Buying Your First Vape: Mistakes To Avoid, Things To Focus On…

Buying your first vape doesn’t have to be stressful or confusing.This guide covers everything you need to know based on my 15+ years reviewing and testing vaping products — no fluff, just actionable buying advice.

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TL;DR 🧠🚭

New to vaping? Skip the confusion. Grab a pod vape; they’re easy to use, work best with Nic Salts, and give you a smooth, cigarette-style hit.

Done. ✅

Buying your first vape doesn’t have to be stressful or confusing. For most new users, a pod vape will be the ideal option because they’re refillable, compact, and very easy to use. 

Pod vapes run on Nic Salts juice. This is a special kind of vape juice that was developed specifically for compact, MTL devices like pod vapes.

It delivers big flavor and higher amounts of nicotine without the harshness of traditional, freebase nicotine. 

That means you get the kind of hit you’d normally get from a cigarette, just without all the nasty carcinogens.

Pod vapes draw just like a cigarette (this is called mouth-to-lung vaping), whereas higher-performance sub ohm vapes draw more like an inhaler (direct to lung). 

What’s The Best First Vape? 

There’s a million and one different pod vapes and disposable vapes available (although disposables are now banned from sale in the UK).

Most come with features and gimmicks you don’t need. 

The market is saturated and brands are always on the lookout for ways to differentiate their products. 

You don’t need to worry about this.

After testing thousands of vape products over the last 15 years, the things that make a vape worth buying are actually very simple. 

When choosing your first vape, it needs three things: 1) it needs to be easy to use, 2) it needs to have coils that last for weeks at a time, and 3) it needs decent battery life. 

What Makes A Good Vape? 

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Now, most pod vapes on the market will do 2 of these three factors. But there is one pod vape that excels in all areas, delivers market-leading performance, and runs coils (pods) that last for 2-3 weeks between changes. 

That vape is the Vaporesso XROS 5.

It is the teams’ current go-to vape, it’s what we all use in the office, and the reason is simple: it’s the best and most reliable pod vape on the market right now. 

  • The coils last for weeks between changes. 
  • It’s smart and compact, making it ideal for both men and women. 

Flavor For Days, Coils That Last For Weeks

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The flavor is incredible; nothing else on the market, save for OXVA’s higher end pod vapes, can match the Vaporesso XROS 5’s performance in this context. 

And the battery life is superb;  it’ll get you through a full day of vaping with ease. If you’re a heavy user, you might need a quick top-up in the late-afternoon.

But that’s par for the course with any pod system. 

As of right now, there isn’t a better, more reliable and consistent pod vape on the market. If you want the best possible flavor and performance (and you want to spend less on pod replacements), the XROS 5 is the only game in town right now. 

What’s The Best Vape Juice For The XROS 5?

And when it comes to vape juice, you’ll want Nic Salts vape juice for it. Not sure what flavor to get? Try our Bar Salts Sampler Pack; it’s the five most popular flavors from our store (based on 80,000+ sales) bundled together. 

Or, if you know what flavor you like, take a look at our Bar Salts Longfills and ditch the annoying 10ml bottles for a 120ml bottle of bar salts nic juice – just choose your flavor and strength, and we’ll ship it out to you. 

And if you need anything else or have more questions, just drop us a line (via our newsletter community) and we’ll do our best to answer any questions you might have.