If you follow the vaping industry at all – either because you already vape or because you’re thinking about making the switch – you’re undoubtedly familiar with disposable vapes. If you already vape, you’ve noticed how popular disposable vapes are because they’re consuming more display space than ever at your favorite vape shop. If you don’t vape yet, you’re aware of disposable vapes because most of your friends who vape probably use them.
Regardless of how you first became aware of disposable vapes, though, a question is naturally going to arise once you notice the popularity of the devices: Why do so many people buy disposable vapes when there’s such a wide variety of other vaping devices available as well? Is there something special about disposable e-cigarettes that makes them better than other vapes, or are they just the products that happen to be fashionable right now?
Whether you’re a long-term vaper or are simply thinking about switching, it’ll be very worthwhile for you to have an understanding of why so many people buy disposable vapes and why you might want to consider joining them. These are the reasons why disposable e-cigarettes have become so popular over the past few years.
Disposable Vapes Have Evolved to Provide Greater Satisfaction Than Ever
One of the reasons why so many people are buying disposable vapes these days is because they’ve finally become approximately equal to tobacco cigarettes on a nicotine-per-puff basis. For the first several years in which e-cigarettes were on the market, disposable vapes were actually some of the least satisfying devices you could buy because they produced very little vapor and because their e-liquid didn’t contain much nicotine.
Since then, disposable vapes have evolved in two important ways.
- They’ve grown slightly larger. In the past, most disposable vapes looked like tobacco cigarettes. These days, though, most devices have adopted a bar-shaped design that allows them to have slightly larger battery cells and atomizer coils. The increased vapor production makes an enormous difference.
- They now use nicotine salt e-liquid instead of the freebase nicotine e-liquid that all disposable e-cigarettes used in the past. Compared to freebase nicotine, nicotine salt is much smoother at high nicotine strengths. Because of that switch, the average disposable vape now has a nicotine strength of 50 mg/ml. Before nicotine salt e-liquid, the most common nicotine strength for disposable vapes was 18 mg/ml.
With those two important evolutionary steps having been accomplished, today’s disposable vapes can easily function as one-to-one replacements for tobacco cigarettes.
The World’s Most Popular E-Liquids Are Now Available in Disposable Vapes
Nicotine is the reason why people initially switch from smoking to vaping. Specifically, vaping presents the opportunity to get your nicotine fix in a way that’s completely satisfying but doesn’t require you to inhale smoke. That’s a huge win – but the thing that keeps you interested in vaping and helps you avoid the temptation to revert to smoking is the fact that vape juice is available in a huge variety of different flavors that would never be possible with tobacco products. Even if flavored cigarettes were still legal – which they aren’t in most regions – they’d still taste like cigarettes.
Until recently, though, disposable vapes really got the short end of the stick in the flavor department. They weren’t particularly profitable for companies to manufacture, so few brands offered them in flavors other than tobacco and menthol. Because disposable vapes have become so much more popular, though – and we have the two technical developments mentioned above to thank for that – companies are now offering them in a huge variety of different flavors.
One of the most important developments in the flavor department is the fact that many of the most popular e-liquid companies in the world are now providing vape juice to the manufacturers of disposable vapes. Buying disposable e-cigarettes these days doesn’t just mean that you’ll enjoy a large flavor selection. It also means you’ll enjoy the exact same vape juices that are ordinarily sold by the bottle.
Disposable Vapes Have Become Extremely Affordable
Another factor that has helped to make disposable vapes so popular is the fact that they’re now significantly more affordable than they were in the early years of vaping. There was a time when buying a disposable e-cigarette would require you to pay about the same amount that you’d have paid for two packs of tobacco cigarettes. That’s obviously not an easy sell.
Today, though, you can conceivably use disposable e-cigarettes for as little as $1.00 per day. That’s partially because the manufacturers of the devices have implemented automation technologies and greatly reduced their production costs. It’s also because today’s disposable vapes come with a lot more e-liquid per device, and that can make it possible to use one device for about as long as it would take to smoke an entire carton of cigarettes. Small, low-capacity disposable vapes are still available for those who want them, of course, but the new high-capacity devices are ideal for people who want to vape as cheaply as possible.
Disposable Vapes Now Feature Some Exciting New Technologies
The final reason why so many people are buying disposable vapes these days is because their technology is advancing and improving at a faster rate than in almost any other area of the vaping industry. Companies know that people want disposable vapes, so more manufacturers are producing them than ever. That’s led to a huge product supply, so differentiation has become important. Therefore, the manufacturers are focusing their R&D efforts on making disposable e-cigarettes as good as they can possibly be.
These are some of the exciting new technologies that you’ll enjoy when you buy a modern disposable vape.
- Disposable vapes with higher e-liquid capacities are appearing, but consumers still want the devices to be as small as they can possibly be. Instead of installing enormous batteries in the devices, manufacturers are using rechargeable batteries. The fact that you can top up the battery multiple times ensures that you’ll be able to use every drop of e-liquid before it’s finally time for a new device.
- Today’s disposable vapes also taste better than ever, and that’s not just because the e-liquids themselves are better. It’s also because disposable vapes are now using some of the technologies that were previously only available in high-end vape tanks. Those technologies include mesh coils for increased vapor production and ceramic wicks for improved heat resistance. Those technologies help to ensure that your last puff from a disposable vape will taste just as good as the first.