why i'll never do a FÜM sponsorship
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- So Fum tried to sponsor me. And then I came to SXSW in Austin, Texas and guess who had a booth in the expo hall? FUM! So welcome to a totally unpaid review that I in fact didn't even pay money for the product to review it. Only an Instagram story post.
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Its the AirUp of cigarettes.
That was my exact thought! Without the hydration benefit though.
we're truly moving into the lorax movie dystopia. If companies could charge for the air itself they would
I got an AirUp bottle and it actually works. It’s definitely not the same as drinking something actually flavored, but it does add a flavor that makes water more enjoyable. I think the ads influencers put out for it raises expectations a little too much, but for me it helped me get my water intake up.
@@ville__did I miss something?
@@AdjectiveOtterit’s a bot lol
People who say weed isn’t addictive don’t understand that anything that you can use as an escape or a way to control your internal or external environment can be very addictive to someone prone to mental illness.
Yeah, that applies to a lot of things. Like, a lot.
It is good to avoid things that'll mess you up if you're in that boat. But in addition to that, it's also a good idea to develop healthy coping skills so you don't end up addicted to food or something else you have no way of avoiding.
Plus! They don't understand that it is literally altering your dopamine system, aka hijacking your brain chemistry. I'm pro-legalization, but with that comes safety!!!
Yeah. I'm addicted to weed.
Yup people use exercise. Food. Coffee. Candy. Shopping. Etc these are just more acceptable forms of addiction. But anything can be an addiction for someone who had the disposition to addiction
When people say that, they mean a physical addiction. If you quit weed, you won't get the shakes and your body won't crave it.
0:52 in Psych 101 classes weed is quite literally the textbook example of psycjological addiction. It may not be physically addictive, but some people get so used to being high that it's like they don't know how to do things sober.
as someone who didn’t think they were addicted but most definitely was addicted-weed is definitely psychologically addictive. you’re spot on. for like a whole month after everything sucked to do sober. everything was boring asf. a whole ass month of literally nothing bringing you even the tiniest bit of pleasure or joy. i 100% would not have made it through that month if i weren’t heavily motivated to get treatment for my sleep disorder (needed to pass a drug test to get it). feels dumb to say i was addicted to a plant but i 100% was.
@@thegeorgiemoorei mean if it helps, basically every addiction is to a plant. alcohol is fruit. tobacco is a leaf. opium is from flowers. if plants didn't have the potential for addiction we'd never smoke them.
no, weed does have minor physical addictiveness. Psychology 101 is very surface-level
@@thegeorgiemoore "everything sucked to do sober. everything was boring asf. a whole ass month of literally nothing bringing you even the tiniest bit of pleasure or joy" I feel that so much. It's been almost a decade since I stopped smoking weed or drinking, though weed was my drug of choice, and that was one of the thoughts that made me realize I was addicted. A few times I was left with no supply and everything was so dull, I couldn't even enjoy music like I used to. Whenever the effect was about to wear off and I had stuff to do, I would smoke first because otherwise what was the point in my mind. I'll never try that thing again.
Not trying to convince you or anything. However, you can use weed to overreach and stay at a peak working load and then recover fast to gain atheltic gain. In my case, calisthenics.
Absolutely wonderful and when you train so hard you lose your appetite but that's not a problem anymore.
It's dystopian and weird that it's so reassuring to see a youtuber talking openly about not supporting a common sponsorship.
im14andthisisdeep
I honestly don't trust any of the companies that aggressively promote their products/services through sponsored ads across social media like TH-cam.
*side-eyes AirUp*
It’s also majorly overpriced. You have been able to buy similar products for decades. Most of their competitors are only about $10-20.
I don’t know if these are harmful at all, and I can see where they have their place (for example, I would use one because if I am sitting with my friends at a bar, I’m the only non-smoker. We’ll be on the patio and the longer we sit there the more I want one of their cigarettes. I use a 0% nicotine vape for this reason), but I fear the way this is being advertised will lead to the same problem vaping did.
Ya the campaigns they run across the same genre of youtubers is weird
betterhelp
I've picked up 2 products from YT sponsorships. one got my credit card number from its "totally legit" banking establishment stolen literally daily until I had to cancel, and the other was an overpriced sleep mask that turned out to be dropshipped (thanks Nickisnotgreen)
"it sounds like you're judging me"
"it sounds like you're projecting"
i swear amanda is the common sense influencer that the internet needs right now
Honestly this was such a good quote, my fiance always says they feel like I’m judging them when I don’t mean to and her saying that made me realize “omg he is just projecting!” 😱🤦🏼 I went to college for 2 years to be a therapist
Joking right?
@@fugitive_ That is so unfair. "I think OJ did it" is not an admission of guilt from the person saying it.
When I was in the navy, there was a big push to try and get sailors to stop smoking. One of the things they gave out were these packs of "cigarettes" that were just mint or cinamon scented filters all the way down. That's it. Worked the same way. Helped people get the addictive motion out of the way.
Muuuuuch cheaper. This isn't a new product, it's just "fanci"
If anything that would be MORE effective, as someone who is on and off smoking and vaping, I have found lots of quitting aids don't help me as it's not the nicotine I'm craving, but the resistance and feeling of smoking. I was thinking of picking one of these up but this vid stopped me
You get 3 cores in one pouch. One pouch cost $10 before taxes and shipping. Each core lasts 2-3 days realistically maybe 1 for the heavy smoker. You need to buy 10 pouches for a month. It ends up being like $1200 a year. For AIR
While I am highly skeptical of FUM, $3.33 per day for a smoking replacement is still less than cigarettes, which are about $14 a pack where I am.
EDIT: Nicorette inhalers (which operate the same way as FUM, but they contain nicotine) would be $8 - $16 per day.
@@MayhemVT. 305 "cigars" are 1.80 a pack. And last about 2 days for most people
They are basically cheap cigarettes
At least with cigarettes you get something. You got nicotine and tobacco. This is literally just a tube in which you suck air through and it’s on par with a cigarette habit price wise.
@@PsilomuscimolWe don't have those here, fortunately
I feel like we've gone almost full circle to rebranding regular cigarettes as a vape alternative bc they're "naturally derived" and "plant based"
In a few years when Tabasco companies are actively marketing that, I’m going to think back on this comment and laugh. I feel like you’re predicting the future.
Deadass saw a bunch of cans of dip at the gas station that said “smokeless tabacco” on them. My campus is supposed to be smoke free but i see empty dip cans on the ground on campus all the time
FUM are at least trying something different with an idea that came out back in teh 1970's and has been doing the rounds on Facebook of late... The BREATHLACE
It is a Necklace with a Metal Tube that you such through instead of a Cigarette or Vape... And I mean that QUITE LITERALLY! That's all it is! And for the low, low Price of $80!!!
At least FUM has Flavours... But its pretty much the same idea. A Placebo to try and keep your hands busy, Which as a "Smoker" (Again, I have switched to Vapes, but once a Smoker always a Smoker... The same as an Alcoholic, You can NEVER go back as even a Touch can start that craving again!!! An Alcoholic is always an Alcoholic... A Smoker is always a Smoker... Its too easy to fall of the wagon and back in to the habit! You will never hear an Alcoholic call themselves an EX Alcoholic... ) - That is something I struggle with...
If I am not Vaping, I need to be doing SOMETHING with my hands... And I am even realising that is a big reason why I type such LONG TH-cam Comments! It not just trying to make a point clear and not leave room for interpretation, but because I need to keep my hands busy to stop "Sparking Up"
Aww, but don't you wanna unplug, and enjoy your nicotine in a 100% analog manner?❤
@@AsherBunnymanthis is the future 😭
Never noticed Swell's fidgeting, why y'all gotta ruin shit for everyone else? Be cool to Swell let her fidget away she makes quality content and has genuine integrity. Love your work lady, keep it up! 💕
I'm happy to see a real review of this thing because I've been seeing it everywhere. I have so many questions about AirUp, which I have also seen everywhere. With all this "flavoured air," "no calories" advertising, we're circling all the way back to the vicious diet culture of my childhood. They're selling us fragrances so we can use plastic pods to encourage us to drink potable fresh water. A bunch of YTers I watch say it works but some dude I've never heard of tried it and it was awful. It feels like even disclosing an ad doesn't mean it's trustworthy.
I read (in comments of another youtube video) that the way air up works is basically relying on smell interactions that are really inconsistent for different people and not mentioning that at all. So it's basically a die roll. For some people it will actually work exactly as advertised. Other people will get almost nothing, or an actively unpleasant experience. Honestly it's kind of even worse than if it was just a scam, because some of the youtubers advertising it have probably used it and genuinely enjoyed it, with no idea a bunch of their fans who buy it will have a terrible experience.
It’s not for you! It’s for neurodivergent individuals who don’t like the taste of plain water but don’t want to add sugary flavored syrups to fix that.
@@thegoodwitchluzura Bitch I am neurodivergent.
4:11 can i just say that "natural plants" create the "harmful chemicals" ?
Yup. Whenever I hear the "natural equals safe" argument, I just remind myself that foxglove and hemlock exist. 😅
Also, people are way more likely to be allergic to natural compounds compared to artificial ones, since the natural stuff is often a lot more complex.
Poison ivy is natural, but I wouldn't make a skin cream with it.
Tobacco is literally a plant 😂 I thought of that too when it said “natural from plants”
Tobacco is a natural plant too.
fum now with all natural death cap mushrooms
Swell saying no to a bag to be honest to her viewers is what we need from more influencers
She's for the people fr!!! We love an honest queen.
What makes you think they offered her a sponsor deal? I'm just saying, maybe she was never even offered the bag.
@@MaestroAlvisdid you watch the video? Lmao
@@MaestroAlvisit was probably when she said that she was offered a sponsorship but idk man
Give me a break, there’s plenty of other sponsors she will push on us. It’s just another video for her.
As a smoker who who tries to stop with the help of vaping (not the throwaways, I use a reusable one and I build the coils by myself) THANK YOU for talking about FÜM!
They sell themselves as sustainable but neither the price nor the waste they are producing is. Especially the price is hilariously high. There is no way the product itself is worth this amount of money... may be the reason why they are spending so much money on marketing.
Knowing the sketch quality of oils, the "economy" of scale is going to make them cut corners.
HELLO AMANDA! DISPENSARY AGENT HERE TO SAY: what you said about doing stuff socially makes perfect sense. My family is the same way. ALSO… doing a dab usually involves a blow torch so the sentence “doing a dab while talking to people” as if you just pulled out a glass piece and a blow torch and kept the conversation rolling made me burst out laughing. Especially with that stilted hit off the FUM afterwards lol, really painted an image
Lmaooo imagine pulling a full glass piece and blowtorch out of your pocket at a party like a vape 💀 I love that visual. Good for Amanda for knowing her boundaries, nothing wrong with that!
Yeah but she's in California. Mobile dab devices like cartridges and such can definitely be the norm in her circles which is probably what she's talking about. I personally have had quite a few as a former budtender and it's nice to have socially. I don't buy cartridges anymore because I go through them quickly but brands like yocan, pax, and puffco all make portable dab devices.
Dispensary agent thats never heard of carts lol
@@derikk3674probably because carts and dabs are in fact two different things. While most people would think of a cart when someone says they have a dab it’s reasonable for someone else to think of the full glass rig as well
@@keelinmacken9552 the dispensaries around me have rosin and shatter carts so you can have a dab on the go. Also concentrate pens do exist so I can load my own dab in. But usually people do think distillate carts and dabs are the same
Just because the substance isn’t addictive doesn’t make the habit any less addictive
@ville__ if you're not Corporal Wojtek then we don't care
It does though. It severely lowers your chance of becoming addicted because there is no chemical addiction component.
Ehhhhhhh, but not really though? Chemical physical addiction is much stronger than a learned or conditioned habit. Chemical addictions also come with physical withdrawal symptoms which provide another powerful hurdle to overcome when you're trying to change your usage.
@@CreativeC13what about the dopamine though? people with addictive personalities (idr if amanda has adhd but it’s super common with us bc of the neurological mechanisms) will absolutely get addicted to anything and everything if it gives you that dopamine hit. i’d argue it at least partially counts as a chemical component.
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaria if you're dedicated to quitting, this will help you break a nicotine dependency, and then you can step down to remove the physical need.
My mother used lollipops to quit smoking, which I reckon is probably less healthy than this.
you can always 100% have a dependency on a substance even if its not technically addictive
facts! addictive behaviors alter your brain chemistry regarding the dopamine system, and this can be really rough for people!
In my opinion, chemically addictive = addiction, mentally addictive = dependency. Addictive personalities are susceptible to both. I don’t know why people are confused.
@@erinbeaud4556hi, licensed addiction counselor here, using the term “dependent” for mental addictions wouldn’t be accurate because when someone takes a medication for too long and their body becomes dependent on it (but they’re not addicted) then we say they are “dependent” on the substance rather than being addicted because their bodies have grown to become dependent on it. Your opinion could still be valid but I’m just explaining to you what a “dependency” is in the realm of addiction. Have a good day and say no to the bad stuff!
@@erinbeaud4556 I’d actually argue the opposite. Things that create a physical addiction are often referred to as a chemical dependency. Whereas any behavior can become an addiction.
Even if it's not physically addictive it can be mentally addictive
"You sound like you're judging me"
"No, it sounds like you're projecting"
Iconic 💅
When I met my wife, she smoked vape every other regular breath. She was addicted to the point that she felt uncomfortable if she went more than 20 minutes without her hand on a vape. I asked her to switch to nicotine free vape. After the nicotine cravings passed, I asked her to switch to FUM. After 1 year of using FUM, she no longer vapes. She actually rarely uses the FUM, for that matter. I am 1 month away from graduating from medical school, so I like to think I know enough to make an educated assessment of this device. I do not think inhaling essential oils could be considered healthy in any sense, but compared to what she was doing before FUM, this is so much better. It helped her kick her addiction to vapes. In my opinion, this shouldn't be the next thing you use permanently; it should be something you use to eventually reach the ultimate goal of quitting any kind of smoking. That being said, there has to be more research into the oils they use. I can not safely recommend using this without it. It is a tool used to quit, that is all.
Same. They made me an offer as well and I could not get comfortable with the idea of promoting anything that involves smoking. I just doubt it’s as safe as they claim.
I work in chemicals and it makes me so sus. Tbh, a lot of people i watch who took this sponsorship, i stopped watching because it feels like a gateway to cigarettes. I keep seeing it on channels that trend younger too.
Its one thing to me if you make your bank with ads for things that aren't as good as they claim, or are a novelty gift, but this feels like a gateway to smoking, aimed at children, but pretending its to help smokers quit.
This. I hate it when creators advertise vice-related stuff, crypto, or betting. Huge no-no
@@ville__u sound like a peepee poopoo guy frfr
@@ville__ it astounds me people are willing to pollute the internet with negativity just to bot and get outrage clicks. truly selling out your fellow human beings. I feel like if kids grew up with the cartoons I did they'd have seen enough cartoon bad guys to know nobody likes people like that!
@@ville__oh wow the bot is gaining sentience and thinks their low tier content is better than a TH-camr doing journalism
I think it's a good product for people quitting nicotine but the fact that it's being advertised on channels that primarily have teenage audiences is very strange. Personally, I started smoking hemp cigarettes socially a few months ago because I can't always smoke weed and need to drive after a party (they are also known to be aids in quitting smoking). But then I started smoking cigs socially. The hemp cigs were almost a gateway into smoking the real thing. It was almost like they made me develop that oral fixation habit that smokers have. I could see this doing the same thing for teenagers who get their hands on it. "Well I already like the pull and the feel in my mouth, so why don't I try the real thing?" and the rest is history. Just a weird marketing tactic. It's the same as the juul being so heavily marketed as an alternative to smoking cigs that people started smoking cigs because they started with a juul.
A lot of teens vape unfortunately
@@ville__jys
well, people started smoking cigs because juuls have nicotine. if you put an addictive substance into anything, yes, people will get hooked on that particular substance and they will seek it in other forms if possible. i'm not really sure "flavored air" is an addictive substance (and i understand why swell doesn't understand how "flavored air" isn't just vaping but they are fundamentally very different).
personally, as someone who got hooked on vaping after trying to quit cigarettes, i feel like i am the target audience for this- when i was younger the vape thing was brand-new, and also restricted to older people in niche communities who mixed juices themselves, which was its own problem, but also the options for going totally nicotine-free existed back then. if you already have an oral fixation and an addiction to nicotine, satisfying one without the other does help you quit. the problem is, now it's commercialized and every vape you buy is disposable with an insane amount of nicotine content, so those of us who were using it as a cessation device (and kicked nicotine, but hadn't yet kicked the oral habit) found ourselves swept up in big tobacco's next move against the youth. it sucked. it still sucks, because the nicotine-free vapes do exist but they're hard to find. they also HEAT THE CHEMICALS which is the big difference between vapes and just inhaling flavored air. my doctors say vaping is not unsafe but i don't know if i believe them. vaping should've never become anything but a cessation device but i'm not surprised by corporate greed. just disappointed that we were so close to stomping out big tobacco entirely and here they are, getting teenagers addicted to this shit.
i don't trust sponsors who need to advertise so heavily to get an audience, so i'm not touching this thing until i have better information about what's inside it (flavored air =/= safe) but we interact with scented and flavored air all the time, i don't think it's impossible for it to be safe. i also would be very confused if this began a nicotine addiction for anyone when it has no nicotine. it's the same oral fixation that people satisfy with chewing gum and stuff, so why would they just decide to do regular vaping if all they're addicted to is having something in their mouth? exhaling smoke is part of the fixation too, and this device doesn't do that. maybe i just don't understand what motivates kids to vape nowadays, i was pretty sure it was about the nicotine because it's addictive, but possibly that has changed? if kids are overly willing to inhale just to inhale, even with no substances inside of it, that's concerning to me. if it's true, that means there's a societal pressure to vape that didn't exist before. and that's very troubling!
I work around a bunch of 18 year olds and I was shocked to find out they almost all vape, and admit to being addicted to it.
I don't think any of them smoke regular cigarettes.
Thats because the younger generation vapes and use e cigs than cigarettes nowadays
Are you not going to talk about how dystopian this is? This is the second product that is literally selling air. This year is the year that air is being sold
This is to help people who are addicted and their lungs are suffering have a chance to quit and breathe again have some compassion
@@HvacHeathen cmon, FUM doesn't care about smokers. they care about taking our money. I mean, this fum shit is more expensive than cigs and vapes, AND I feel like smokers are more likely to get emotionally dependent on FUM to try to stay away from smoking and therefore spend even MORE money, and thats IF this smoking air shit even works. which I doubt it would. FUM clearly lacks understanding on smokers mentality and WHY people enjoy the physical aspects on smoking cigs/vaping.
I’m 18 and I was interested in füm since some of my favorite youtubers were promoting it. I’ve never used nicotine or weed products, but I wanted to purchase a Füm pen since it claimed to not be addictive and actually good for calming effects. I’m really glad I found this video before buying one
Just a word of advice, if anyone or anything says something isn't addictive while they're using it, it might not be for them because at that point it's just a habit or routine that they work around. For someone new however, it could definitely be addictive and that goes for anything.
As someone who also believes that I have a “addictive personality” I appreciate you mentioning how you chose to abstain from some stuff!
Same. I don't think most people around me understand, especially back in my home country. I tend to (excessively to be honest but that's just how my brain works) abstain from everything that I feel might be addictive. That includes stuff like coffee. Because I noticed I have signs of an addictive personality and so so so many people in my family were extreme chain smokers and/or alcoholics. The fact that most of them were high functioning addicts only makes me more scared.
It's seriously SO important. When my kid is old enough to understand, I plan on explaining to him about my struggles with addiction. It's so important that he knows that he is at an especially high risk when it comes to "experimenting." I feel like most parents don't have these discussions because of shame, and it's really doing your kid a disservice...though I completely understand how difficult it is.
@@minano-nim6795 I‘m the same way, I have an addictive personality and family members who’ve died of alcoholism, so I completely 100% avoid any addictive substances. Awareness is so important. I’m proud of you for being aware and doing what’s right for you ❤
Have any of you in this thread been tested for adhd? It's often hereditary and where the addictive personality comes from for me, you have a decifit of dopamine and lower impulse control so addiction is really common like 2x more than non adhd people. Some people use substances like weed, alcohol, and caffeine to self medicate too. Personally Ive dealt with shopping and eating disorder addictions.
Psychological addiction is ABSOLUTELY real!! It's the reason gambling and shopaholics exist. Neither of those are substances, yet they ruin lives. As somebody in substance recovery, i say do what is best for you, your well-being and the wellbeing of your family and friends by proxy.♡♡
Between this and air up I am fascinated with products that are basically the ghost of a thing that is bad in excess, and so are increasingly absurd amounts of nothing at a premium. I assumed these were expensive but 90 dollars to suck air through a tube. Incredible
I mean when you consider the price of typical carts by themselves and cigs it’s not really absurd. I also think it’s disingenuous to compare this to airup when this is actually attempting to help people
At first I thought it was that Air Up thing which is just a water bottle with perfume pods in it.
i mean this is like liquid death for drinking, give the social experience of smoking while getting very little.
@deee71194 nah dude, 25 for vape juice that most can use for a month. Vapes can be as cheap as $20 with cores that last an average of at least a week for $5. And unless you smoke at least 3 packs a week or live in California, it's not even cheaper than cigarettes
Because something is more expensive doesn't justify it's price. I could spend more money on a fancy car, that doesn't mean normal cars aren't overpriced. You can achieve the same with just essential oil and a napkin@@deee71194
I'm a 170 days clean from cigarettes and vaping today. Im 21, started smoking at around 14.
It was definitely a choice for me, i started as a form of self harm and carried on after developing a restrictive eating disorder. My eating disorder was definitely a factor in making me smoke more. I don't think i was ever addicted like i should have been considering how long i smoked, quitting was relatively easy and, though i sometimes get the urge, it still is easier than advertised despite living with my indoor smoking mum.
I started vaping when i got to high school, maybe a year in? People around me, and crucially my brother, started vaping, pretending to be 18 and getting a vape from local stores during the "boom" of vaping. I started because the idea of flavours and stuff was attractive, a lot better than the nauseating smell of (especially industrial) tobacco cigarettes. I bought maybe 3-4 vapes in total over the years, the old fashioned ones, mixed my e-liquid myself and fiddled with the more technical aspects of vaping. Vaping became quite important to my ED as well, sometimes I'd hit for flavour because i didn't allow myself anything else.
170 days ago, i was preparing for surgery and decided to use it as an opportunity to quit for good. I'm used to ignore cravings and strong bodily urges to consume things (yk, like food) so it might have played a part for sure. The only bad cravings i get are when i drink alcohol, especially in social settings and even more so in uncomfortable social settings. I almost begged one of my partners' colleagues for a smoke at his Christmas work party because i was in sensory overload and had had a few drinks :/ Not a good look lol. Other than that, im really not seeing much of a difference to be honest.
Anyway, all of this to say ; I l'd stay away from this. In my and some other people's case, the habit of inhaling from a stick and feeling smoke pool in your lungs is the kick you're after. If this resembles it a little, I'd stay away from it. What made me quit vaping simultaneously to cigarettes was that breaking the habit was the most important thing for me. The nicotine I knew i could do without, the inhaling of *something* : not so much. My addiction resided more in the sensory process of smoking than the substance itself. I don't think i could have quit cigarettes without quitting vaping because one was the gateway to the other no matter in which order. I think it's interesting a company is advertising they can help people break their addiction without breaking the habit of putting something to your mouth to inhale, that's not something i believe would have been helpful to me or the smokers around me. Much like vaping, this feels like a trade sort of thing, using a semili of cigarettes as a crutch to stop smoking them but relying so much on the alternative that you can't quit that too. This makes sense as a business model, not as a genuinely helpful tool against addiction.
The positives though are that, unlike vaping, quitting these guys wouldn't produce as much waste. I currently have two pretty heavy duty vapes sitting around my room, just e-waste. One of them I plan to gift to a friend who only vapes disposables (so i feel like breaking away from disposables is a good-ish tradeoff, idk? Still battling with the idea of gifting someone an addictive thing yk), the other is so old it barely works anymore. They're tech though, they have screens and buttons, it's like throwing away a very old phone or something, it feels wrong lol. This weird wooden device though, I'd probably feel a whole lot better binning/taking apart to process the recylable bits.
In terms of health effects, i think it's also important to not that comunstion is one of the biggest issues with smoking, including the steam from vapes. This is not combustion but i honestly wouldn't personally want to inhale essential oils either, these things are potent. A lot of pets shouldn't be exposed to essential oil fumes, i don't think repeated use is good for us either.
All in all, i do think this is better than vaping, it's definitely better than smoking cigarettes, but i think it's important to acknowledge that addiction doesn't work in slow pace a lot of the time. Keeping yourself in an in-between state, where you're not a smoker/vaper but not clean either is definitely a recipe for relapse. To a non smoker, this is entirely pointless but to a smoker this is multiple downgrades from what you're craving. It's both so far removed that it wouldn't even begin to scratch the itch and close enough to keep you reliant on related habits, behaviours and coping strategies at the same time. A lot of times with vaping, i found myself craving a cigarette AFTER having vaped extensively because it felt like it should scratch the itch of irritating my lungs and giving me a weird headach but it just didn't. This probably would be similar but a lot worse because at least vaping produces enough smoke to pretend to feel similar enough. It was harder to stop smoking when i tried while vaping than it was quitting both, is my point. To that I'll also add, this company has a vested interest in keeping you in quitting limbo, making a product with a high instance of helping people quit for good wouldn't be a profitable endeavour, since you would lose most of your customers over time.
Also i really hate these business models of like subscription services but physical? Like there's only one brand of these, only one place to get cartridges thingies from, only one company to give money to. This is a printers and ink type of thing and, as someone pointed out in the comments too, a Airup and flavour pods idea. They sell you literal air with a smell and claim benevolence
Jesus, a whole book about nothing 😂
I think your point of things that are natural not always being safe is very important. My younger sibling had a few seizures that were likely triggered by a particularly strong essential oil spray. It was the only common event linking her seizures when she recounted what happened right before them. The spray was disposed of immediately upon this discovery along with any other oils in our house and she hasn’t had any other incidents since in the past 6 years.
So the larger issue with these devices, which is often not discussed in depth, is the fact that the flavorant ingredients they contain are often not required to be reviewed by the FDA, because they're not food products. Sure the website says "Do your research, y'all!" but that doesn't really add any guarantee of the purity or safety of their ingredients. Aside from them saying "We pinky swear it's cool." 😄
Totally. Their website lists a toxicology report that they did, however the report a. did not use human subjects (it measured amount of essential oils within a pipette that was used to 'flush' a core with air) b. says that the Fum is not meant to be inhaled into the lungs which imo makes it a little unusable for people used to vaping and smoking. It also doesn't ever mention the safety for human consumption and from what I can find there's really no standard for how much Iu of an essential is 'safe' to have in the mouth. Also I can't find anywhere on their site that mentions the purity of their essential oils. Idk there's a lot of red flags here for me
The FDA is an organization run by moron bureaucrats. Look at the ingredients yourself and decide if you want them in your body.
@@ravenwilliams7636 how do they expect people to inhale flavored air without it going into their lungs? That's like waving a whole red curtain.
@@ravenwilliams7636 I looked into it once and what I read was about the safety of heating essential oils into vapor. Some oils break down into volitile compounds at certain temperatures (aromatherapy uses cold mist dispersers instead). Someone asked abt this in Fum's FAQ page and they replied that they pick oils that don't do this/have higher boiling temps and that their pen doesn't reach those temperatures. But I don't really trust that, several essential oil companies even have dedicated pages to say don't vape essential oils because of the heating safety risk, though that might be mostly to avoid liability lawsuits
No? They actively are having 3rd party studies done and posted on their website..
As someone who uses peppermint essential oils for migraines. Putting essential oils straight into my lungs scsresxme slightly.
Confession I once heard cinnamon oil helped with nausea so I put some in my humidifier diffuser thing and almost gassed myself out. I know it was stupid now and am not afraid to admit my mistake now simply because inhaling even diffused oils directly can be harmful
You have a stroke?
yeah i don't think anyone should promote products with ingesting essential oils. big yikes.
@@TSUNAMI-MAMIthey meant “scares me” not scsresxme lol
Dear lord, thank you. People are just willingly sucking that stuff into their lungs. You shouldn't be doing that but they're just calling it "natural" and fooling people.
i feel like if these kinds of products are going to hide behind the defense of "we're just a smoking cessation aid!" then they should have something on every single piece of marketing and packaging that says exactly that. "made for those looking to quit smoking; if you do not have an addiction to nicotine, we do not suggest using this." make sure sellers ask people in the checkout line, have a questionnaire pop up on the website, have ad-reads from influencers explicitly mention it.
but that would narrow their potential market demographic, so they would never voluntarily dissuade a consumer from using their product like that.
I wasn't entirely sure how much they were supposed to cost, but 98 dollars was WAY more than I expected.
thank you - really glad i didn't do this sponsorship lol
It’s the man. He always carries the thing
Something something legend never misses something
Omg I was not expecting to see you in the comments lol
the thing this man is carrying is NOT a füm
Not expecting you here
I tried it because of Philip Defranco, and I had a smoking issue. I no longer have a smoking issue, but that’s because I spent all the money for cigarettes on this god-awful product, and by the time I had stuck out the 30 days to get my money back, I never wanted to be put into that situation again. The only decent flavor was Mint, and it still sucked.
Edit: I can't respond to anyone, and I want to note it didn't help with the OTHER thing I smoke. If anything, THAT is worse because I am no longer smoking cigarettes.
Well, im glad you don't smoke anymore
@@dismurrart6648 it's just unfortunate that this isn't how a nearly $100 product was supposed to work. It “helped” with cigs, but the za? Unfortunately not. If anything… I might be smoking more weed to compensate.
@@ville__ but your existence is substantially inferior. 🤷
@@dismurrart6648 Cigs maybe, but I smoke more Za to compensate. Mfs deleted my comment that said 🌿.
@@ville__ Didn’t ask; your personality is probably inferior.
selling "flavored air" like farts don't already exist
@kyrareneesivertson
I bet huffing farts would be safer than whatever they put in these cartridges.
IT'S NOT EVEN NICOTINE OR THC???? WHAT IS THE POINT??????
@@the_newt_nestthe point is to not use nicotine or thc. It’s a “healthier” alternative
Wisdom
You are my favorite youtuber. You remind me of my oldest daughter who would be your age. You are comforting to me. That may seem weird but there is a level of sarcasm hand in hand with tryin to help people that was so her and you have that energy.❤
I am now subscribed purely based on what i have seen in this video, I have never seen you before this and your openness and Ability to talk about your personal beliefs in a mature way is really refreshing, I cant wait to see what else you have to offer
when i see "FUM" i read it as "Fuck U Mean???"
Apparently it means an essential oil diffuser you breathe through. That's a humongous NO THANKS
skee yee
They put an umlaut. So can’t read it as anything other than FOOM!
@@dhoffnunyeah, I hear essential oils and I’m out.
Breathing in any oil is really scary to me. After that big issue with people getting pneumonia from inhaling oils that's a nope from me!
My thoughts exactly! I feel like no one is talking about it. People are weird about essential oils and wants to put them on and in everything, but they definitely have limitations and I wouldn't want them in my lungs
From what i understand, oil in the lungs is extremely bad, because your lungs need a thin layer of water for oxygen to diffuse from the air into the lungs. Oil interferes with this layer. It also causes inflammation and potentially irreversible scaring in the lungs. Inhaling oil droplets overtime from bring exposed to paint, burning vegetable oil, and machinery has been linked to health problems.
@@MunkyDrag0n That is exactly the problem. The oil also is a great place for bacteria to accumulate and multiply leading to lipid pneumonia.
@@MunkyDrag0n not mention it's extremely difficult for the local immune system, namely macrophages, to clean up foreign material such as oil
better than nicotine. i mean the whole point is to help people get of cigerettes. a whole lot better than the alternatives. i believe.
It's crazy to see how much you've grown. I think I subbed to you when you had 40k subs! Congrats!
When I hear “flavored air”, I can’t help but imagine those small CO2 canisters from middle school when we raced cars that were shot off using canned air
So, it's basically an essential oil diffuser powered manually by each inhalation. Put some scented oils on a stick, stuff those in a hollow tube, and start breathing. I might be wrong, but that's exactly what this sounds like. Why the hell is it so expensive? There's no way it costs that much to produce.
That's what's giving me the most pause too
no seriously. this is exactly what i've been thinking since seeing this product for the first time. it's kinda wild that it's not made fun of and that people pay this much for it. I'm no stranger to buying arguably "useless" things because they bring me joy and an avid vaper. but it just sounds so absurd?? both fum and air up.
and I also have a theory: I would be super on board if the price and branding matched the functionality/value they bring, aka if they were affordable commodities people could access easily, just cause they crave a bit of flavor. However, if I start to imagine a world in which this would be true and you could buy a flavored air tube at the corner store for two dollars... would anyone actually buy and use those??? I can't see it. So if both scenarios sound a bit absurd, is there really a need for this to exist?
@@dopaminedrought395 I think it's so popular _because_ it's a commodity. All of the branding and advertisements (and even the price, to an extent) convey the idea that this device is a never before seen revolutionary product. But when you break it down, it's really simple and generic. It's basically a reed diffuser in a compact tube to help you breathe it in, but all the branding and ads sell you a one of a kind device carefully engineered by two average, down-to-earth Canadian guys dedicated to sustainability, using only the finest of natural materials and ingredients.
Yeah I 100% believe it’s just essential oils on a porous stick. The only thing that gives me a bit of a red flag is that you feel the smell in your chest, like maybe it’s a nit too strong?
I saw an individual who bought a pack of flavored toothpicks and shoved them in a straw to get the same effect
The problem is so many things aimed to help quit smoking just lead up to smoking for a bunch of non-smokers. Especially if this is aggressively marketed? Imagine how many people who’ve never thought of smoking end up starting or vaping.
i don’t think it would be as big of an issue based on price and accessibility. also while it may be habit forming, it doesn’t have the same addictive qualities of using nicotine.
yup vapes were initially marketed as a smoking alternative that's supposedly healthier and yet, most people that I know who vape never smoked cigarettes, they started with vaping.
Yeah especially because this is being advertised to channels with young audience. Which is weird. This should be marketed to older people who are trying to quit after 20es of smoking not teenagers/YA
As someone who has never smoked in their life and has no intention to do so (currently 34), why would a marketing scheme of all things convince me otherwise? I really don't think that's how it works (especially with firm non-smokers). I could see this maybe happening to younger folks with a bunch of FOMO (you know, because all other people do it too and you want to feel like you belong to the cool kids), but this kind of phenomenon sadly isn't limited to just vaping/smoking.
@@D0MiN0ChAnas a firmly nonsmoking adult, I have to admit the current iteration of vapes are more intriguing than anything ever has been before. Hell yeah I want to try those flavours that sound like slushies, and blow sick clouds like I see other people do... So I could imagine that the product in this video could lead me down the slippery slope that I've avoided all my life.
Havent watched one of your videos in like a year(maybe more) although they always come up in recomended, it makes me happy to see your continued growth
I'm so proud of you for being able to recognize a potential pitfall and actually taking proactive steps to prevent a setback or undesirable situation.
Well done, please never stop.
Mad respect for avoiding things when you're not in a social setting. I have an addictive personality too and I broke my rule of "don't use nicotine" and I've been addicted for ~3 years. It's not worth it at all. Stay strong
my biggest issue is the cost for this. all the stop smoking stuff is super expensive, and personally doesnt really hit the note it needs to for my habit. 100$ for JUST the tube is insane for me to try out and it to not work. 100% the product is not worth that much.
No like AWHILE back I almost tried this but it was the cost for me.
I saw an ad and thought it would be worth a try but couldn't justify the price if I ended up never using it.
I'm not even addicted I just like the prop, I like micro dosing but also just the asthetic of vaping or holding a joint and I thought I could use this between actual tokes.
My mother, when she quit, used lollipops to replace the physical habit to get rid of her chemical dependency, before toning down to get rid of the habit entirely.
They're cheaper alternatives to this product
THEY'RE $100 ?????
fr i looked on their site and the cheapest variant of the device + 3 cores (without shipping) in my currency would be the equivalent of what i spend on 2 months worth of cigarettes (meanwhile the cores would only last for 9 days total, optimistically)
Thank you so much for doing this review! I’ve been so curious about FUM since I vape and don’t want to but you don’t get much valuable information from the sponsored ads. This video was super helpful!
I’m so glad you made this video, I also haven’t seen anyone not promoting it. I want it because I’d love to have like the bacon pepper one to avoid snacking and I enjoy the fidget aspect. My hopes seem pretty ideal-scenario that’s why I’ve never gotten one. So hearing your thoughts is helpful
Not smoking alone is a great protective protocol-one of mine is I never gamble locally.
So you only do bets online?
I play poker once a year at deer camp.
Never bring more money than your willing to lose, because my uncle will clean you out.
@@DystopiaWithoutNeonsI think it means they only gamble on trips so that they are not tempted while at home
harm reduction tactics for sure!
One of my rules is never have more than 15 drinks in a night :)
Thank u for adding captions, very few creators 10x your size don't do it cause they say "Autocaptions are good enough" but it really does make a difference for people like me
this just showed me that swell has captions thank u sm
Fr I get so excited when I see good captioning it makes me feel like the creator is trying to be as accessible as possible
the captions are a good start! It's a shame there's two hands' worth of errors in a 17min video - which isn't many but it's enough to confuse!
I know nobody really cares, but I also know that hard-of-hearing and the deaf aren't going to appreciate losing some explanations entirely because one operative word in it is wrong. My grandmother hated that, especially with the number of errors that came up with '90s live television.
There can be a 5% inaccuracy rate and that can create a LOT of confusion, a lot more than 5% might give away.
Welcome to Austin Amanda!
Hope you have fun and hope you make a video on SXSW!
As someone who bought a fum bc of a sponsored post, it has genuinely helped me quit vaping. I’m 3 days clean, and still being able to do the motion of without inhaling anything is very helpful. Also I actually like a few of the flavors. It’s definitely way too expensive for what it is, and it does feel a bit exploitative, but it’s been very helpful in my experience.
Hey! I’m happy this product has helped you quit vaping. Any updates on how you’re feeling now?
In 6th grade (2012ish) I put a gummibear in an empty ballpoint pen case and sucked on it. This has the same energy
Natural plants?
Hey. What flavor is that?
Me: HEMLOCK
The best plant to smoke!
I’m more of a hogweed enjoyer
I like amanita soup with bowl on the side
How about poison ivy 😂
I'm ded....
Honestly great points all around. I've got some pretty severe ADHD and I took the sponsorship from FUM a couple months back. That being said, obviously I'm not sponsored right now. I agree with a lot of your points, I've got no clue if something like this would be a compelling aid for quitting smoking or vaping. However, it is a great fidget for me. I still fidget with mine like 4 months later. I haven't even had a core in it in 2 months, I just like playing around with it and inhaling the air through it. Even when I did the sponsored segment, I primarily focused on it being a good fidget for folks who feel the need to do so. I would love to see a study or testimonial on someone who's trying to quit cigarettes or vapes and if this does anything for them though
Yeeees please do the review for the AirUp products. I'm very interested in seeing what takes you have on it.
As someone with particularly bad ADHD I almost see the appeal of this one. Not as a vaping alternative but instead as a more immersive fidget toy.
Also, anytime something is marketed as a new safe alternative to something destructive, you kinda have to just wait five years and see if the science still supports that claim. And I feel like it rarely does.
literally was raised on anti smoking campaigns and info about how it “was seen by doctors for many years as safe” and yet somehow my generation still became willing Guinea pigs for vaping 😭🙏 I’m so glad I waited and will take that lesson into the future with me as absolute gospel, if your not 100% sure about it just wait especially if it involves something as valuable as your health.
The truth is we need to wait a 100 years to really see if it’s bad. It took us a long time to stop saying that smoking tobacco is good for you, we haven’t gotten over the hurdle of vapes yet. I just know that the plastic disposables are cancerous, I bet we’ll find out for sure in a few decades.
As someone else with adhd, I was also considering getting one but not using any of the flavor pods, just inhaling straight air through a tube.
@@rambbler you should just buy a metal straw
You can get a cigarette/vape-shaped metal straw that's designed to do this just with the shape, no liquid flavouring of any kind. They're usually on a necklace too; I got one for stimming purposes, as I've got a tendency to social smoke. There's a couple of brands and also the usual knockoffs on Amazon and the like; I would say it's definitely better that inhaling some random flavouring compound into your lungs.
as someone who lives in the netherlands WEED IS ADDICTIVE we see it so much here, my housemate is addicted to it, we have special program because it's addictive. so yeah hweed is addictive.
Weed sent my friends into psychosis im so over the weed is harmless bullshit
If you need it to get through your day, its an addiction. Of course this isnt a jab at people who are addicts, i just wish people would stop acting like weed isnt addictive
@@cyanidenightshadethe "if you need it to get though the day" idea only applies to recreational users IMO. many people need cannabis daily for medical reasons, myself included. I generally agree with your sentiment though.
@@emschlef if reality is unbearable for anyone that they need to smoke almost every day to get through it, then it's an addiction. anything can be an addiction in that manner
@@emschlefyeah here they are different types (i think it has to do it with how they produce it because not everyone is allowed to produce weed) but i agree with you people who use it medicinally are a different subject but they are often (if not always) under medical supervision so addiction is more preventable
Gifted one about a week and a half ago and she uses it along side her vape with a goal to quit vaping by the time she runs out of her last two little cartridges of vape things and in that time shes found herself already reaching for the fum more often than the vape and as of last weekend (about a week into using it) the first core still has plenty of flavor. Shes good about closing the vent completely when not in use i think that helps preserve the core and shes also someone who used to smoke cigarettes a decent amount who switched to vapes a year ago to try and quit but ended up vaping more than she smoked so this is turning out great for her.
First time watcher and new subscriber! I’m an avid smoker and vaper but this product did nothing for me. Appreciate you bringing it up in such a way that isn’t inflammatory or anything.
People who get defensive over someone stating that they don't partake in or enjoy something which the first person does are the same type of people who hear me say "I don't eat red meat" and immediately go into a anti-vegan spiral even though I haven't said anything about my reasons for not eating it, nor that I am vegan.
And, like, you only said you don't eat red meat. You could have just picked up that weird tick induced red meat allergy or something and still eat poultry
(Not saying you do, just could be true given that statement)
Is it cholesterol related?
i considered getting one of these to quit vaping until i saw how expensive they were. i ended up just buying a nicotine-free disposable and quitting through that lol
the entire time I was watching this video, all I could think was "why wouldn't people just buy a nicotine-free or cbd vape", because this product just seems so far removed from the actual experience of vaping
I used to have a vape and used 0 nic juice, just because it was fun and I liked the flavor. I just did it for a summer & stopped because nic or no nic, still can't be good for you (and I was 18 & that's when they changed the law to 21 for tobacco) but it seems way cheaper than this... especially if you have a reusable vape that you can just switch to lower nic/no nic juice
I'm someone who LOVES smelly things - candles, incense, perfume, etc., and I have a bit of an oral fixation as well (I used to chain chew gum I'm school just so I had something to do with my mouth 😅) so if there was some way to guarantee complete and absolute safety of something like this, I'd absolutely love it. But... there's no way inhaling something recreationally can be 100% safe.
I've never smoked nicotine on the regular. I'll hit friends vapes occasionally and I'll smoke blunts, but that's it. I do smoke weed daily though. I use a dry herb vape, which is basically a little convection oven with controllable temperature that bakes off the psychoactive compounds for you to inhale and leaves behind dry, browned plant material instead of ash. Its way healthier than smoking, because I'm not inhaling literal smoke from burning and inhaling everything thats in the plant (plus the butane from the lighter), but its still definitely not GOOD for me. I don't know why there's not the equivalent for tobacco, or if there is why its not more popular. From my minimal experience with blunts, I'd guess it's because the tar from burning tobacco is a lot thicker and nastier than from burning weed, so maintenance would be an absolute headache. Especially when compared to the ease of using a small, sleek, yummy smelling and tasting nicotine vape
this is offtopic but i like ur min suha pfp
@@slitheen3 you should take up baking and putting apple pies on your windowsill for the smell, then when the oral fixation kicks in you have a whole pie to eat
@@wysteria. I JUST SAW THIS AWKDJWJFJKWC omg thank you so much!!!!! suha's my kamioshi so it always makes me super happy when people recognize my pfp :')
TW: Eating Disorder
I'm really glad you mentioned the disordered eating. If this had been around when I was deep into my eating disorder back in the day (recovered now, thankfully), I absolutely would have been all over this. "I can have the flavour of eating without the calories and I can pretend that I ate? Sign me up!" I don't think there's any way to get data on this, but I'd be really interested to see what proportion of their actual users have ED's vs the proportion of their users trying to use this to quit smoking.
Also this just isn't close enough to the sensation of smoking to justify the price to me? Like, I wouldn't want to drop that much money on something that I didn't think would actually help me quit. There's flavour, sure, but there's no vapor, no nicotine, and nothing to exhale, as you pointed out. Plus, the cores only last A DAY? I feel like buying a progression of lower and lower nicotine vapes would have a higher chance of helping me quit, while taking far too long to catch up to the price sink of using the FUM regularly.
i absolutely have an addiction to weed because the world is physically too sharp without it. you're much smarter than I, Amanda.
Literally same, but also I LOVE your profile picture 🥲
Hello fellow addict, hoping the best for all of us 🙏
me when I got the "cope with weed" autism instead of the "good at school" autism: 🧍🏾♀️
@@meow.4972lmaoooo i’m with you there 😂😂
Didn't ask. My comment is far superior and has more value than anything this commenter has ever produced. Get over it@@ville__
Before I even watch... let me say: THANK YOU for talking about this! Their sponsored ads have bugged me a lot. A lot of the channels I watch that have taken them on are commentary channels that critique products similar to füm, OR they are mindfulness/meditation channels where it just felt contradictory to promote this product.
I'm glad you've posted this because I've been teetering on starting smoking/vaping again and was considering this to help prevent it. I'll have to continue my search to not go back to the nic sticks, but this feels... dumb haha. I agree on wanting to exhale something. The website is bullshit on giving actual product info from a buyers POV, not, IDK a blogger. It's good to have the whole doctor blurb and all, but I would have bought this thinking there was something to exhale and been pissed.
I can understand how this would work since on top of nicotine another big element of the addiction for many is the hand to mouth motion of smoking.
When my sister was quitting, nothing worked until she got a vape (not a gas station vape like Juul, a vape shop vape with the refillable tanks and bottles of eJuice). You can control how much nicotine is added to your juice when you have it mixed for you in the shop, so she was able to ween herself off little by little until she was down to 0mg. Then at that point it was weening herself off of the hand to mouth motion. She was eventually able to break that habit as well to be completely free.
So long winded reply short, I can see how this device would work for some people. As for myself, I'm neutral on it since I've never been a smoker... I can just see the sense in it.
Hismile toothpaste recently had an ad that said “tootpaste” and it hasn’t left my mind since.
I think it will be good for some people as the next step in quitting smoking (going from cigarettes, to vapes, to this). But i also see young people buying this either because of all the marketing or to like fit in with friends vaping, and then they end up just saying fuck it and vaping (and then potentially smoking)
That is absolutely what will happen. - A dirty, stinky vaper.
Yeah thats the big issue. Its insidious because it pretends its for cessation but look who they sponsor. Its meant to be a gateway
More likely to run the opposite direction. It'll act as a gateway to vaping, which can/will lead to smoking.
i don’t know if it will be that big of a pipeline from this to smoking. this is a little cost prohibitive, whereas a real vape can be accessed by bumming hits off friends and buying your own off someone else, which is probably much less than 60 bucks (i legitimately have never bought a vape, not sure).
I used vapes initially to try and quit smoking and I found that I just started vaping MORE than I smoked before.
when I swapped to vaping, it changed how I smoked. With smoking, I don’t smoke inside because I don’t want my home smelling like smoke. I always went outside, I washed my hands after (I worked with fabric which absorbs smells). So to smoke, I’d have to go outside and put shoes on etc. And when the cigarette was done I was done. But with vaping, suddenly I could smoke inside AND I would be taking a drag every few minutes over the span of hours because there was no set end point.
Now, it did help me break off of nicotine because I sought out non-nicotine vape liquid. But it didn’t help with the craving for the motions of smoking, of taking a drag etc.
i do OT for autism and ADHD and sucking/blowing air is a really good regulator for anxiety using the proprioceptive sensory system as taking in deep breathes through a small tube actually uses a lot of movement muscles (and it helps those who struggled with breathing exercises too to give them more of a guided tool to do breathing exercises with)
My concern is that this product is only what? 6 years old? Any data they do have will not be thorough enough to really know if it actually stops smoking, especially after 5+ years. Plus they use essential oils? Which can be dangerous. Idk, I'd prefer something like this go through a more rigorous testing before being released to the market
I wish there were more understanding of addiction than physically addicted; because people can have the kind of drug addiction that maybe a gambler or a corn 🙃 addict might, behavioral, psychological addiction, not chemical addiction; you are So Accurate with “maybe it isn’t addictive for you, but”
Personally as someone who quit cigarette smoking and did use vapes for a time when I was trying to quit but then when I finally quit, I did it cold turkey (I use cannabis medically), I found that replacing one thing with the other was kind of just a substitution behavior and going cold turkey was just a better thing ultimately because vaping became more of a crutch for me, especially because it was easier to do it than to smoke. Also, because of how caustic essential oils can be, the idea of inhaling them so directly in a way that they are not vaporized feels sketchy to me personally.
I did use FUM to quit smoking(been smoking since the mid 90's) and I'm just under 5 months without smoking. What I found was the FUM was good for breaking habits surrounding the non nicotine part of the addiction but for the physical nicotine addiction it was still a "cold turkey" situation but the FUM did help. The sunk cost of buying it also helped, the cheapskate belligerent side of me wasn't going to fail the nicotine addiction part after I'd spent so much.
I rarely use it now so in terms of how safe it is etc. I'd say for me it was better because it was short term use vs what would probably have been continued longer term smoking.
Im just so glad you're staying the same with all the new growth
Thank you for this video, I've smoked for more than a decade and only recently switched to a vape to help reduce further use, which is working. I always see this advertised but wary if it actually works and if the essential oils used are safe
I'm a cannabis vaper who wanted to cut back. I liked the overall concept of this, having something that gives the sensation of smoking without smoking. The price point of Fum is what put me off. I opted for a 0% nicotine vape instead.
@@ville__me too!
This is giving a fancy Vick’s Vapoinhaler.
i simply fw your thinking. i enjoy your thought processes
I respect your stance on this. More people should do this. BTW- I don't feel judged even though I quit smoking by switching to e-cigarettes. I think these people are trying to do a good thing and if I was still a smoker I might consider trying this. The price seems a little steep for such a device and it would take near desperation for me to give in to it. I'm so cheap because I'm retired. I like how you approached this video and how you give the information so I am now a subscriber. You're very funny. If I didn't dislike flying so much I might have gotten one of these to use on the plane. In the long run if it's successful it's much cheaper than smoking.
legit looking forward to the air up roast but omg... 7:00 could us ND fidgeters ever get a video (or a Short) on this silent fidget toy line up?! currently only using my fidget ring at work since it's the quietest piece i have and i'd love actual variety. 🥺👉👈 extra incentive could be if the actual fidget brands are down with giving you affiliate links/codes too! can't speak for everyone obv but def feel like your audience demo would be compatible for an official swell fidget review? either way, good luck on curating your silent collection amanda!!
// also hope that ppl stop being judgemental when youtubers fidget off-camera :(( hope the new fidget toy set up helps you stay comfy while giving commentary in the future! (ngl i think this comment is the most amount of times i've used "fidget" ever XD) //
YES I need the deets
I think the tangles are almost as quiet as my fidget ring is as long as I’m careful not to click them together and fidget spinner’s are also pretty nearly completely quiet, I would also be interested in seeing her review all of her quiet fidget toys because I don’t work myself so I don’t need quite fidgets for that reason but I often have bad migraines that makes any unnecessary sound extremely painful and I would appreciate being able to have more variety in my fidgets on those days.
Independent fidget creator here, I have some near silent ones that aren't just rings (rings are just the only ones that really sell so I don't really make many of the others.) If you wanna look up Kinetic Color Foundry, check out the fiddle sheets. Those of the ones I use the most.
(pardon the self promotion, feel free to ignore)
I would SO watch this video!! If you’re looking for quiet fidgets specifically, there’s a cute small business called All Things Sensory Shop that rates all their fidgets’ noise levels and has demo videos so you can hear them in action. Highly recommend, I have a ton of stuff from that shop
I have been a fidgeter practically since I was born and my go to has always been blutack. Obviously you have to “change it out” when it gets icky .. but it’s cheap, discrete and silent. Just don’t put it in your pocket, it will not come out of clothes once it’s stuck 😅
While this is probably a useful tool for people who are looking to quit smoking/vaping, I HATE when companies say "no chemicals, all natural." The natural flavors they're using are chemicals, people can be sensitive to natural flavors, ESPECIALLY ESSENTIAL OILS, and regardless you're still inhaling those flavonoids into your lungs. I know that nicotine is the main chemical that the target demographic is trying to quit, but the marketing just feels misinformed. Also the study they cite about exposure to essential oils may not be taking inhalation exposure into account. Full disclosure, I vape nicotine, and I try to be informed as possible about these products, but there honestly aren't a lot of studies out there yet for long-term exposure for flavored inhalation products. Great video, Swell!
Edit: the assumption that FUM is safer than a nicotine or THC based vape, or an unflavored vape that someone is using to try to quit, doesn't seem rooted in actual science enough for me to think this is anything beyond marketing. Expensive marketing, at that.
Füm is not a vaporiser, it's a diffuser. That's a HUGE difference in the dosing.
There’s actually already a govt study that’s warning about inhaling essential oils that specifically talks about fum and “safer” cigarette/vape alternatives
Yep! I’m allergic to/have reactions to most essential oils, I will never understand people insisting that because it’s natural, it can’t cause a problem!
@@Anna-dd4rh vaporised or diffused?
@@VicvicW they specifically use the terminology “inhalable devices” and discuss that whether the essential oils are vaporized or “passively diffused,” like fum, they can still make you very sick and cause allergic reactions around the mouth with continued use
Great video, I saw another creator do a thing about air up today and I'm shocked. Air up and fum are the new Established Titles sponsor!
Thank you for explaining what the favoured air thing meant cause I’ve been so confused on what that even means every time I see an ad.
As someone who had a very serious eating disorder and often used similar products- for me it had the opposite reaction and kept me from feeling too hungry. How much of that was just purely the eating disorder and how much was the actual product I can't say. The kind I used was manufactured as 'aromatherapy' though and had onetime use products with things like caffeine or melatonin depending on what you wanted.
I'm better now, but getting tons of Füme sponsor ads does bring back memories (and I would have totally gone for the maple/black pepper myself)
*grabs one of the reeds out of one of those oil diffuser things people put in their houses and starts waving it around like I’m an old timey Hollywood actress with one of those really long cigarette holders
As a recovering addict who's cali sober , love the note about not smoking alone, once you use alone it becomes habit
As someone who had previously smoked cigarettes switched to vaping, and have been thinking about quitting vaping. Not sure if this helped sell me on it, but im glad you went in depth on it instead of just doing a sponsored ad.
I bought a fum a few months ago to help quit vaping, i found it really helpful. The peppered flavors and the more minty flavors worked the best for me, i think because it was a stronger taste/flavor it hit my lungs harder and had a leftover "taste" and cooling from the mint that was the closest to resembling vape/smoke. Unfortunately i haven't quit yet do to some serious family problems that happened, making me run back to the nicotine lol. i will definitely be using Fum again to quit when im ready because it was the closest to quitting I've gotten since i started 10+ years ago when vapes first started becoming a thing, and i would recommend it to anyone struggling. Who knows about the chemicals in it, but for me not needing nicotine needs to come first in beating the addiction.
This. I also have a FUM. It's not perfect, I also went back to vaping at first (also due to a high-stress situation). But I started the FUM again and now it's been 3 weeks with no vaping. You're right, it's not perfect but it's the most successful I've been yet.
30 years smoker, used FUM, haven't smoked since. It worked for me ...
i was going "not bad, doesn't sound that bad" and then their research page said the cores were flavored with essential oils and i winced. essential oils are nnnnnnot good for your lungs in any concentration.
As a 20 year smoker, then vaper, and current Zyn user, I can attest: the hand-to-mouth ritual is almost more addictive than the nicotine. Or at least it persists after the physical withdrawl is over. This could definitely be helpful, and I looked into similar items a while back and the only problem I had with it was how expensive it was! It seemed a little ridiculous for something that contains nothing but essential oils.
I’ve seen a lot of ads for this and when I was vaping I wanted it to try. It’s lack of affordability was a concern, but with budgeting it was possible. I’m glad I waited because the cores quick turnaround is a point of contention for me and a possible future purchase. Thanks for the review. ❤
Also for it to be so expensive for Canadians as a Canadian company doesn’t sit well with me. I know our dollar is shit, but ‘enjoyable’ surely isn’t affordable 😂
Ive considered these because of my adhd and my inability to cut down on sugar, which isnt good for me. I feel like having something to keep my hands occupied will help with my constant spacing and playing games for hours and having sweet flavors that arent full of sugar and calories can help cut my cravings but for the price that theyre selling it it's a bit much. I cant justify the cost to myself.
See I am pretty similar, but add in smoking weed as a vice too filling time. I don't think it will replace the smoking for me bc the smoke cooking it is a big part of it, which sounds dumb but 🤷
On the sweet flavors part, have you tried flavored water? Like pineapple waterloo or propel?
Two recommendations 1. Chew toy stims! They make chew toys for adults. 2. Tazo teas! If you want something sweet with no sugar tazo wild sweet orange and tazo passion are incredibly delicious!!
I'm in a similar boat and chewing gum has helped me a bit. Chewlery (or chewable jewelry for adults) is also a good one
I have a similar problem, but most grocery stores near me have little squirt bottles of water flavoring that are sugar free but they’re still sweet. You’d have to check the ingredients lists to see if you wanna see how “healthy” of an alternative they can be.
My favorite flavor is orange, and just a little bit does make water taste similar to orange soda, so the little bottles last quite a while even if you use it every day. The stores near me have store brand ones that are 99 cents, and then branded ones aren’t much more than that.
Also, I have a water bottle with a little “straw” thing for a mouthpiece that I can chew because it’s rubber. The other comments recommending gum and tea are also really good because I also use sugar free gum a lot, and while I don’t drink tea much, Tazo tea is very good. I hope you’re able to find something that works for you!
As someone who is currently about three weeks off of nicotine I can promise that this would make me absolutely desperate for a real vape. I recommend aggressive distraction and a couple people to help keep your mind off or it not necessarily to police you but to do other things with while the cravings are the worst
yeah i used to smoke and i definitely feel like id be frustrated and unsatisfied by the lack of smoke😭and then id be thinking more about the real thing😅i feel like i definitely found the smoke very fun to look at haha
I absolutely agree, this would’ve made me want to just vape again especially because of the lack of air coming out of it. For me I don’t even care about the nicotine but I loved the feeling of lifting something up and then seeing the smoke, which the smoke itself is actually a cue that further reinforces the habit of smoking (just some fun neuroscience lol). I legit was only able to quit because I threw away my vape the day before my boyfriend and I met. Then I was with him pretty much 24/7 so I had no chance to either get a vape or to vape. Having someone with me who could distract me was the best help since I had been trying unsuccessfully to quit for like six months before that. I have broken that non-vaping streak because one of my friends has a vape at our wine nights but I at least don’t have one in my apartment anymore since I have no self control with them.
Wild was just thinking about this product wanted hear someone not paid by them to talk about it great video as always
In an era of hyper consumption and constant advertising your honesty is so incredibly refreshing
Nice, was just looking for a review the other day out of curiosity after that air up one blew up and they were sponsoring everyone lol
The telephone cord style hair ties can be great relatively quiet fidgets + easy to keep on you. I twist it so it’s two loops and then sort of feed one into the other over and over but there are a ton of ways to fidget with them.
You know how to have a good time
Hey there! So, I got one because I didn't feel like I was addicted to Nicotine, but the habit of inhaling. I wanted something that would duplicate, but still provide enough separation from vaping, no smoke. It worked for me and fairly quickly. It is nice when I get stressed and consider buying a vape... hits the spot. I thought the pepper one sounded repulsive, but it ended up being my favorite so surprised about that. Pepper and mint last really long, like over a week. The other ones don't last at all. The nastiest flavor is the cranberry one. I wanted to quit and figured the steep price for the starter was cheap compared to continuing my vape habit. Also, I could feel my chest rattling from vaping, so I needed to quit and was willing to give anything a try. I got a buy 1 get one deal too at New Year's. I've barely made it through my cores and lost the urge. Sorry this is disjointed.
Almost bought one the other day. Thanks for the honest review!
tbh i always appreciate how youre willing to do non-biased reviews like this. def sending this video to some of my friends who smoke/vape (im also in SoCal) so they know what they're getting into if they get this