A woman who says she wished to quit smoking is now helping others be aware of a mistake she took on that has turned her life upside down.

The woman explained how she always heard that the best way to quit smoking was to switch to vaping but little did she know that the hazards of the latter were equally bad.

Sources from local media outlets claim 35-year-old Lucy Turchin turned to vape as the ‘healthy’ alternative. But today, she regrets her decision because she has been diagnosed by doctors as suffering from a deadly lung disease.

She claims to have continued to vape for a span of five months and during this time, the effects really did take a toll on her body. They damaged her lungs to a severe extent and it has forced her to drop out of her master’s degree.

Lucy adds how she cannot leave her home without a tank full of oxygen but that’s not all. The biggest tragedy of her life is how she has been forced to call off her wedding to the man of her dreams and the love of her life because of her debilitating condition.

Doctors have long advocated against the use of vaping and how it cannot be deemed safe as studies show the serious adverse effects of such an endeavor.

Lucy says her nightmare ordeal is just too devastating for obvious reasons. And does not want others to go through the mental and physical trauma that she’s going through because of her poor decision-making.

Hence, she’s raising more and more awareness about this ordeal and wants people to know that it’s really time to wake up before it’s too late.

“I can barely go out without that fear of debilitating pain of my pneumonitis. Vaping was never worth it, nothing is, this is bad”- she cried.