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Thinking of switching from cigarettes to vaping? We don’t blame you, it’s often referred to as an alternative by medical organisations such as the NHS as a tool to quit smoking for good. This is because it can improve your health, your mind, your sense of smell and taste, as well as prove cheaper in the long run. But before people switch, a common question that gets asked is about e-liquids. Mainly, how long does vape juice last? What is its expiration date, how can you tell when it ‘goes off’ and what’s the general amount of time e-liquid will...

Vaping with a pre-filled cartridge may be one of the easiest ways to get the nicotine fix you need, as they already contain the coil and vape juice! All you need to do is screw in the accessory and away you go. Thin in nature, lightweight and with a cylinder shape, they are packed with flavour plus provide a strong throat hit to mimic the sensation of smoking. A cartridge vape is a go-to for so many beginners due to these factors and often provides slightly less e-liquid capacity between 1.5ml and 1.9ml. Because of their dimensions, and how the...

The Pros and Cons of Vaping in the UK: Is It Safe and Effective? When Public Health England released a bombshell report in 2015 concluding that vaping was about 95 percent safer than smoking, there was no way to stop the flood of new vapers that ensued. Although vaping has only been around for a little over a decade, there are now more than 3 million people who vape in the United Kingdom. The NHS has helped to continue this trend by actively encouraging people to make the switch to vaping if they can’t quit smoking by other means.  Although experts’ early conclusions about vaping...

Even if you’re an experienced vaper who bought your first vape kit long ago, you may have never paused to think about what’s happening when you vape and what effects it has on your body. After all, cigarettes are so simple that you probably never thought too much about how they worked when you sat down to smoke.   A vaping device, however, is much more complex than a cigarette. When you combine the complexity of vaping hardware with the equally complex pharmacokinetics of nicotine, there’s quite a lot happening inside and outside your body when you vape.   So, how does vaping work...