Innokin Endura T18E Starter Kit

The Endura Prism tank is the bit Innokin gets most credit for. It is a top-fill design, which means you twist off the top cap, fill from above, and screw it back on. No flipping the device upside down, no fiddling underneath. The Pyrex glass keeps the juice visible and sits in a stainless steel housing that handles the odd knock without drama.

The coil inside is a 1.5ohm Prism head, organic cotton, made for a low-power MTL draw. That coil produces accurate, understated flavour rather than the warm, cloudy hit you get from a sub-ohm kit, which is exactly right for someone coming from cigarettes. You can also run 1.7ohm coils if you want a slightly tighter, cooler draw at the same 14W. Both are available as replacement packs and designed specifically for the T18E family.

Getting the most out of a coil starts before the first puff. Fill the tank, let it stand for five minutes so the cotton is fully saturated, then take a couple of soft draws without firing the button. That soaks the cotton evenly and avoids the unpleasant scorched taste you get if you go straight in on a dry coil. After that, just vape normally and the coil looks after itself.

A 1000mAh battery is on the modest side for a vape kit, and it is worth knowing that up front rather than discovering it at the wrong moment. At 14W and with typical MTL use, most people get a solid day of vaping from a full charge, sometimes a touch more if they are not heavy users. The 3-colour LED takes the anxiety out of it: you can tell at a glance where you are without having to count button presses or squint at a tiny screen.

Charging is over micro-USB, which is the one genuinely dated thing about the T18E. Most current kits have moved to USB-C, and you will want to keep a micro-USB lead somewhere handy for this one. The pass-through charging feature does make up for it a little: the T18E can fire while it is plugged in, so a low battery mid-afternoon does not mean you have to put it down. A full charge takes around two hours from empty.

For heavy vapers, the practical workaround is simple. Charge it overnight, grab it in the morning, and if you are out for a long stretch keep a cable in your bag. The kind of person who was going through a pack a day is usually surprised how rarely the battery becomes a real problem once they have settled into a vaping routine.

The 1.5ohm coil at 14W is designed for a 50/50 or high-PG e-liquid and a mouth-to-lung draw. Nic salts are the natural match. They sit smooth at higher strengths, which is what most people need when they have only just stopped smoking, and they work well through a 1.5ohm coil. Anything from our nic salt range suits it: IVG Intense, Hayati Pro, ELFLIQ and MaryLiq all perform well in the T18E.

High-VG sub-ohm juice is what to avoid. A thick 70% VG e-liquid cannot wick through a 1.5ohm coil quickly enough and will either taste burnt or gunk up the coil inside a day. If you want to vape a shortfill or a high-VG blend, you are better suited to a sub-ohm kit with a 0.4 or 0.6ohm mesh coil and a proper airflow, which is a different category entirely.

For the T18E, keep it simple: a 10mg or 20mg nic salt in a 50/50 ratio, from a flavour you actually like. The coil is accurate enough that a good juice tastes genuinely good through it.

The thing that keeps the Endura range affordable to live with over time is that the consumable is just a coil, not a whole pod. When the flavour from a 1.5ohm Prism head starts to taste muted or slightly caramelised, you unscrew it from the base of the tank and fit a fresh one. No new tank, no new pod, just the small coil head. Prism T18E coils come in multi-packs and cost far less per change than a replacement pod does on a modern pod kit.

A realistic coil life is one to two weeks with consistent use, longer if you are not vaping heavily or if you keep the tank topped up rather than letting it run dry on a hot coil. The cues to change are the same as any coil: a slightly muffled flavour, a faint sweetness on the exhale that was not there before, or an occasional dry hit. Any of those means it is time.

Against the cost of cigarettes, the maths are embarrassing for the cigarettes. A pack of twenty costs over ten pounds now. The T18E costs £19.99 once, a coil pack might add two or three pounds every fortnight, and a few 10ml bottles of nic salt another five or six pounds a week. You are looking at a fraction of what you were spending on tobacco within the first month, which is a genuinely useful thing to tell someone who is on the fence about making the switch.

Shopping for a first vape usually comes down to three or four types of kit. Here is where the T18E sits honestly in that field.