Help me choose
Five quick questions. One honest recommendation. No pushy salesman.
Walking into a vape shop (or onto a vape website) for the first time is genuinely baffling. There are pods, mods, shortfills, nic salts, sub-ohm, MTL, DTL, and a thousand acronyms nobody bothers to explain. This page does the explaining for you. Answer five honest questions and we will point you at the kit that fits how you actually want to vape — with a real product link, not a sales pitch.
If at the end you think we have got it wrong, the answers will tell you why we picked what we picked, and there is a link to the contact page so you can ask us properly. We would rather you bought the right thing than the most expensive thing.
Question 1 of 5
Are you currently a smoker, an ex-smoker, or already a vaper?
Question 2 of 5
What kind of smoker were you (or are you)?
This helps us match the throat hit and nicotine strength.
Question 3 of 5
How do you want it to feel when you inhale?
Mouth-to-lung (MTL) is the cigarette-like draw. Direct-to-lung (DTL) is the big-cloud draw.
Question 4 of 5
How much fiddling do you want to do?
Question 5 of 5
What is your budget for the kit itself?
E-liquid and coils are extra — this is just for the device.
Your recommendation
A bit of jargon, decoded
MTL (mouth-to-lung): the tight, cigarette-like draw. Best for switchers. Lower power, higher nicotine, smaller clouds.
DTL / sub-ohm (direct-to-lung): the big-clouds draw. Higher power, lower nicotine, much bigger vapour.
Nic salts: a smoother form of nicotine that lets you have higher strengths (10mg, 20mg) without harshness. Best for pod systems and switchers.
Shortfill: a larger bottle of nicotine-free e-liquid with space at the top for you to add nicotine shots. UK regulations limit nicotine bottles to 10ml, so shortfills are the workaround.