Meet the Albertan Alchemists
Brendan Papineau and Bradley Ritcey have been
friends since childhood. Growing up in the same neighborhood and sharing the same circle of friends, they were always exploring different jobs and opportunities to make a living. Eventually, they settled into
journeyman painter and journeyman millwright roles, respectively.
Both were plagued by a crippling addiction to smoking cigarettes for about 16 years. They tried all the methods: patches, gums, pills, sprays, pistachios, willpower—you name it. Yet, the power of smoking proved to be too great until they discovered vaping. After a few attempts, they successfully left cigarettes in the past.