How do you choose your e-cigarette?

Increasingly widespread, the e-cigarette comes in many forms, and they are not all equivalent. Some suit beginners better than heavy smokers. Here are a few pointers on how to choose your e-cigarette.

For beginners

Many smokers turn to the e-cigarette to cut down on, or stop, their cigarette consumption. Devices are not all alike, however, and some are hardly recommended for taking up vaping. That is the case with the Cigalike, even though it looks remarkably like a conventional cigarette.

To start vaping, the Hilo or any other new-generation e-cigarette is a more usual choice.

What should you take into account when choosing an electronic cigarette?

In practice it has more to do with the smoker’s aims and consumption than with the specifications of the device. What matters is knowing how many cigarettes you smoke, in order to find suitable e-liquids, and what your purpose is in switching to the e-cigarette: giving up tobacco, cutting down, a limited budget, and so on.

The answers to those questions then provide much of the information needed to settle on a model and on the matching e-liquids.

The different electronic cigarettes

There are several formats of electronic cigarette:

• Cigalikes, known as first-generation e-cigarettes, delivering little nicotine and little flavour.
• Tubes: compact and easy to use, they are well suited to starting out. The batteries recharge by USB and the clearomiser takes any type of e-liquid. The coils need changing regularly.
• Boxes, larger than tubes, since they run on cells or on a large battery. They allow longer vaping sessions and higher power settings.
• Pods are the new-generation e-cigarettes. Small in size, they suit CBD or nicotine salts as well as conventional e-liquids. Effective without a large battery, they come in refillable versions and with prefilled cartridges.

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