Hayati Pro

Two to pick from. 20mg (2%) is the firm hit that matches the disposable bars and suits anyone fresh off a heavier smoking habit. 10mg (1%) is the gentler option, good once the worst of the cravings pass or if you vape steadily through the day and find 20mg too much.

Salt nicotine goes down smooth even at 20mg, so it satisfies without the harshness of old freebase liquid. A sensible move is to start at 20mg and drop to 10mg once you notice you are reaching for it less.

The strength that suits you also depends on your device. On a tight, higher-resistance MTL pod, which is what this salt is built for, 20mg feels right and a bottle lasts well because the vapour is modest. If you run a looser, lower-resistance pod that makes more vapour, 10mg is usually the kinder choice, since more vapour carries more nicotine per puff. Matching the two keeps the vape smooth and stops a bottle vanishing faster than it should.

Any mouth-to-lung pod kit or AIO. The 50/50 mix and salt nicotine suit low-power, tight-draw devices best, the kind people move to after disposables. If you run a Hayati kit, it is the matching bottle, but it works just as well in a refillable pod kit from any brand.

It is not for big sub-ohm clouds. High-wattage tanks will burn through it fast and 20mg would be far too harsh at that power, so keep Hayati Pro Max to pod kits and MTL coils. For sub-ohm, a higher-VG shortfill is the format.

In practice that covers the vast majority of devices people own today. Refillable pod kits like the Vaporesso XROS, the Uwell Caliburn or any Hayati pod are the natural home for it, and because it is a standard 50/50 salt there is nothing proprietary about it, so you are never locked to one brand of hardware. If you can fill a pod and the device is built for a tight mouth-to-lung draw, Hayati Pro Max will work in it.

A salt like Hayati Pro Max rewards a little care with your pod. When you fill a fresh pod or fit a new coil, give it a minute to soak before the first draw and take a couple of gentle priming puffs, so the wick is fully saturated and you avoid a dry, harsh first hit. Keep the pod topped up rather than vaping it down to the last drop, because running a coil dry is the quickest way to bring on a burnt taste that no amount of fresh liquid will fix.

Storage is simple but worth getting right. Keep the bottle cap closed and out of direct sun and heat, and the flavour and nicotine hold steady for months. As a nic salt it is ready to vape straight from the bottle, with no steeping needed, though a freshly filled pod always tastes truer if you let it stand a few minutes before the first puff.

At 10 bottles for £15.99, about £1.60 a 10ml bottle, Hayati Pro Max is keenly priced for a branded salt with this much choice. A 10ml bottle is roughly the nicotine of a couple of hundred cigarettes and lasts a typical pod user several days, so a box of ten is comfortably a month or two of vaping for most people. Set against single-use bars, where each device is a few pounds for a day or two, the saving is large.

It pairs naturally with a refillable kit to keep the running cost down. A cheap pod that lasts a week or two, plus a £1.60 bottle that refills it several times over, comes to a fraction of a disposable habit across a month, which is the whole point of moving to bottles and a refillable device.

Hayati Pro Max is aimed at anyone using a refillable pod kit for a tight, cigarette-style mouth-to-lung vape, which covers most people who have stepped off disposables. If you already vape a Hayati device it is the obvious house brand to pair with, but nothing about it is exclusive to Hayati hardware, so it works just as well in any MTL pod from any maker. For a newer vaper the long flavour list and the low price make it an easy, low-risk place to explore what you like.

It is less suited to anyone chasing big clouds or building their own coils, since a 50/50 salt at up to 20mg is the wrong tool for high-power sub-ohm vaping. For that, a high-VG shortfill at a low or zero nicotine strength is the format. But for the everyday job of replacing cigarettes or disposables with something cheaper and refillable, Hayati Pro Max does it with more flavour choice than almost anything else on the shelf.