Choose, choose to be hotter every day.
By quitting the vape.
By quitting the vape.
OK.
Alright, guys, we're out here in Manly, and we’re gonna find out if people are still vaping and are they trying to quit?
What are the strategies that they're using and is it working?
Do you vape?
No, but I used to back home.
OK.
Yeah.
So you've quit?
Yeah, I quit.
Yes, yes, I do.
How often are you vaping?
Daily, I guess.
How often are you guys vaping?
Pretty often.
Every day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, never vaped?
No.
Do you vape?
Nah, not at all.
Not at all, never vaped?
I've had like two puffs.
Yeah, yeah, was that like kind of peer pressure sort of thing?
Nah, not peer pressure, just wanted to try it.
Just curious?
Yeah.
And you didn't find it appealing at all?
Nah, coughed me lungs out, so never again.
Yeah, it's totally fair.
I do, yeah.
How often are you vaping?
On the weekends.
Everyday.
What are the like the strategies or the things that helped you quit?
I literally just woke up, it was about two years ago and I was like, why am I doing this? So I just literally went cold turkey and never vaped again.
I had to quit 'cause I started like struggling to breathe while playing footy.
I felt like it was just not yeah, it's not attractive thing.
Yeah, yeah.
What was the hardest thing about quitting?
Probably, probably I feel like I need to hit it.
Like, was it hard quitting at first?
It was really hard.
Yeah.
It was really bad.
When they try and quit, you go on a night out and everyone's vaping.
Yeah.
So it's really easy to say ‘can have a bit of that?’ and then they’ll go and buy their own vape again. All my friends have found it quite hard.
Yeah.
If you were to give them some advice or tips to try to quit vaping, is there anything, you know, that works or?
So I started eating gum a lot.
Yeah.
And I found it was a good, like, substitute sort of thing.
Yeah, awesome.
Patches.
OK. Like, as in, like, patches on the arms?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Cool, cool.
Yeah don't buy one. Normally helps.
Yeah, step one.
There you go. Don't buy a vape. Yeah, that's a great step one.
Yeah.
Have you heard of the My Quit Buddy app?
No.
It's kind of a government funded app which pretty much works to help you, like, track your progress, set goals, join a community as well to like, learn about who else has got some good stories and how they quit and they can share tips as well.
Yeah, sounds awesome.
Well, it seems like you don't really need the app though. You already quit.
No.
Good work on you.
Pass it on.
Yeah, exactly. Pass the app on to your friends, there you go.