IVG Smart Refill Pods

Two parts, working together. The bit you vape on is a 2ml prefilled pod with a mesh coil. Beneath it sits a 10ml auto-refill container that trickle-feeds the pod as you go, so it tops itself up rather than you doing it. Add the two and that is the 12ml that gives you the roughly 10,000 puffs.

It is the same setup the Smart Max kit uses, sold on its own. Because the device recharges, the pod always sees out its full life, and you are only ever replacing the liquid and coil, never a battery. Cheaper per puff than a fresh kit, and less waste too. Worth noting that the device Boost mode gets through a refill quicker than Eco, so the 10,000-puff figure is an Eco-mode number.

Swapping a refill takes under a minute, and the liquid never touches your hands.

They are 20mg (2%) nic salt across the full flavour range, the UK legal maximum and the strength most people use coming off cigarettes. A handful of the most popular flavours are also offered in 10mg (1%) for a lighter hit, names like Blue Raspberry Ice, Classic Menthol and Cola Ice, so check the flavour you want if 10mg matters to you.

Where a flavour does come in both, you can keep the same taste and step from 20mg to 10mg as your cravings ease. To taper below 10mg, that points you towards a refillable pod kit you fill with bottled nic salts rather than these sealed pods.

A while per refill. At up to 10,000 puffs a moderate vaper gets around a week to ten days from one, so a five-pack runs the better part of a couple of months. The container auto-feeds the pod, so there is no topping up by hand; you vape until the 12ml is gone, then swap.

On cost it is the cheap half of the kit. At 5 for £24.99 a refill is about £5 for roughly 10,000 puffs, which lands near 0.05p a puff once you own the device. A whole new Smart Max kit costs more than a refill, so restocking pods is the cheaper, lower-waste route: no new battery, no new screen, just a fresh flavour.

Because both the pod and the container are clear, you can read the level at a glance and see when a refill is genuinely spent rather than guessing, and the screen counts your puffs as a second check. A sensible habit is to keep a spare refill in the drawer so you are never caught mid-flavour with a dry pod and no backup.

Most refill niggles come down to one of a few things. Run through these before you write a pod off.

All three are IVG auto-refill or prefilled pods at different scales, and each fits only its own device. The Smart Max refill is the mid-size 10K option, and the one that lets you switch strength on the popular flavours. Quick version, so you grab the right pod for the kit you own:

Yes, comfortably. That is the point of the Smart Max being a kit: you buy the device once, with its screen and dual modes, then only ever the refills. At about £5 a refill for roughly 10,000 puffs, the per-puff cost is hard to beat, and the rechargeable body just keeps going across pod after pod.

Once you own the kit, buying refills is the cheaper, lower-waste way to keep vaping: no new battery, no new charger, just a fresh flavour. Not got the device yet? Start with the IVG Smart Max kit and come back here for refills, or compare it with our other big-puff vapes.