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Miniciggy has been selling cigalikes since 2006. Nearly twenty years of making the same product, the right way, for the same kind of customer: adult smokers who want an alternative that looks, feels, and works like a cigarette.

We've watched the industry chase fruit flavours, bigger clouds, sleeker pods, and disposable everything. We didn't follow. Cigalikes are what work for the people we sell to, and that's what we make.

These blogs is where we write about it. Switching from smoking, what nicotine actually is, why cigalike batteries last the way they do, how the regulatory landscape is changing, and the questions we get asked most often by customers. Written plainly, for adults, by people who've been doing this longer than most of the industry has existed.


Smoking vs Vaping: What the UK Evidence Actually Says

Smoking vs Vaping: What the UK Evidence Actually Says

"Harm reduction" gets used a lot in vaping conversations, often without much explanation of what it actually means or where the evidence behind it comes from. Here's a plain look at what the UK's public health reviews have found, what they haven't, a...

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Why Nicotine Salt Vapes Don't Feel Like Smoking — And Cigalikes Do

Why Nicotine Salt Vapes Don't Feel Like Smoking — And Cigalikes Do

Nicotine salt vapes are smooth, sweet, and easy to use — but they weren't built with smokers in mind. Pod systems and mods have dominated the vape market, bringing with them nic salt formulations, candy flavours, and loose airy draws that feel nothin...

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How to Use a Rechargeable Cigalike: A Specialist's Guide

How to Use a Rechargeable Cigalike: A Specialist's Guide

Rechargeable cigalikes are still the right answer for adult smokers who want something that looks, feels and behaves like a cigarette. Here's how to set one up, use it properly, and look after it — from the UK's longest-standing cigalike specialist...

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The Real Reason Most E-Cigarette Batteries Stop Working

The Real Reason Most E-Cigarette Batteries Stop Working

After nearly two decades of selling and replacing e-cigarette batteries, we can tell you something that might save you a replacement order: roughly nine out of ten batteries that come back to us as "faulty" aren't faulty at all...

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Why we don't use nicotine salts — and why that matters

Why we don't use nicotine salts — and why that matters

Most vapes on the market use nicotine salts to deliver high-strength nicotine in a smooth, almost imperceptible form. Miniciggy never has — and the reason matters. A look at how nicotine salts work, who they were designed for, and why we still use fr...

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Thinking about switching? An honest guide for smokers who've never vaped (or tried it and gave up)

Thinking about switching? An honest guide for smokers who've never vaped (or tried it and gave up)

An honest take on what switching from smoking to e-cigarettes actually feels like. What to expect, why most attempts fail, and what to do if your first try didn't stick. Written for adults thinking it through on their own terms — no lecture, no sales...

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20 Years of Miniciggy: Why We've Always Been a Cigalike, and Always Will Be

20 Years of Miniciggy: Why We've Always Been a Cigalike, and Always Will Be

Miniciggy has been trading since 2006. That makes us one of the longest-running e-cigarette retailers in the UK — and almost certainly the longest-running one that still makes the same kind of product it started with.We thought it was worth taking a ...

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Built for Smokers, Not for Show: Why Cigalikes Matter

Built for Smokers, Not for Show: Why Cigalikes Matter

For nearly two decades, cigalikes have done one job extremely well: give adult smokers a recognisable, low-effort alternative to cigarettes. The market has since filled up with pod systems, refillable tanks, and — until the ban on 1 June 2025 — dispo...

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