I started smoking cigarettes at the age of 17. By the time I was 20, I was smoking about one pack a day. In 2018, I started vaping to save money.

Back then, a vape cost about the same as a pack of cigarettes, but it lasted for about a month. I eventually vaped more than I smoked because I didn’t need to leave my house to vape.

In June 2024, my cousin’s girlfriend introduced me to Kpods. She told me: “This thing is stronger than cigarettes.”

I didn’t think much of it, but when I started visiting KTVs and clubs with my cousin, he would share his Kpods with me.

At first, I used it only when I went drinking with him, but later on I started visiting the clubs without him. At the clubs, I met people who were using and selling Kpods, and began buying from them.