As holiday gift-giving season rolls around once more, you might be thinking about e cigs. You could be hoping to add them to your list or planning to purchase them for a smoker you care about. When the time comes to choose a style and a brand, how are you going to determine which brand is best? One of America’s top brands is Green Smoke. Let’s see how they stack up against other major e cig names.
How Many Starter Kits
With their EX Series kits and Classics, V2 Cigs has 10 kits for new vapers. Halo can offer just two: the G6 and Triton, but in various colors, although the Triton is a second-level vaping tool. It’s still easy to use though. Cigavette has 5 kits, Nuvocig appears to sell hundreds, and White Cloud offers 5 bundles too. At VaporFi, there is only one beginners’ kit plus several other starter bundles at the not-so-novice level and others for advanced vapers totaling 1 kit each for 10 styles of e cig. Green Smoke’s 5 kits cover a similar scope with a 1, 2, 3, and 4-battery kits plus a Couples Kit.
Their price range is $18.49 to $129.60. The first of these covers their Essentials Kit: one battery, two cartridges, and a USB charger. Their most expensive is for Love Birds with 6 batteries, 20 cartridges, 2 AC adapters with 2 USB chargers plus 2 car chargers and 2 cases.
Recently, Green Smoke reduced the prices of their starter kits so they are more in line with affordably priced, competitive products. They have not added some of the elements you see at V2, however, like a power cig and a portable charging case. Green Smoke has not taken a leaf out of Halo’s or Nuvocig’s books by marketing advanced batteries. Starter kits contain regular mini cig cells and pre-filled cartomizers.
Cartomizers at Green Smoke
Not only do they only sell cigalikes, but there aren’t even blanks at Green Smoke. If you happened to like a flavor sold by one of the other e cig vendors listed above (most of them carry their own brand of e liquid) or some other independent brand, that’s tough.You’re going to be attaching Green Smoke cartridges to the end of a Green Smoke battery until you give up vaping or give up on Green Smoke. They only sell 8 flavors too: clove, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, menthol, and 3 types of tobacco. Cartridges are priced $12.99 for a package of 5 but volume pricing is in effect.
VaporFi and Cigavette can’t say anything: their selection of flavors in the pre-filled format is even smaller. V2 Cigs, Halo, and White Cloud can be proud of their offerings. But VaporFi, V2 Cigs, and Halo all carry e liquid and blank cartomizers. If you wanted to replace your e juice the cheaper way, it’s not possible at Green Smoke.Then again, if you have to use pre-fills, the word is these are some of the best out there. You might not even care that there are just 8 Green Smoke flavors: one or two were good enough when you smoked. You’ve gained some choices at Green Smoke, and exceptionally fresh ones too. Green Smoke triple-seals their cartridges so they arrive fresh every time. By implication, some of the other firms are guilty of sending out cartridges that are close to or past their sell-by date.
Disposables
You can buy disposable e cigs at Green Smoke. These are often listed with starter kits if you’re looking for them on various e cig websites: many smokers use these as their “starters” although they aren’t rechargeable or refillable.Green Smoke examples come in packages of 6 for just about $60: $10 each. That’s roughly standard for this market and you could buy cheaper items from all-purpose vape stores, but for brand names it’s not an unexpected price.
Halo and VaporFi don’t carry them at all. V2 Cigs has their own and Zig Zag disposables, slightly cheaper, but also in bundles (not sold individually). White Cloud’s menu of “Fling” disposable e cigs is the most versatile.Instead of just menthol and tobacco e cigs in one nicotine strength, you can choose any of their flavors and several strengths plus two sizes of disposable and individuals or bundles.Green Smoke disposable e cigs come in menthol or tobacco and 1.8% nicotine. That’s not much choice, but then again, these are starters and you don’t need to venture into the exotic yet. Cigavette sells e hookahs in 6 exotic flavors, if that’s what you want.
Batteries
Most e cig companies sell standard white, black, and possibly steel-colored batteries, if they offer any choice at all. Halo provides a choice of 9 G6 colors; Nuvocig has bling batteries (for their slim cigs), but VaporFi doesn’t get into colors until the Pro. With V2, you’ve got 5 colors (including pink and blue) or the EX series which is just a large mini cig in 5 shades or patterns.
Green Smoke has the designer series named after cities around the country. They aren’t exotic but interesting and their colors are muted, not shiny. But if you feel patriotic, they are certainly unique.
Simplicity
One good thing about Green Smoke you can’t overlook is the simplicity they offer. They lack choice, that’s true, but sometimes choice confuses matters. Their quality and customer service are hard to beat too. Reviews on various websites (including their own) show there are good reasons Green Smoke excels in this industry.
