A Question for "Brand Loyal" Ex-Smokers in Regards to Vaping

[The Cloud Minder]

Now when I was a smoker, I was emphatically a one brand man. I smoked Winstons, and really couldn't stand the taste of any other brand of cigarettes, and in fact, couldn't even stand the flavor difference in the 100's compared to my Kings. Marlboros left a cat litterbox aftertaste, and most others were equally foul, in fact about the only other ones I could tolerate were Camels, probably because they were made by the same company. I would most often suffer without (and get really angry) rather than smoke some other brand.

Fast forward to today.

I vape in rotation about 7 different juices, with another 8 or so that get some play once in a while. In fact, if I vape one flavor too long, even the most awesome ones, I get bored with it and would rather vape a less preferred juice if it is significantly different.

I am really interested in what other Ex-"Brand Loyal" smokers have to say, as people who would smoke any brand won't really help with my understanding, ...

... so ...

Why do I need so many different flavors of Vaping when I was militant about one taste tobacco?

 

[FattyJ]

Because taste is so subjective I feel only you can answer this question. Part of the answer may be that since you have quit smoking your taste buds have "woken up" again and demand more variety in flavor.

 

[tj99959]

I smoked Camels, and would do without before I would smoke a "litterbox". So very much the same. With vaping, I always have at least three contrasting flavors going because my taste buds will NUMB to any flavor if I try to vape just one.

 

[wasteyrself]

I don't even know why I was loyal to specific cigarette brands, I could barely tell the difference in the end. There were brands I was comfortable with and brands I wasn't, but it never coalesced into any bigger idea of taste than "stale cigarette awfulness" in the end. There are a few juices I really love but I always keep the juices rotating so I don't get too sick of one.

 

[The Cloud Minder]

It just doesn't make sense to me.

I guess I should add though, ... it took 3 months of vaping before I could stand any but tobacco flavored e-juice, and those were just tolerable.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Because taste is so subjective I feel only you can answer this question. Part of the answer may be that since you have quit smoking your taste buds have "woken up" again and demand more variety in flavor.

From my experience it is vaping that kills taste buds. Fortunately taste receptor cells can restore. Until the next case of vaper tongue.

 

[Cliven]

I think for me it is the taste and variety of juice flavors that you can vape. In regards to smoking, cigarettes all taste pretty much the same, tobacco flavor with the option of menthol. I never really cared for taste when smoking but did it because I was addicted. Now that I am vaping, I don't have to stick to one 'tobacco' flavor, I have so much to choose from. Since I started vaping, I have never had the urge for a tobacco flavor and sure I never will.

 

[BraveNewWorld]

I was brand loyal no 100's here always just regulars. But vaping I need quite a few juices in rotation, I think it's because it's your taste buds in play here. You can't eat the same thing all day because we wouldn't get a variety of vitamins and nutrients, I think that's biologically necessary for survival to always eat a variety thus ensuring we get nutrients available in all the different food groups.

No one started smoking because it tasted good the first time. The high was perfect in my brand, wasn't the taste, it was the size of the filter the dense factor of the perfect smoke. I don't think it was ever taste.

 

[The Cloud Minder]

I was brand loyal no 100's here always just regulars. But vaping I need quite a few juices in rotation, I think it's because it's your taste buds in play here. You can't eat the same thing all day because we wouldn't get a variety of vitamins and nutrients, I think that's biologically necessary for survival to always eat a variety thus ensuring we get nutrients available in all the different food groups.

No one started smoking because it tasted good the first time. The high was perfect in my brand, wasn't the taste, it was the size of the filter the dense factor of the perfect smoke. I don't think it was ever taste.

I think for me it was BOTH.

I know if I ever found or concocted a ejuice that tasted exactly like Winston smoke, I'd probably vape that almost exclusively.

Call me a joker, but I really loved that taste.

 

[DC2]

I vastly preferred Camel Lights to any other brand.

However I vastly prefer to vape different flavors and switch it up frequently.
I don't know why that is my vaping preference, but some of the theories presented here make some sense.

Especially the one about comparing vaping with eating food.
I think it has more similarities with that than it does with inhaling burning tobacco smoke.

I've often said there are many (MANY) foods I just LOVE to eat.
But I would even get tired of Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo if I tried to eat it all the time.

I've known people who don't seem to care all that much about the taste of food, and eat primarily to survive.
But I think food is one of the most wonderful things on this planet, and one of life's greatest pleasures.

My father used to make spaghetti with a sauce made of V8 juice and wheat germ.
I'd be willing to bet if he was a vaper he wouldn't care what flavor he vaped.

 

[Foggyroomz]

Camel smoker for 30 years an occasional Winston if no Camel's available, only because Marlboro's gave me migraine headaches never could handle boro's and maybe that is why they went through so many Marlboro men LOL! I find that I enjoy switching up only because the there are so many flavor combinations available and some shops will do custom flavors for you of your own creation. That and the fact that I can actually taste things that I haven't tasted for 30 years I'm in taste bud heaven I don't want to stop trying new flavors ever, if I could get a job as an E-juice taste-tester I would be the happiest guy on the planet. I tasted Camel for 30 years now I taste things the way they should have tasted and man did pumpkin pie only get better looking forward to tomorrow like never before. I guess I don't want to limit myself to another droll flavored habit day in and day out and why should I when I have an overflowing cornucopia of flavor at my disposal. Vape strong and Live long people, I finally understand the skittles commercial of taste the rainbow only times infinity.

 

[Bassnorma]

Now when I was a smoker, I was emphatically a one brand man. I smoked Winstons, and really couldn't stand the taste of any other brand of cigarettes, and in fact, couldn't even stand the flavor difference in the 100's compared to my Kings. Marlboros left a cat litterbox aftertaste, and most others were equally foul, in fact about the only other ones I could tolerate were Camels, probably because they were made by the same company. I would most often suffer without (and get really angry) rather than smoke some other brand.

Fast forward to today.

I vape in rotation about 7 different juices, with another 8 or so that get some play once in a while. In fact, if I vape one flavor too long, even the most awesome ones, I get bored with it and would rather vape a less preferred juice if it is significantly different.

I am really interested in what other Ex-"Brand Loyal" smokers have to say, as people who would smoke any brand won't really help with my understanding, ...

... so ...

Why do I need so many different flavors of Vaping when I was militant about one taste tobacco?

I was the same, one brand only. I had to give up the idea of my tobacco flavor because I was that picky. Odds are you will never find (even if you mix it yourself) that exact blend of flavorful poison in an e-liquid. Once I embraced the fact that I could abandon the concept of nicotine tasting like tobacco, I was home free.

Really? would you rather inhale something tasty or something that doesn't come close to an acquired taste; that if truth be told tastes like...you know...

For that reason, I have tried many flavors and I switch up to keep myself from getting bored. I have found some that I really love and some not so much. But I now view it as a taste adventure rather than a quest to find the taste of my cig preference.

 

[Spidey2011]

i was a winston or camel crush bold guy. Only one tobacco juice I can stand, but Ive already got a cabinet full of other flavors. Lol.

 

[Krashman Von Stinkputin]

I was the same way.

I still prefer "gourmet" tobacco flavors but vape many other flavors as well.

I chalk this vaping a variety of flavors to the fact that I can now ACTUALLY TASTE FLAVORS and therefore enjoy them.
Smoking was simply a (disgusting) means to an end, while vaping is specifically for FLAVOR.

I used to think wine drinkers were just putting on airs when talking of "notes", "hints", "finishes" in the taste of a wine. Same with cigar or pipe smokers.

Turns out the problem was that my tongue had simply become a (mostly) useless piece of shoe leather in my mouth and that the "tobacco" I was smoking hardly had any of the original flavor left in it--replaced by so many chemicals and additives.

Personally, I love being able to now experience so many wonderful---and some poor--flavors. It's part of the fun!

 

[Rule62]

The way I see it, all cigarettes tasted like crap. All we did was pick a brand that tasted the least crappy.

 

[rondasherrill]

I'm the opposite. I was a brand loyal Marlboro smoker for a decade, and the only juice I vape is menthol unflavored. Then again it's pretty much commonly accepted knowledge that unflavored e-liquid is basically immune to vaper's tongue, which I have found to be true.

 

[Ed_C]

I'm the opposite. I was a brand loyal Marlboro smoker for a decade, and the only juice I vape is menthol unflavored. Then again it's pretty much commonly accepted knowledge that unflavored e-liquid is basically immune to vaper's tongue, which I have found to be true.

So how can it have menthol and be unflavored?

 

[rondasherrill]

So how can it have menthol and be unflavored?

Lol well, menthol is the only thing resembling a flavoring. Menthol unflavored as opposed to menthol fruit or drink flavors.