Smokeless Cigarettes Review – South Beach Smoke

Since South Beach Smoke are pretty new on the smokeless cigarettes scene they are working hard to get their name out their to potential new users, so they were kind enough to offer me a discount in return for a review on my website. That’s a pretty fair deal. So I bought their Deluxe Starter Kit ($49.99/$99.99) to see if they were as good as I had been promised.

I was unsure what to expect really as I hadn’t heard a lot about South Beach before hand, I heard people talking about them, but not much in the way of reviews, so the water was untested, so to speak.

First impressions were good though, the packaging was nice, very classy and everything looked and smelled like it should.

Using The South Beach

The South Beach Deluxe cigarette is a two piece design (their “Premium” device is a 3 piece) so it’s easy to trouble free to get vaping. After a few priming puffs to get the fresh atomizer working at it’s best you are rewarded with a good amount of vapor. It’s not ground breaking by any means, but it is decent. Enough to make you feel at home. The tobacco flavor that I have went for is really very nice, it’s not really a very strong tobacco flavor but it’s nice none the less. The type of flavor that most people are going to like, it shouldn’t be offensive to anyone.

As I’m trying to cut down on my nicotine intake I opted for 12mg (Light) refills, sadly with these there isn’t much of a throat hit, even with 3 or 4 big drags you don’t get much throat feel. This might be improved by choosing the “Full Flavored” 16mg, but I would still expect a reasonable hit at 12mg though.

Cartridges

When it comes down to choosing cartridges you have an OK selection to choose from. South Beach offer Tobacco, Menthol, Cherry, Vanilla and Chocolate. It’s not an amazing selection and it doesn’t offer any unusual flavors, but it is good enough for most people. Sadly I’ve not tried any of the other flavors but I am going to try and get a hold of them and see how they perform. I’ll update this when I do.

In my experience so far I have been able to get between 200 and 250 puffs out of each cartridge, this equates to 20 to 25 regular cigarettes. This is slightly better than average, so pretty good.

Cost

When you have a look at the South Beach Smoke website you will notice that there are three prices for their refill packs (and two prices for their E cigarette starter kits). The first two of the prices for the refills are pretty self explanatory, the regular price and a price for buying in bulk. At the regular price you will pay £39.99 for 15 cartridges ($2.66 each), if you buy in bulk, 4 packs of 15 at a time or more, you will pay just $31.99 per pack of 15 ($2.13 each). Then you have the member price, what is this you ask? Well, basically when you buy your starter kit you can choose to join up to the South Beach Home Delivery Program, this means that you have a set number of refill cartridges sent to your home every few weeks automatically. Saving you from reordering cartridges all the time. In return for signing up to the program you get a discount on your starter kit and a substantial reduction on your refills. It will cost you only $29.99 for 15 refill cartridges in the program (only $1.99 each).

Batteries

In the Deluxe starter kit you get 2 batteries, a 2.5 inch and a 3.25 inch. As you would expect you get more use out of the larger battery before you need to recharge it. Other than that there is no difference between the experience provided by each of the batteries. From the smaller battery I found I got about 350-400 puffs out of a full charge, so almost enough time to use two full refills. I haven’t use the larger battery all that much because its a little too big to carry around with me in the cases that I have, but you should get about 600 puffs out of it.

Overall I think the South Beach Smoke Deluxe kit is a really good device one of the best electronic cigarettes, there isn’t all that much that I can find to fault with it. The only things that I would like to see is a stronger throat feel as there isn’t much there right now. The only other thing is to improve the vapor, this is just minor thing, but I feel it would make the overall experience much more authentic. Compared to the Safe Cig and Green Smoke, they are very close if not equal to both of these devices.