How e-smoking effects tastebuds

[wcnesmith]

Taste, not noticed yet.

But with smoking I end up with no sense of smell at all, and normally after a week of trying to give up the regular smokes the world is suddenly a very stinky place.

Ive been esmoking only for a few days now and I have started to notice smells returing to my world, so maybe taste will follow. Can only be a good sign

For what its worth, I do like spicy food, not to hot mind. But a well balanced indian curry is just amazing.

Yes, smells come back. I keep noticing really bad smells at my work going place to place. (I drive around for 12 hours straight) It was kind of nice not knowing about those smells though, lol. I am trying to keep positive about esmoking, but the smell sense coming back definitely is not a positive at the moment.

[Thunderkebabs]

Weird, after smoking e-cigs for a day or two my mouth felt like I've been smoking all night and couldn't taste anything. Something wrong?

[tonyph]

a large percentage of what we think of as taste is actualy smell. Thats why food tastes realy bland when we have a cold. I have noticed a sense of smell getting stronger after only a few days of vaping. It seems logical that what I think is taste will start to come back soon. So far vaping hasn't efected my appetite. I was hoping it would has I am prone to forgetting to eat and I need to put weight on. Would be interested if anybody can tell me the longer term effect on appetite.

[chewy7097]

I've been hardcore e-smoking for a week, off of real smokes for 5 days... Sense of taste and smell are beginning to return... It's good and bad...

[dnakr]

I remember when my taste and smell came back. I almost went back to smoking - LOL. I couldn't believe I never noticed it before.

[TropicalBob]

Funny -- but true -- thread. Before I quit cigarettes, I used to eat Dannon yogurt for its live bacteria benefits. It was bland stuff. Tasteless goop to me. After a few days off cigarettes, I could taste the yogurt. Sharp. Ugh. Like cheese I can't stand either. I no longer eat Dannon yogurt (eat frozen yogurt daily, however).

And I'm always first to smell anything. The world is indeed a stinky place and some women wear way too much perfume to cover the smell of smoke on their clothes.

a large percentage of what we think of as taste is actualy smell.

This is dead-on true. And that's why we do-it-yourselfers are looking for fragrance we can used in liquid. Fragrance like tobacco absolute. We need fragrant vapor and then we might actually taste some tobacco flavor. Right now, the essentially odorless vapor is no taste treat!

[Mommyshann]

And I'm always first to smell anything. The world is indeed a stinky place and some women wear way too much perfume to cover the smell of smoke on their clothes.

It's amazing how much perfume I've saved over the last month. Wow...why didn't any non-smokers ever tell me how much I overdid it with the perfume?!?! And my issue really wasn't trying to cover the smell of smoke on me...I couldn't smell the smoke on me. I also couldn't smell the perfume, so I thought I needed more.

[RhinoOne]

Wow. After smoking 30 cigarettes a day for over 25 years, I've switched to "digirettes" for the past two months. Taste is coming back fine, but I'm blown away by how sensitive I am now to tobacco odors on people's breath and clothes. Sometimes it gets so bad, I have to walk out of the room.

[zaphod]

True, true