Do Google Ads hurt SEO ranking once we stop using it?

[Ethan Thompson]

One of our friends switched to SEO and they said they saw a drop of rankings in money keywords once they stopped using Google Ads.
Does anyone have a similar experience?

 

[Nomad]

When you run ads on Google search, you will be ranked for paid search and you are likely to get paid organic traffic. However, running google ads else where has nothing to do with your SEO. When you stop ads, it is natural for you to stop receiving traffic but advertising is different form SEO