Nois Nicotine Pouches Pack Of 10 Blackcurrant 16mg

Overview

The Nois Nicotine Pouches Pack Of 10 Blackcurrant 16mg by Nois in Blackcurrant 16mg at 0mg. Free UK delivery over £20, same-day dispatch on weekday orders before 4pm.

Nois Blackcurrant 16mg Pack of 10: what this listing is

Nois Nicotine Pouches Pack Of 10 Blackcurrant 16mg is a multipack of ten units of oral nicotine pouches from Nois, in a blackcurrant flavour with a stated strength of 16mg. It is priced at £37.99 on this page, which works out at roughly £3.80 per unit. You place a pouch between your upper lip and gum and leave it there while it releases flavour and nicotine. Nothing is lit, nothing is heated and nothing is inhaled, so there is no smoke and no vapour involved.

One point is worth making early, because this listing sits in an unusual spot in our catalogue. The site files it under accessories, which is a classification quirk and not a description of what the product is. It is a nicotine pouch. It needs no device, no battery, no coil and no pod, so any generic accessory wording elsewhere about fitting, pairing or matching a device does not apply to it. If you arrived here looking for a vape part, this is not one.

The Nois pack-of-10 family currently has eleven named variants on the site, and each one is its own listing: Mango Mint 12mg, Blackcurrant 16mg, Mint 20mg, Spear Mint 20mg, Eucalypt 25mg, Grape Ice 25mg, Cool Strong 35mg, Cool Strong Extreme 50mg, Extreme 50mg, Extreme Blueberry 50mg and Extreme Mango 50mg. The price is the same, £37.99, whichever you choose, so the decision comes down to flavour and strength and not to budget. Blackcurrant 16mg is the second-lowest strength in that line-up, which makes it a useful reference point for the rest of this page.

What follows covers how a pouch delivers nicotine, what blackcurrant is likely to taste like, how the pouch is built, how to read the 16mg figure, who the pack suits and who should leave it alone, how to use one properly, what to do if something feels wrong, how the pack maths compares with other formats, and how delivery, returns and disposal work for a UK order. We have written it for adults who already use nicotine, and we have kept to what can be reasoned from the listing instead of inventing specifications. Where the pack itself is the authority, such as the number of individual pouches inside each unit, we say so plainly.

How a pouch delivers nicotine, and why there is no puff count

Vape pages lean on puff counts, and it is natural to look for one here. There is not one. A pouch has no puffs, no airflow and no vapour, so the number simply does not exist for this product. The things a puff count would normally tell you, how long the product lasts and how much it delivers, are replaced by two different measures: how many minutes a single pouch stays in your mouth, and how many milligrams of nicotine it contains.

The mechanism is straightforward. The pouch is a small porous sachet holding a nicotine-containing filling, along with flavouring, sweeteners and moisture-retaining ingredients. Saliva passes through the fabric, wets the filling and carries nicotine and flavour out into your mouth. Nicotine is then absorbed through the thin lining of the gum and lip, the oral mucosa, and enters the bloodstream from there. Unlike inhaling from a vape, nothing reaches the lungs.

That route has a characteristic timing profile:

• A slower start. Inhaled nicotine reaches the brain within seconds. Oral absorption is gradual, and most people notice the effect building over several minutes and not instantly.
• A longer tail. Blood nicotine from a pouch typically rises over a period measured in tens of minutes and then eases off as the pouch is used up. The exact curve varies from person to person and depends on saliva flow, pouch position and what you have recently eaten or drunk.
• A steadier feel. Because there is no hit-by-hit delivery, there is no equivalent to taking one more puff. The dose is set when you put the pouch in.

It also helps to know that only part of the nicotine in a pouch is absorbed. The stated 16mg is the amount in the pouch, not the amount that ends up in your blood. Some of it stays in the spent pouch, and some is swallowed with saliva, which is part of why swallowing is discouraged. Because absorption varies, two people using the same pouch can report quite different effects, and the same person can feel it differently on a full stomach and an empty one.

In practical terms, performance for a pouch means three things: how reliably it stays in place and keeps its shape, how long the flavour holds, and how smoothly the nicotine comes through without harsh irritation. Later sections cover each of those. For now the key point is that this product is judged by minutes and milligrams. If you are comparing it to a pod device, think of a single pouch as a single short session and not as a store of hundreds of puffs.

Blackcurrant flavour profile: what to expect

Blackcurrant is a dark, slightly tart berry, and it is a popular choice in pouches because it carries flavour well in a wet environment. In a drink or a sweet, blackcurrant tends to open with sweetness, move into a jammy, deep fruit middle and finish with a tangy, faintly sharp edge. A pouch version generally follows the same arc, with the sweetener doing most of the early work and the tartness arriving once the pouch has been in for a minute or two.

We want to be straightforward about what we know. The listing names the flavour as Blackcurrant and gives the strength as 16mg. It does not tell us whether the build adds a cooling note, a menthol layer or a touch of mint, which is common in the pouch category. Treat the description here as a reasoned expectation of a blackcurrant pouch and not as a tasting note supplied by the manufacturer. If a cooling finish matters to you, the surest way to avoid a surprise is to read the pack on arrival, and to look at the Mango Mint, Mint and Spear Mint variants in the same range, which are named as minty.

A realistic flavour timeline for a fruit pouch looks like this:

• First minute. The initial release is the sweetest part. Expect berry sweetness and a noticeable tingle at the gum line as the nicotine begins to come through.
• Minutes two to ten. This is the stable middle, where the fruit character is at its clearest. Blackcurrant's tartness tends to sit here and gives the flavour more depth than a plain sweet berry.
• The latter half. The flavour fades gradually. The sweetener drops away first, then the fruit, leaving a mild, slightly dry sensation as the pouch settles.

Two things shape how the flavour lands for you. The first is saliva: a dry mouth releases flavour slowly, while a well-hydrated mouth releases it faster and fades sooner. The second is what you have just eaten or drunk. Coffee, strong tea and acidic drinks can compete with a delicate berry flavour or make it taste sharper, so a pouch used straight after a coffee will not taste the same as one used after water.

If you are used to fruit vapes, the main difference is that you will not get the vapour's fullness or throat feel. The flavour is entirely in the mouth, which many people find cleaner and others find thinner. Blackcurrant is a reasonable middle ground for someone who wants something fruity without the sugary intensity of candy-style flavours. If you find fruit pouches cloying, the mint variants in the same range will taste sharper and drier, and if you want fruit with a cooler finish, the Grape Ice variant sits in that space at a higher 25mg.

Design and build quality: the pack, the fabric and the filling

With a pouch, design and build quality come down to two things: how the outer packaging protects the contents, and how the pouch itself is constructed. There is no casing to inspect, no airflow to test and no screen to look at, so the checks are simpler than they would be on a vape.

The pack of 10 is ten sealed units sold together in one purchase. We say units, not pouches, deliberately. The number of individual pouches inside each unit is printed on the packaging, and we would rather you read it from the pack than rely on a figure we cannot verify from the listing. The multipack count of ten units, the 16mg strength and the Blackcurrant flavour are the details we can state with confidence. Once you have the pack, use the printed pouch count for your own cost-per-pouch arithmetic.

The pouch itself is a small, pre-portioned sachet. The outer is a porous nonwoven fabric, usually cellulose-based, and it does the job that a coil or a mesh would do in a vape: it controls how liquid and flavour move in and out. Saliva passes inward through the pores, wets the filling and carries dissolved nicotine and flavour outward again, while the fabric keeps the solid filling contained. The pore size is a balance. If the fabric is too open, filling escapes and the pouch feels gritty. If it is too tight, release is slow and the pouch feels dry and underpowered.

The filling is typically a plant-fibre base mixed with nicotine, flavouring, sweeteners and moisture-control ingredients. Many pouches also include a buffering agent that raises the pH slightly, which helps nicotine pass through the lining of the mouth. We do not have the Nois ingredient list in our listing data, so the pack is the authority on exactly what is in it. If you have allergies or sensitivities, read it before you open the first unit.

When the pack arrives, run a quick inspection:

• Check that each unit is sealed and undamaged. A crushed unit can mean crushed pouches.
• Find the best-before date and note it. Fresh pouches are soft and slightly damp, and a unit that feels dry or brittle may have been stored badly.
• Confirm that the flavour and strength printed on the pack match what you ordered: Blackcurrant, 16mg.
• Read the pouch count and the usage guidance on the pack, and keep the outer packaging for the warnings.

Judged on how it behaves, a well-built pouch holds its shape for the full time you wear it, does not split along the seam and leaves no loose filler behind. A poorly made one feels gritty or collapses within minutes. We cannot test every unit, so judge the first one yourself, and if a unit arrives damaged, photograph it and contact our UK team, because we replace faulty or damaged items free of charge.

No battery, no charging, no coil: what that removes

If you are used to vaping, the best way to understand a pouch is by listing what you no longer manage. There is no battery to charge, no charging port, no coil to prime or replace, no e-liquid capacity to run down and no pod to click in. None of the usual vape specifications apply to this product, so we are not going to dress the page with numbers borrowed from other product types. A battery capacity in mAh, a coil resistance, a tank size in millilitres: none of them has an equivalent here.

That has some practical consequences:

• Nothing to charge. A pouch works the moment you open the pack. You will never find one flat in a bag or discover the charger is at home.
• Nothing to fail. With no coil and no battery, the usual vape faults, such as burnt hits, dry pulls, leaks and dead devices, cannot happen.
• Nothing to replace. Each pouch is used once and then finished. There is no refill and no coil change.
• No airflow decisions. There is no choice between a tight and a loose draw because there is no draw.

The UK rules that shape vape specifications explain why those numbers look the way they do, and they are worth a short mention because they show where pouches sit differently. Nicotine vape liquid, including what used to go into disposables, is capped at 20mg/ml of nicotine, refillable tanks and pods are limited to 2ml, and e-liquid bottles to 10ml. Single-use disposable vapes have been banned from sale in the UK since 1 June 2025, which is why the high-puff market moved to rechargeable and refillable devices. Pouches sit outside that specification. Their strength is described in milligrams per pouch, not milligrams per millilitre, so the 20mg/ml cap is not a figure you can hold up against 16mg. They are different units describing different things.

The absence of a battery also changes disposal. A used vape contains a lithium-ion battery and must never go in general waste or household recycling, because batteries can start fires in bin lorries and sorting plants. It belongs at a vape-recycling drop-off point, such as a council household recycling centre or a retailer take-back scheme, and shops that sell vapes are required under UK waste electrical rules to offer take-back. A used pouch has no battery and no electronics, so none of that applies to it. If you are switching from a vape to pouches, though, your old device still needs to go to a recycling point and not into the bin. We cover pouch disposal in the final section.

Reading 16mg: nicotine strength guidance

This is the section to read slowly. The strength on this listing is 16mg, as stated in the product name. Two details matter: this is a figure per pouch and not per millilitre, and it is the amount of nicotine in the pouch, not the amount you absorb. Some of that nicotine is released into your saliva and swallowed, and some stays in the spent pouch, so the effect is lower than the headline number suggests. Absorption also varies with pouch position, saliva flow and how long you keep the pouch in.

Within the Nois pack-of-10 line-up on our site, strengths run from 12mg (Mango Mint) up to 50mg (the Extreme, Cool Strong Extreme, Extreme Blueberry and Extreme Mango variants). In order, the steps are 12mg, 16mg, 20mg, 25mg, 35mg and 50mg. Blackcurrant 16mg is the second step on that ladder. It is the lower end of the Nois range, but it is not a mild pouch by general standards, and it tends to sit above the strengths of many mainstream pouch brands that are sold in single digits to low teens. Treat that as a general observation and check each pack, not a measured comparison.

Converting from a vape is the part people get wrong. A vape at 20mg/ml is describing a concentration in liquid, and the nicotine you receive depends on how many puffs you take. A pouch gives you one fixed dose per unit with no puff-by-puff control. There is no accurate formula for translating one into the other. As a rough orientation only:

• If you smoke daily or vape heavily at high strength, you are more likely to find 16mg workable, because your tolerance is higher.
• If you vape at low strength, such as 3mg or 6mg e-liquid, or only use nicotine occasionally, 16mg is likely to feel strong, and the 12mg Mango Mint, or a lower-strength product from outside this range, is a more cautious start.
• If you have never used nicotine, do not start. These products are for adults who already use nicotine.

Some principles apply whatever you choose:

• Start with one pouch and wait. Give it ten to fifteen minutes before deciding whether you want another.
• Judge by effect, not habit. Lightheadedness, nausea, sweating, a racing pulse or hiccups mean it is too strong for you. Remove the pouch, rinse your mouth, sip water and wait.
• Higher is not better. If a stronger pouch only makes you want to take it out early, you are paying for nicotine you cannot use.
• Do not stack pouches. Using two at once doubles the dose and the risk of side effects.

Nicotine is addictive in whatever form it comes, and a pouch is not risk-free. If you have a heart condition, high blood pressure or diabetes, or take regular medication, speak to a GP or pharmacist before using one.

Who this pack suits, and who should skip it

Nois Blackcurrant 16mg suits a fairly specific person, and it helps to be honest about who that is. It is aimed at adult nicotine users who want a smoke-free, vapour-free, discreet option and who are comfortable with a moderately strong pouch.

It is likely to suit you if:

• You are 18 or over and already use nicotine daily, through cigarettes, vapes or other products.
• You want to use nicotine somewhere you cannot vape, such as on a long journey or in a workplace where vaping is not allowed. Check the rules that apply to you first, because some workplaces and transport operators restrict all nicotine products.
• You prefer fruit flavours over mint or menthol, and blackcurrant appeals to you.
• You want something that needs no charging, no coils and no maintenance.
• You like a steady, hands-free dose and are fine with it building more slowly than an inhaled hit.

It is probably not for you if:

• You are under 18. Our checkout is age-verified, and sales to under-18s are not permitted.
• You have never used nicotine. A 16mg pouch is a poor way to find out how you react.
• You are pregnant or breastfeeding. Nicotine is not recommended in either case.
• You have a heart or circulatory condition, or take medication that could interact, and have not checked with a doctor.
• You miss the throat hit and hand-to-mouth habit of vaping. A pouch gives you neither.
• You are trying to stop nicotine altogether. Pouches are consumer products, not licensed stop-smoking medicines. Licensed nicotine replacement therapy and NHS stop-smoking services are built for that purpose and come with support.

There is also a middle group worth naming: people who want to cut down on vaping, perhaps because they are tired of charging and replacing coils, but who still want nicotine. For them, pouches are one practical alternative, provided the strength is chosen sensibly. The most common mistake in that group is choosing a pouch strength to match a vape's milligrams per millilitre figure, which the strength section explained does not translate.

How to use a Nois pouch, step by step

Using a pouch is simple, but a few details make the difference between a pleasant experience and an irritating one.

• Step 1: check the pack. Confirm the strength and flavour, check the best-before date, and make sure your hands are clean and dry.
• Step 2: take out one pouch. Do not squeeze, bend or pre-chew it. Reseal the unit straight away so the remaining pouches stay moist.
• Step 3: place it between your upper lip and gum. Position it flat and toward the side of your mouth, not right at the front where it is more visible and more likely to irritate the lip. Most people prefer the upper lip, though some find the lower lip more comfortable.
• Step 4: leave it alone. You may feel a tingle within a minute. That is normal and usually settles as the pouch warms and saturates. Avoid pushing it around with your tongue.
• Step 5: time it. Most people keep a pouch in for somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes. Follow the maximum time printed on the pack and do not exceed it.
• Step 6: remove and dispose. Take the pouch out, wrap it in a tissue or use the used-pouch compartment if the pack has one, and put it in the general waste bin.

Some habits help. Avoid swallowing large amounts of saliva during the first few minutes, because swallowed nicotine is more likely to cause nausea and hiccups. Rotate sides between pouches so the same patch of gum is not exposed every time. Avoid eating and drinking while a pouch is in, and avoid coffee, fizzy drinks and other acidic drinks for a few minutes beforehand, because they can reduce absorption. Plain water is fine.

Do not chew or swallow the pouch. Do not use more than one at a time. Do not leave a pouch in overnight or while sleeping. Keep the pack out of reach of children and pets, because even used pouches still contain residual nicotine.

Troubleshooting: when a pouch does not behave

With no device involved, there is not much to go wrong, but these are the problems people report and what usually helps.

• It burns or stings too much. A mild tingle is normal, but a strong burn means the pouch is too strong for you or is sitting against a sensitive spot. Take it out, rinse with water and try a lower strength next time. If the problem continues at lower strengths, stop using pouches.
• Nausea, dizziness, sweating or a racing heart. These are signs of too much nicotine. Remove the pouch, sit down, sip water and wait for it to pass. If symptoms are severe or do not ease, seek medical help.
• Hiccups or stomach discomfort. Usually caused by swallowing too much saliva. Try swallowing less, shift the pouch position, or avoid using one on an empty stomach.
• The flavour disappears quickly. A dry mouth or a very porous pouch can shorten the flavour. Drink some water beforehand and keep the unit sealed so the remaining pouches stay moist. If every pouch fades within a few minutes, the unit may be old, so check the date.
• The pouch feels dry or hard. Pouches that have dried out release flavour and nicotine poorly. Always reseal the unit after taking one. If a freshly delivered unit is dry, contact our UK team before opening more.
• It feels too weak. Give it the full time, avoid eating and drinking during use, and allow ten to fifteen minutes before judging. Do not double up. If it is consistently too weak, a higher strength in the range is an option, but step up carefully.
• Sore or irritated gum. Rotate sides, take breaks, and do not leave pouches in for longer than the pack allows. Persistent soreness, white patches or ulcers deserve a visit to a dentist or GP.
• The pouch slips or moves around. Place it flat against the gum, away from any bump or gap, and resist the urge to push it with your tongue.
• Damaged or wrong item. If a unit arrives crushed or split, or you receive the wrong flavour or strength, photograph it with the packaging and contact our UK team for a replacement.

If a symptom worries you, stop using the product and speak to a pharmacist or GP. Do not push through discomfort in the hope it settles, because with a nicotine product the sensible response to feeling unwell is to stop.

Value for money: the pack maths

The maths is simple. The pack is £37.99 for ten units, which is roughly £3.80 each. The same flavour in a pack of 5 is £18.99, which is also about £3.80 each. There is no per-unit discount for buying the larger pack, and it would be misleading to suggest otherwise. Two packs of five cost £37.98, a penny less than one pack of ten.

Where the pack of 10 does help is delivery. Our free UK delivery threshold is £20. A single pack of 5 at £18.99 falls below it, so it would normally add £1.99 for Royal Mail Tracked 24, taking the total to £20.98, or about £4.20 a unit. The pack of 10 clears the threshold on its own and ships free, so it works out at £3.80 a unit delivered. If you only want five units, the pack of 5 is the sensible buy. If you are going to use ten or more, the larger pack is cheaper per unit once delivery is counted, and two packs of five tie it.

Cost per pouch depends on how many pouches are in each unit, and that is printed on the pack. Once you know the number, divide £3.80 by it to get the cost of one pouch, then multiply by how many you use a day to get a daily cost. For a rough sense of running cost using units alone:

• One unit a day costs about £3.80 a day, and the pack lasts ten days.
• One unit every two days costs about £1.90 a day, and the pack lasts twenty days.
• Three units a week costs about £11.40 a week, and the pack lasts a little over three weeks.

Whether that is good value depends on what you compare it with. Against your current spend on vapes, pods or cigarettes, add up a typical week and compare. A pouch has no running costs beyond the pouch itself: no coils, no charging cable, no replacement pods and no device to replace when the battery wears out. That absence of hidden costs is the main financial argument for the format.

The costliest mistake is not the unit price, it is buying the wrong strength. Ordering several packs of a variant you have never tried, and then finding it too strong or the flavour not to your taste, wastes far more than any delivery saving. If you are unsure, buy a single pack of the variant you think you will want, or a pack of 5 to sample it, and only then stock up.

How it compares with other Nois variants, other pouches and other formats

A fair comparison means being clear about what each option does well and what it does badly.

Against other Nois variants. The pack-of-10 range covers six strength steps from 12mg to 50mg. Going by the variant names, Blackcurrant is the one fruit-led option below 20mg that is not paired with mint. The mint and eucalypt variants will taste cooler and drier, and the 50mg Extreme variants are a different proposition entirely, intended for people with a high tolerance. If you like the idea of Nois but find 16mg too strong, Mango Mint 12mg is the step down. If it feels too weak, Mint or Spear Mint at 20mg is the next step up, with a different flavour direction.

Against mainstream pouch brands. The big-name brands such as Velo, Zyn and Nordic Spirit are widely stocked, usually sold in tins of around twenty pouches, and generally offer strengths that sit lower than most of this Nois range. They have more published information and more familiar flavour profiles. Nois offers a wider range of higher strengths and a flavour list that leans towards bold fruit and cooling mint. We do not have a manufacturer spec sheet for Nois in our listing data, so if brand familiarity or ingredient transparency matters to you, check the pack and compare it with what you currently use.

Against vapes. Pouches win on discretion, convenience and maintenance: no charging, no coils, no leaks and no vapour. They lose on speed of delivery, because oral absorption is slower than inhaling. They also lose on the hand-to-mouth habit and throat hit that many vapers value, and on fine control, because a vape lets you taper nicotine through small steps in strength and a pouch gives you fewer increments.

Against licensed nicotine replacement. Gum, lozenges, patches and inhalators are licensed medicines with dosing guidance and clinical evidence behind them. Pouches are consumer products with no such status. If your aim is to stop using nicotine, licensed replacement therapy and NHS stop-smoking services are designed for that. Pouches suit someone who wants a different way to take nicotine and has not decided to quit.

Against snus and cigarettes. Snus is tobacco-based and its sale is banned in the UK, whereas nicotine pouches are tobacco-free, with nicotine added to a plant-fibre base. They are used in a similar way but are not the same thing. Compared with cigarettes, a pouch involves no combustion and no smoke, but it still contains nicotine, which is addictive. We make no claim that pouches are safe, and we do not present them as a stop-smoking aid.

Delivery, returns, storage and disposal

Delivery. Orders placed on weekdays before 4pm are dispatched the same day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 costs £1.99 and is free on UK orders over £20, so this pack ships free. DPD Next Working Day is £3.99, or £2.99 on orders over £20 and free on orders over £100. Parcels arrive in plain, discreet packaging, and checkout is age-verified, so please have a delivery address where an adult can receive the parcel.

Returns and faults. Unopened, unsealed product can be returned within 14 days of delivery. Opened consumables cannot be returned for health and safety reasons. Because there is no device, there is no warranty in the vape sense, but if a unit arrives faulty, damaged or not as described, we replace it free of charge. Keep the original packaging, take a clear photo and contact our UK team.

Storage. Keep the pack in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and heat. A parked car on a warm day is a bad place for a pouch, because heat dries the pouch and degrades the flavour. Keep each unit sealed between uses, do not decant pouches into other containers, and store the pack well out of reach of children and pets. Use the pouches before the best-before date printed on the pack.

Disposal. Put used pouches in the general waste bin. Never flush them and never drop them in the street. The cardboard outer recycles with your household collection, and any plastic wrapping or unit casing follows your local council guidance, so check the symbols on the pack. Because a pouch has no battery, it needs no special drop-off point. If you are moving across from a vape, take the old device, its battery and any spare pods to a vape-recycling drop-off point at a council recycling centre or a retailer take-back scheme and do not put them in your bin.