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SMOK Novo Eco Pod Kit

With vaping trying at last to be more environmentally responsible, we love the concept of the new SMOK Novo Eco

by Stephen Gitsham
Jun 9, 2025

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The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC) sent this SMOK Novo Eco pod kit over for me to have a look at.

With the recent disposable ban coming in, there are a lot of simple pod kits coming out to try and make things easier for disposable only users to switch over to a more traditional type of pod kit. SMOK have released this Novo Eco kit as part of their efforts to keep people on the vapes and off the ciggies, and it’s a damn affordable effort at that.

The SMOK Novo Eco is a small, squished pen style kit that has an internal but removeable 1000mAh battery in it. There are no screens but there is a small LED light bar on the front to indicate the battery level and they look nice when you take a draw. It takes Novo, Novo 2 and Novo 2X pods, along with the new spring loaded refill (SLR) pods, which have a spring system in the top to help stop any leaking. The kit goes up to a maximum of 30W but that will depend on the resistance of pod you put in it as there’s no way to adjust the wattage. It also has two different modes, soft and hard, which you can switch between with the little button on the front.

In the box you get:

1 SMOK Novo Eco
1 SMOK Novo Pod (0.8ohm)
1 User Manual

So, not much to unpack really.

Design wise, there’s an airflow adjuster on one side, so you can RDL with the lower resistance pods available, and a USB Type C slot on the other side, so you can charge the kit standing up. The whole kit is nicely rounded for comfort, and there’s the SMOK and Novo branding on the front, along with Novo ECO branding on the back. There’s a small button on the front as well, underneath the LED light strip, but this only serves to turn the kit on or adjust the soft or hard modes as the kit is draw activated only. One of the features of this kit, and what gives it it’s eco branding, is that you can remove the battery to dispose of it safely when it finally runs down. I have to say it’s nice to have an eco branded kit that is actually eco-friendly for once, rather than just have an eco mode that uses less power. The battery comes out easily and I’m hoping this means there’s scope to buy a new one to replace it when it does finally give up the ghost.

The pod you get with the kit is the 0.8ohm version and it fits in with nice strong magnets so it won’t skid across the floor if you drop the thing. Filling up is easy enough as well, you snap the mouthpiece off and there’s a red marker on the fill hole. Put the nib of your bottle in and the spring allows you to fill the pod, then snaps back automatically once you remove the nib to prevent any leaking. I can see from the marketing bumf that you can get 0.4ohm, 0.6ohm, 0.8ohm and 1.0ohm pods to be able to vape whatever way you like, and I can also see that you can buy all resistances in the SLR version as well.

In use there’s not too much to say. I filled up the pod, waited a bit, and then tried to have a draw before turning it on using the button before actually getting a draw on my next attempt. I’m not much of a manual reader and it shows! The kit starts in soft mode, and I felt that was a bit soft for me personally on the 0.8ohm pod, but when I turned on hard mode with two clicks of the button, it really came alive and I got a lovely loose MTL, which also serves as a decent RDL draw with the airflow fully open. With the airflow fully closed, it’s a decently tight draw, but there is a very slight buzz that you notice more when there’s less air going through the airflow hole. It’s not an issue for me, as a few pod kits tend to buzz slightly these days. I’m not sure if it’s the airflow or the electrics inside.

Final Thoughts

The SMOK Novo Eco is a very basic device, which is perfect for those coming from using disposables. I love the fact that you can recycle the battery easily, and I do like the draw of it on hard mode with the 0.8ohm pod in.

The other bonus is the price, TECC are selling this kit for £7.99. That’s an outrageous price to me, given that a few years ago similar types of kits were being punted for about £20, but technology has moved on and the prices for basic, but decent pod kits have gone down drastically, and this is a simple but decent pod kit.

Thanks again to TECC for sending the SMOK Novo Eco over to try out.

Pros

Cheap as chips
Good range of airflow
No leaks from the pod
Recyclable battery

Cons

Slight buzz when you take a draw

Stephen Gitsham

Reviewer at POTV

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I was a very militant smoker for many years…why would I stop doing the only thing I had left that I liked doing? Then I fell into vaping in 2017. My wife bought a cheap kit off from Amazon that stopped working and I took it to a local vape shop to see what they could do with it. An hour later and full of new knowledge about watts, ohms, and juice strength, I headed home with a new nautilus mini tank for her and raved to her about the helpful guy in the shop. I must have bored her with all my new found information. I tried her vape that night, and a week later bought my own kit. Then I found POTV and the amazingly helpful and generous people on it. A month later I was making my own (disgusting) vape juice, and a month after that I was winding coils for my new RDA. Six years on and I'm much better at making juice, and I now have no money but lots of shiny mods and tanks