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cigarette-free life – Steve realised that the activity he’s able to do even better now as a vaper, is playing his music.

Now, when playing alongside his highenergy band, at the end of their set, he’s no longer left feeling exhausted but ready to do it all over again.

Steve Douglas said: “My onstage energy has vastly improved since making the switch and my vocal range has extended, giving me more power and control when singing.”

After failing to quit his smoking habit countless times, Skip Murray figured ‘I’d smoke until I’d die’.

That was until late 2014 when she started vaping as a dual user in public spaces where cigarettes were banned.

It wasn’t until a few months later that Skip noticed she’d accidentally quit smoking all together, with the help of

Flash forward to eight years later and her horrid cough had disappeared.

Throughout her time as a smoker, Skip struggled to sleep as her ‘smokers cough’ would often keep her up at night leaving her with difficulty breathing.

Now, post-cigarettes, she often gets a full night’s sleep and finds herself full of energy, which she utilises to work on her passion for vaping advocacy.

Vaping advocate Michelle said: “Doctors told me I would not be alive at my age now if I didn’t stop smoking.”

Now at fifty-eight years old, making the switch to vaping all those years ago saved her life.

Michelle’s trusty e-cigarette facilitated her quitting what was a 43-year smoking habit and now, in her own words she says

‘everyday is a bonus day’.

After suffering with anxiety, she found that vaping was not only better for her physical health, but for her mental health too.

The device has helped to soother her anxiousness, even more than her heavier medications that she told us ‘are hard on my body’.