Featured Mixer: Addy Tuney

Quick Tidbits About Addy Tuney

• Industrial Electrician that loves to build crazy coils, mod kayfuns, and flame stainless steel to “bring out them purdy oxides”.
• Advocates to bring out the truth – that vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking – and to keep vaping around for the 35 million smokers that have not tried or found it yet.
• Enjoys mixing his own eliquid and creating interesting recipes.

Addy Tuney’s Introduction to Vaping

In 2013, Addy took his mother to the doctor to sign-off on and prepare for her hip replacement. The nurse told his mother that she needed to be smoke-free for a minimum of 10 days prior to the surgery. As a smoker for 45 years and with the already intimidating surgery approaching, it’s safe to say his mom was nervous about the requirement. The nurse’s suggestion to help his mom succeed at the demand – “take your mom to get a vape”. In one short week, Addy, his mom, and his wife were all smoke-free and “struggling on Kanger eGo setups”.

The Leap Into DIY Mixing

Soon after going smoke-free, Addy Tuney found Phil Busardo, GrimmGreen, and RiP Trippers on YouTube. Those vape community influencers inspired him to spread the word about how much better vaping makes you feel. RiP Trippers taught him how to rebuild eGo tank coils with organic cotton balls and 28g wire – the flavor difference was amazing. Not too long after that, he found a local vape shop (Niagara Mist Vapors) with a wide variety of “house juices” that he liked. Intrigued by in-house mixing, Addy connected with the owner/operator, Luke, asking him question after question until Luke agreed to a trade: Addy would teach him how to build and Luke would teach Addy how to make eliquid recipes. Three weeks later, Luke was building away and Addy was mixing…and he was mixing well enough that Luke put couple of his juices on the menu at his shops.

Addy’s Suggestions For Those That Want to Get Into DIY But Are Intimidated or Unsure

For those that want to try their hand at DIY eliquid, make it easy on yourself; get a bottle of premixed VG in the nicotine strength you currently vape, a bottle of PG, and a DIY mixing kit. Peruse flavor profiles – search All The Flavors and e-Liquid Recipes for a simple mix you might like and just have a go at it.

A Pro Tip: Download “The Flavor Bible” prior to mixing your own recipes, so you know what flavors complement each other.

Vape Community Involvement

Addy: “I love the community because we all have something in common; wanting a less harmful alternative to deadly burning tobacco. I try to surround myself with caring people that want to help others. I am lucky to have met and befriend so many awesome vapers!”

He is active on:
Instagram – @tuney219
YouTube – Addy Tuney
e-Liquid Recipes – Search “tuney”

He thinks you should check out:
Fresh03 YouTube Channel
SPORKLyFE YouTube Channel
Rin Vapes YouTube Channel

What is The Best Way For People to Advocate for Vaping?

Addy: “Advocating for vaping is easy to do, but takes a bit of your time. Talk to friends, family, and smokers about the Royal College of Physicians study that found vaping at least 95% less harmful the the body than burning tobacco. Popcorn lung is a scare tactic that does not apply to vaping or even smoking (cigarettes have a minimum of one hundred times more Diacetyl than the worst-case eliquid). Text “resist” to 50409 and tell your representatives how important vaping is to you [and] how much better you feel. Call your representatives (you just talk to an intern that forwards your message). Follow the calls-to-action from CASAA.org, vaportechnology.org, and notblowingsmoke.org.”

“Know that big pharma/big healthcare, and a lot of healthcare organizations, are losing multimillions and funding because of the upsetting technology that vaping is. Know that states are also losing millions in master tobacco settlement agreement money. 100s of millions are being paid to public opinion companies that put out lies and twist the data to make it look like vaping is just as bad as, or worse than, smoking – [when] teen and adult smoking is the lowest it has ever been. 70,000 opioid deaths last year, [and] suicide deaths up 3.7%! Twice as many teens attempted suicide as the amount of teens that are vaping, yet teen vaping is an “epidemic”. Federal/local governments want to ban flavors instead of addressing more important, true issues that are killing people.”

That’s All Folks

A big THANK YOU goes to Addy Tuney for letting us write about him and for his willingness to share his personal experiences with us all!

That’s all we have for now, but stayed tuned for more mixer features throughout the year!

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