Okay, I cannot let this pass....
Y'know what? I think they would find 'cigarette styled PVs' to be as effective for some people as some think chunk of metal with weird-looking attachments. If you're looking to quit but enjoy the feeling & motions, you want the replacement to be as much like the real thing as possible. That means the device looks like a cigarette, feels like a cigarette, is as easy to use as a cigarette as well as mimicing the drag. This worked for me and many others.
If you'd told me I had to buy all these individual bits, mix my own juices and fill my own juice holding recepticles, no way would I have succeeded. Thick chunks of metal with tanks & DTs, having to press a button every time I want a drag, again I would not have succeeded.
Sure now I have manual batts, I also have VV egos and a provari. I love tanks so I use manual batts - and my favourites are still 'stick' batts. If you get a good quality one with good cartos & flavours, I think they can be a better option for a noob than anything fancier.
Okay. Thank you for listening. Katz will now climb down from her hobby-horse and promises not to respond to another swipe at 'cigarette styled PVs' for at least 6 weeks.