plain clothed off duty officer in an unmarked vehicle on the scene first, not an officer wearing a full uniform in a marked vehicle.

My husband suffered spinal damage at the base of the neck as well as brain trauma. The spinal problems have caused a major loss of feeling on the right (his predominate side) side of his body which can escalate to a form of paralysis. His brain trauma caused me to keep post its around the house to remind him how to brush his teeth or operate a microwave.

My daughters car seat failed to keep her restrained. She broke the vehicles entire center console and was grabbed by me prior to going out the windshield. She still suffers from brain trauma issues also. Unfortunately due to the fact that they are intermittent, we are unable to pinpoint exactly what is happening during her episodes. An episode, as we call it, would consist of not being able to comprehend or remember any intellectually learned knowledge which started with writing her name or counting. These things have changed as her learning has progressed. My son was so young that although he has just started speaking in the last year, it is indeterminable what if any injuries were truly sustained.

My husband was the sole supporter of our family as a general manager for a custom home builder. A position he obtained working his way up very hard through the construction industry starting as a carpenter to a production/project manager. This was not an easy task considering he is now only 33. Most employers do not want to hire someone of his age with his experience while most of their existing employees in these positions are 20 years older than him.

So our roles have reversed. He supported me completely through my last two years of high school and again when I became pregnant with my daughter. Now due to his medical conditions, still fighting to get disability, and no employers wanting the risks involved with hiring him, the financial responsibilities fall to me after we lost our home and any dependable vehicles.

I home school my daughter due to her condition and take care of my family while trying to make any money possible on the side to keep our heads above water. There isn’t any true money in the case because the at fault driver didn’t have much coverage. I contacted MADD due to the amount of trouble I was having regarding this case from my own insurance company as well as the hired lawyer who wanted my family to attend accident doctors just to rack up medical bills and couldn’t truly comprehend the severity of the injuries. So I sought my own doctors for all evaluations, testings, and treatments. I met with the MADD lawyers and there wasn’t even enough money to cover the cost of their office help expenses to take our case. I can only hope that we are able to get enough of a settlement after paying all off the medical bills and a lawyer to attempt to re-establish some type of financial security for us with it.

I wrote a witness impact statement hoping the guy responsible would have to pay some form of restitution. While any form of extra income would be greatly appreciated, it wasn’t about the money but about the principle. I wanted him to sacrifice something for what he caused our family to sacrifice. The drunk driver who was charged was let go on it, as well as the victim statement ignored.

I started smoking ecigs about four months ago because I couldn’t afford to have any lost time due to increased bronchial infections from analog cigarettes, my constant on the go life style requires me to be and stay healthier, and the affordability of them compared to regular analog cigarettes speaks for itself.

So if I was asked how a year supply of ecig products would matter, I would have to say it would help phenomenally. I have learned any tiny amount in any shape or form adds up to make a difference. I am extremely grateful to still have my family alive and for anything that helps out.

-Anonymous

I think this is probably one of the hardest e-mails I have ever had to write, and its by pure coincidence that I’m sending this to you on Memorial Day. I know there are so many amazing people who are entering this contest, and I get by because I reuse things until they die. I received a lot of e-mails from really amazing people who told me I better enter or they were going to yell at me, in a loving way of course, I am sorry I waited till the last minute, I have low self worth issues. Also if I get on a roll, you poor guys are gonna have to read one of me rambling, and I can ramble, so get comfortable and hold on because I’m going to just let go and type.

I served 10 years and I had a really bad day November 14 which was my best friends birthday, trust me I have a knack for those really sad horrible life events, I often read my own story and say holy crap, I mean how much worse can it be?  but I think it makes me who I am, I don’t think I would look at life as I do had I not been through it all, and I look at life so differently I know what’s important. See this is how my rambling goes its like reading ADD LOL look a chicken…

Lets see if I can stay on a topic. I have been losing strength in my right side, which I just assumed was from the nerve damage on my spine. Well, I moved which means I got a new Pain Management Doctor, he did his exam and looked at me and said “I see you’re a smoker,” yeah so..well he said that because I was a smoker the chance of my loss of strength could be from a Mini STROKE  due to my smoking!! I freaked out, it hit me OMG this is dangerous, its like I knew the gun was loaded but I didn’t think it killed kind of epiphany, I was scared, really scared. I think I cried all the way home, what am I doing to myself?  When I got home I went online, the problem was I knew I tried it all already, but I thought THIS TIME I’m dead serious, I googled and there it was an electronic cigarette.  I sat staring at the screen, I had no other way to go, my last hope, so I went into a “Forum” never been to a forum before, so I opened the link and it’s a good thing I saw that “Live Chat” because its about the only thing I knew how to do, Talk or write but that’s obvious by now LOL  I asked What this vaping thing? Where do I go? What do I get? Boom…about five people wrote GET AN EGO FROM LIBERTY FLIGHTS and don’t forget to hit the 20% off banner. That’s what I did.

I got my kit a day before my MRA brain scan, still scared sh!tless, thinking I was going to die like my partner and soul mate yeah it’s a sad heart breaking story typical. I was smoking an analog as I opened it, my last chance in my hand. That was the last analog I smoked 5 months and 2 weeks ago, I did it I quit. Its not just quitting, its something so much more, I had control over something so powerful. All those failures, trying to quit and realizing that this cigarette is stronger than me, and I was unable even in the face of death to quit, it controlled me. Quitting gave me power again, I was back in control and it started a domino effect. I had control over my life again, not another failure. I was smoking an analog when I opened it, I know I said it before but even the thought I might have suffered a STROKE I couldn’t stop. This freaky, simple looking thing worked! Oh it wasn’t a stroke that causing the strength from my right side to go screwy, trust me I was never so strangely relieved, but I knew one thing and that was I was no longer going to ever have that fear again, because I stopped smoking immediately when I got my ego, talk about weird feeling.

Hey, I warned you guys, I get on a roll and blaaah rambling..I went back to that chat room, and from there I learned about how to  navigate the ECF forum, and it was the first forum I had ever been in, so I read and watched and I started to notice something about the people there, they genuinely cared and wanted to help, I was set back, I’ll get to that, its just how I write I bounce. I noticed the way people wrote, how they felt and the things they did for each other Sure you bump into those honest, caring, honorable people once in a while, but this wasn’t like that, there were a lot of them and I made some connections with people that I will hold very close to me This was something I never imagined possible because I had given up. I can be hurt and my scars run pretty deep, I think we all have things that tear us to our very core, I reached my ENOUGH! I decided that if I didn’t let anyone in than no one could hurt me, so I shut down, moved to no where. I felt safe, secure and alone. I walked away from everything and everyone, people I knew for decades, people I thought were my dear friends, just stood by as my world began to crumble, did nothing, I could never do that, even to a stranger, everything I thought I knew was gone, I figured I was just wired differently, I didn’t fit in, and so I went away. I just can’t take anymore and the further inside I went the farther away from people I went.

I don’t know how it happened or even when it happened but it just did. I see a crowd of people and my heart starts to race, heck I even sweat, I feel like I can’t catch my breath. When I first came in the chat room, I was like OMG people everywhere. Then I realize hey, It’s ok I’m safe just a name, and some of my friends were there I can do this right, I’m just a fly on the wall, a window licker. I watched safe in my zone . The more I watched, the more I saw how much THESE strangers cared for people, heck forget that just names, people walked in and the next thing I see is bunches of people genuinely wanting to help, they didn’t even know these strangers, and they were helping, all they cared about was “please vape” I mean hands on here, let us help you? I’m thinking twilight zone, is this for real? Why are these people really doing this? For no personal gain, more like personal loss. I love ECF they are amazing, there is a thread called PIF. Pay It Forward its dedicated to keep those who are financially challenged to keep on vaping, people who donate equipment and juice to those who just can’t afford. Even as I write this and attempt to share how it feels, I get that tight feeling in my chest its like people doing these amazing things for strangers, that other only talk about, and it’s not that “ohh I’m doing a good deed look at me,” its real! Honestly real. Me being the sceptic and looking for the nasty dark side I did a bit of my own “danger will Robinson danger” but it never happened and I started to crack, as If I wasn’t already cracked.

I’m tired, so tired of shielding myself all I kept thinking about is this real? Then, I just, let my guard go when I had both my batteries fail on me I was in a panic I didn’t know what to do, I went into chat I was hoping there was something I could do to get my batteries to work I was almost in tears, then out of no where I received PM asking for my address, normally I would never give out my address, but my  mailbox is miles away from my physical address and I was panicked. What happened next changed my life forever,  I was able with a trick someone in chat taught me, I was able to get at least get an hour of use between charges. Two days later, I opened my mailbox and out came 3 packages, when I got home and opened them, as I said earlier my life changed forever, I opened the first one and out came an ego battery and juice, the other two contained the same, I had tears flowing down my cheeks, how was it possible that these people who were complete strangers to me would send me these things?  What I received was far more than batteries and juice, and far more precious.  I never expected to have my life change in the way it has, the more I got to know people in the vaping community the more I started to heal, I wasn’t panicked anymore  I laughed and it just started happening, like before but in reverse. I know this wasn’t what I was supposed to write, you probably saw how much was on this e-mail and thought oh crap……I call them e-novels.

I know this contest is for someone who without this opportunity could in no way afford to keep vaping, trust me I fit the bill. I said earlier “chapter 1″ I already won, I think by now you understand what I meant. This contest is amazing, and very generous. I am blessed to know so many wonderful people that help me, but it hurts I have a very hard time accepting  things from others, this would give me the opportunity to stand on my own two vaping feet. I’m currently fighting for my Military benefits, I am on a tight fixed income, currently I receive SSDI. I often times go hungry at the end of the month, so its very difficult for me to afford the  things needed to vape, I thankfully have learned how to get as much use out of the gear I do have. I can’t say “thank you” enough for this opportunity along with the amazing generosity of everyone in this community. I didn’t think in today’s society, where people judge you on your worth to them, what can you give me world were in, that anything like this, these people, this entire community still exist and are strong…Thank you, for the first time I think “yeah this was worth it”

-Anonymous

I started using e-cigs Mar 1 of this year when a friend gave me an Ego kit, and have not had any tobacco since Mar 2nd. I have been unemployed for two years and have no steady income. We had a tornado hit Wed. May 26 that took a lot of my juice supply and all of my cartomizers. Wining this contest would give me a good supply and help me stay away from cigarettes.

About 6 years ago I suffered from a heart attack and had to undergo open heart surgery.

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