IVG Pro 12 Zero Nicotine Starter Kit Blue Raspberry Ice

Overview

The IVG Pro 12 Zero Nicotine Starter Kit Blue Raspberry Ice by IVG delivers up to 10,000 puffs in Blue Raspberry Ice at 10mg and 20mg. Free UK delivery over £20, same-day dispatch on weekday orders before 4pm.

What the IVG Pro 12 zero nicotine kit includes

IVG Pro 12 Zero Nicotine Starter Kit Blue Raspberry Ice is a complete, ready-to-vape set from IVG, pairing the Pro 12 battery unit with a prefilled pod of 0mg e-liquid. It is rated at 10,000 puffs and lists at £8.99 on this site. Nothing needs filling, priming or assembling beyond pushing the pod into place, which is why this style of product has become a first choice for adults who want to vape without learning a hobby first.

The "starter kit" label is worth unpacking. It means the box holds the reusable hardware and the first pod together. When that first pod is spent you buy a replacement pod rather than a whole new device, so the battery unit keeps working across many pods. Within our range this sits in the wider vape kits group, and the closed-pod arrangement it uses is explained in the sections below.

The "zero nicotine" part is the unusual bit. Most kits at this price are sold in 10mg or 20mg, so a 0mg version has a specific audience: adults who like the flavour, the hand-feel and the ritual of vaping but do not want nicotine in the liquid. The Pro 12 family is listed in several strengths across our catalogue, so check that the 0mg option is the one you have selected before you order.

• Product: IVG Pro 12 Zero Nicotine Starter Kit
• Flavour: Blue Raspberry Ice
• Format: prefilled closed-pod starter kit
• Nicotine: 0mg
• Rated puffs: 10,000 per pod
• Price: £8.99

IVG is the largest brand we stock, with several hundred lines listed, and the Pro 12 is one of its big-puff designs. As with everything on this site, the kit is sold to adults aged 18 and over only, nicotine-free or not.

Starter kit, disposable or loose pod: how they differ

Three different products tend to get lumped together, so it helps to draw the lines early. A disposable vape is a single sealed unit that you use until the liquid or the battery runs out, then throw away. A refill pod is only the consumable part and needs a compatible battery to go into. A starter kit is the pair, battery and pod in one box, bought once and then kept going with replacement pods.

This product is the third of those. Because the pod is prefilled and not designed to be opened, the system is called closed-pod, and you can browse the whole family under closed pod vape kits. What it offers that a conventional disposable vape does not is a battery you keep. For many people that matters on two fronts: there is less to throw out each time, and the running cost after the first purchase drops to the price of a pod.

It also helps to be clear about what the 10,000 puff figure refers to. On a disposable, the rating describes the whole product. On a kit like this, it describes the pod. The battery unit is recharged and reused, so the rating tells you how long one pod should last, not how long the device itself will.

There is a trade-off, and it is only fair to name it. A disposable asks nothing of you beyond the first draw, while a kit asks you to charge a battery and to remember a spare pod when you leave the house. If you want a vape you can forget about entirely, a disposable is simpler. If you would rather own a device and swap flavours between pods, a kit makes more sense, especially at £8.99, where the entry cost sits close to the price of a single disposable.

The format also changes how you shop for replacements. Pods are sold separately from the kit, so it pays to know which ones match before the first one runs dry. We point you to the right place later on this page.

Inside the pod: liquid, wick, coil and airflow

Open up a sealed pod and you would find the same four parts that sit inside almost every vape: a reservoir, a wick, a coil and an airflow path. They are small, but the way they work together explains most of what you notice when you use the kit.

The reservoir holds the 0mg e-liquid. A cotton wick runs from the reservoir to the coil, drawing liquid along by capillary action in the same way a sponge pulls up water. The coil is a short length of resistance wire. When the battery sends power to it the coil heats, the liquid soaked into the wick turns to vapour, and you pull that vapour through the mouthpiece along with a stream of air.

In a closed pod all of these parts are chosen together at the factory. The thickness of the liquid, the density of the wick and the resistance of the coil are matched as a set, which is why prefilled pods usually behave predictably from the first draw to the last. You are not choosing coils, adjusting wattage or topping up. The cost of that simplicity is flexibility: you cannot swap in your own juice, and you cannot replace a worn coil on its own. When the pod is done, the whole pod is done.

Whether your kit fires when you inhale or when you press a button depends on the Pro 12 hardware, and the leaflet in the box is the place to confirm it for your unit. We would rather point you there than guess and get it wrong.

A word on scale. Pods are compact by design, so the amount of e-liquid in any one of them is modest. That is why the 10,000 puff rating is best read as the manufacturer's estimate under standard conditions, not a measured promise. Heavy, long draws will use a pod faster than the rating suggests, and short, light ones may stretch it further. The rating is a useful way to compare one product with another, and a poor way to predict your own week.

Blue Raspberry Ice on the draw: sweet, tangy and cool

Think slush drink rather than fruit bowl. Blue raspberry is a confectionery flavour, the bright, sugary-sharp taste you meet in ice lollies, boiled sweets and fizzy drinks, and it has little to do with a punnet of fresh raspberries. That is the starting point for this kit, and the "ice" in the name adds a cooling layer on top.

On the inhale, expect a sweet berry front with a slight tang, the sort of sharpness that keeps the sugar from feeling flat. Mid-draw, the raspberry note holds the middle ground while the cooling element builds. On the exhale the chill is at its clearest, felt mostly across the tongue and the back of the mouth. Ice flavourings of this kind tend to be closer to a frozen drink than to an arctic mint blast, but the exact balance varies between manufacturers, so treat this as a guide rather than a lab result.

The 0mg strength changes the experience in a way worth knowing about. Nicotine brings a throat catch, a slight bite that some people like and some do not. Without it, the flavour is the whole show and tends to read smoother and a touch sweeter. If you have come down from a higher strength, the missing throat hit can feel strange for the first few pods, so give it a few days before you judge it.

Sweet flavours also invite palate fatigue. If this one seems to fade after a day or two, that is usually your taste buds adapting and not the pod failing. Switching to a mint or menthol for an afternoon often resets things. Within the same kit line there are other styles to choose from, among them Blue Sour Raspberry, Red Sour Raspberry, Strawberry Ice, Pineapple Ice, Lemon Lime and Classic Menthol, so a second pod in a different direction is easy to arrange.

Who a 0mg kit suits, and where the strength ladder starts

A nicotine-free kit is a narrower product than most vape listings admit, so it is worth being direct about who it serves. It suits adults who already vape and want nicotine out of the mix altogether, perhaps because they have been stepping their strength down and have reached the bottom rung. It suits people who enjoy flavour and ritual but find even low strengths unpleasant. And it suits occasional or social users who want something to hold and sip on without the effect that comes with a stronger liquid.

Where it does not suit is equally clear. If you currently use nicotine every day, a 0mg pod will not supply any, and you may find it unsatisfying. A pod at a strength matched to your habits is the more sensible purchase in that case. It is also not for anyone under 18: nicotine-free or not, vaping products are for adults only.

It helps to see where 0mg sits on the scale. Strength is measured in milligrams of nicotine per millilitre of liquid. The legal ceiling for nicotine-containing e-liquid in the UK is 20mg per millilitre, and between nothing and that cap sit the familiar steps. Low strengths such as 3mg and 6mg are typical of bottled liquid in larger devices. Pod kits tend to use 10mg and 20mg, which is why the wider Pro 12 range lists those two. Higher strengths are usually paired with nicotine salt formulations, which feel smoother at a given level, and you can explore that style under nicotine salt e-liquids.

Because 0mg contains no nicotine at all, the salt versus freebase distinction does not matter for this particular kit. If you later fancy mixing your own flavours without nicotine, the nicotine-free e-liquids range is where bottled 0mg lives.

Moving between strengths is a personal call and not one we can make for you. What we can say is that changing course is easy, because the strength lives in the pod and not in the battery. Pods made for the Pro 12 are listed in other strengths too.

The numbers: price, puff rating and cost per day

Start with what can be verified: £8.99 for the kit, with the pod rated at 10,000 puffs. Everything below is arithmetic on those two figures, so you can check the working yourself.

Divide the price by the rating and the kit works out at about 0.09p per puff. That is a tidy figure, but a puff rating is an estimate drawn from a standard test, not a guarantee. Long, hard pulls use more liquid than short, gentle ones, and chain-vaping uses more than occasional sips. Treat the rating as a guide to relative size.

To turn it into something you can feel, here are three imaginary habits, each assuming the pod delivers its full rating:

• Around 100 puffs a day: roughly 100 days from one pod, or about 9p a day.
• Around 150 puffs a day: roughly 67 days, or about 13p a day.
• Around 300 puffs a day: roughly 33 days, or about 27p a day.

Real life rarely matches the rating exactly, so a cautious buyer might shave a quarter off each of those day counts and still be in a sensible range.

One more honest point on cost: the first purchase includes the battery unit. The matching Zero Nicotine prefilled pod lists at £6.99 on this site, which means the kit costs £2 more than a pod alone at the time of writing. From the second pod onward your cost is the pod price, and that is the figure to keep in mind when you compare this with a single-use device.

If you want to see how other products at the same rating are priced, the 10,000 puff vapes page groups them together. A bigger number does not automatically mean better value, because price and your own habits decide what you actually pay per day. A light user may be better served by a smaller, cheaper pod, and a heavy user by a larger one.

Unboxing, fitting the pod and your first few draws

Give yourself two minutes and a well-lit spot. Rushing the first few draws is the commonest reason a perfectly good pod gets blamed for a fault it does not have. A simple routine works for most closed-pod kits, though the leaflet in your box has the final word for this unit.

• Inspect everything. Check the pod for cracks, a loose mouthpiece or liquid on the outside, and check the battery for damage. If anything looks wrong, do not use it and get in touch with us.
• Remove seals. Peel off any protective film or caps that the pod and battery ship with. A seal left over the contacts or the airflow path is a classic cause of "it does not work".
• Charge if needed. Some batteries arrive with a little charge and some with none. If it feels lifeless, give it a top-up before anything else.
• Seat the pod. Push it firmly into the battery until it sits flush. A pod that is only half in is the biggest single source of no-vapour complaints.
• Wait a minute. Let the wick take up liquid before the first draw, particularly if the kit spent time on its side in transit.
• Start gently. Take two or three short, soft draws, then settle into your usual rhythm.

For the opening minute, resist the urge to pull hard. A dry or partly soaked wick that is fired repeatedly can taste scorched, and once that taste has set in it can be hard to shift. Gentle sips give the wick time to catch up with the coil.

Draw style matters in general. Most closed-pod kits in this class are designed for a mouth-to-lung draw, which means a slow pull into the mouth first and a breath in afterwards. A slow, steady pull gives more flavour and uses less liquid than a short, sharp tug, and it tends to be gentler on the wick too.

Charging, battery habits and storage

The pod has no battery of its own, so the battery unit is the part you look after. How long a charge lasts depends on how often you draw and how long each pull is. We do not quote a runtime because we cannot verify one for this unit, but we can offer habits that suit any rechargeable vape.

Use the cable and charging method described in the leaflet. Pick a cable and plug in good condition, and avoid cheap unbranded chargers of unknown origin. Do not leave the kit charging unattended, and never charge it under a pillow, on soft furnishings, in a bag or anywhere it cannot shed heat. If the battery ever swells, smells odd or runs unusually hot, stop using it and take it to a proper battery recycling point.

Storage is mostly about temperature and orientation. Keep the kit upright, somewhere cool and dry, away from direct sun, radiators and the dashboard of a parked car. Heat thins the liquid and encourages leaks, and a pod that has been cooked in a warm pocket often tastes flat afterwards. Spare pods should stay in their original wrapping where possible, standing upright, until you need them. Do not let a loose kit rattle around in a pocket with coins and keys, since metal can bridge the contacts.

Travel needs a little thought. Airlines generally require rechargeable vapes to travel in hand luggage rather than the hold, because of the rules on lithium batteries, so check your carrier before you pack. Pressure changes in the air can also push liquid towards the mouthpiece, so keep the kit upright and carry a tissue.

When the time comes to dispose of a finished pod or a worn-out battery, do not put them in the household bin. Both belong in electrical and battery recycling, which many supermarkets and local council sites provide free of charge.

Pros and cons, weighed without the sales gloss

No kit suits everybody, so here are both columns, plainly stated.

What works in its favour

• Simple to use. The pod is sealed and prefilled, so you fit it and vape. There is no filling, priming or coil changing.
• Nicotine-free. If you want flavour and routine without nicotine, that is exactly what this offers.
• Low entry price. At £8.99 you get a battery and a pod in the same box.
• Reusable hardware. The battery unit stays with you, and only the pod is replaced.
• Distinctive flavour. Blue Raspberry Ice is easy to recognise, with a tangy berry and a cool finish.
• Generous rating. A figure of 10,000 puffs per pod keeps the cost per puff low.

What counts against it

• No nicotine. It is the wrong product for anyone who wants nicotine in the pod.
• Sealed pod. You cannot refill it or change the liquid, so the flavour is locked in until the pod is done.
• Sweetness. A sweet flavour can tire your palate over a few days.
• Rating is an estimate. Your real puff count will depend on how you draw.
• Battery care. You need to charge it and handle it sensibly, which a single-use product never asks of you.
• Unlisted specifications. We have not published battery capacity or liquid volume because we cannot confirm them. The leaflet in the box is the source for those.

Weigh those two lists against your own habits. If you want something plug-and-go, with no nicotine, at a modest outlay, the case for this kit is a strong one. If you want to choose your own liquids or wish to control the strength with more precision, it is worth looking at other formats before you buy.

Troubleshooting: no vapour, weak flavour, leaks and burnt taste

Before you assume a fault, run through the usual suspects. Most problems with closed-pod kits have a simple cause, and the fix costs nothing.

• No vapour or no response. Check that the battery has charge. Then take the pod out, wipe the contacts on both parts with a dry tissue, and press it back in firmly. A pod that is not fully seated is the most likely culprit, with a protective seal that was never removed a close second.
• Weak or flat flavour. Think of palate fatigue first, particularly with a sweet profile. Rest it for a day or try a mint or menthol pod. A pod left in the sun or a hot car can also taste dull, so check where it has been stored.
• A burnt or harsh taste. This often means the wick has dried out, usually from long or rapid draws. Stop, rest the kit for a few minutes, and take short sips. If the taste returns on every draw, the pod is probably at the end of its life.
• Leaking or gurgling. Wipe the mouthpiece and contacts, keep the kit upright, and avoid heat. Condensation can collect in the airflow path, so wipe the mouthpiece dry and let the kit rest upright for a while before using it again.
• Battery will not hold a charge. Try a different cable and plug before blaming the unit. If the problem persists, contact us rather than carrying on.
• Pod runs out far sooner than the rating. Heavy, long draws consume liquid faster. The rating is an estimate, not a countdown.

If none of that helps, or if anything looks damaged, stop using the kit and use our contact page. Send your order number and a clear photo of the problem, and we will tell you what the next step is. Please do not try to prise open a sealed pod, since there is nothing inside you can service.

Upgrades, spare pods and sensible alternatives

If this kit nearly fits what you want but something nags, there are three natural next steps, depending on what is bothering you.

The first is to stay in the family and keep a spare. Matching replacement pods are listed under prefilled vape pods, and keeping one fruity and one cooler or drier flavour on hand is how many regular vapers avoid flavour fatigue. It also saves you being caught out mid-week with an empty pod and no replacement.

The second is to move to a refillable system. If you like the idea of nicotine-free vaping but want to pick your own liquids, refillable vape pods let you fill the pod yourself and swap flavours whenever you like. You give up some of the plug-and-play convenience, and you take on a little more cleaning and topping up, but you gain freedom of choice. Bottled 0mg liquids, including short-fill bottles, are the usual route there.

The third is a change of strength. If you try 0mg and find it does not hold your interest, the Pro 12 line has pods at 10mg and 20mg, and the same battery unit takes them. That is a more modest step than changing devices, and it is worth remembering that you are not locked into the strength you began with.

It is also fair to say when a different product altogether is the better answer. If you want a single-use device with nothing to charge, a disposable is simpler. If you want something with no vapour at all, nicotine pouches and heated tobacco are separate categories with their own rules, and they are not a like-for-like swap for a pod kit. Our team is happy to point you in the right direction if you are unsure which route fits.

Whatever you choose, compare the price per pod and the rating rather than the headline price on the box. A cheap device with expensive pods can cost more over a month than a dearer one with cheap pods, and the arithmetic is quick to do.

Delivery, age checks and what happens if something is wrong

Orders over £20 ship free within the UK, which a single kit at £8.99 will not reach by itself. Many customers add a spare pod or a second flavour to cross the threshold. Weekday orders placed before 4pm normally go out the same day, though rates and timings can change, so check the shipping page for current details before you rely on a date.

Vaping products are for adults aged 18 and over, and that includes nicotine-free items such as this one. Our age verification page explains the checks involved and what you may be asked to provide. If you are not yet 18, this is not a product for you, and we will not be able to complete the order.

We sell genuine product, and we describe each item by what it is. For a kit like this one, that means we tell you the flavour, the strength, the price and the puff rating, and we leave out specifications we cannot stand behind. If you want a detail that is not on the page, the leaflet in the box or a message to our team is the place to look.

A parcel can be knocked about on its way to you like any other. When it arrives, check the kit before you use it. Look for cracks, leaks or a damaged battery, and keep the outer packaging until you are satisfied. If something is wrong, tell us promptly with your order number and photographs. The sooner we hear, the easier it is to put right.

Finally, keep it out of reach of children and pets. Nicotine-free liquid is still liquid, batteries are still batteries, and a sealed pod is not a toy.