I've only been off analogs for 6 days, so maybe my tastebuds haven't recovered properly yet to taste the flavor in the vapes. I don't really know what the flavors are "supposed' to taste like.
Despite all the talk about "taste bud recovering", I believe the latter is more the real problem for new vaporers (what is a vape supposed to taste like.).
I don't buy the broken taste bud theory only because, even as a smoker, I had super sensitive taste buds as a result of eating fresh organic foods with no "covering" flavors (ketchup, salt, cheese, butter, and all the stuff people put on their food). I would normally eat a bowl of fresh string beans with nothing on it, and tasted it perfectly..........while other people (whose taste buds ARE broken from coverings and processed foods) who weren't even smokers couldn't taste my foods.
When I first started vaping, I didn't know what it was "supposed to taste like." It's nothing at all like a cigarette. And it's nothing at all like eating the food, i.e. eating lemon meringue pie
isn't the the same as vaping lemon merigue pie.
Therefore, I have always felt that it is more of a *perceptual* problem, not a broken taste bud problem, that makes things difficult for new vaporers.
My advice to you is to just get used to vaping first. Just vape every day and it will start to make sense to you.
There was
nothing wrong with my taste buds-------- only that the experience of inhaling what are essentially FOOD FLAVORS, i.e. originally made for flavoring food, candy and baked goods, took a little getting used to.
Hope this makes sense to someone.
Vaping is not the same as eating. Vaping is not the same as drinking. Vaping is not the same as smoking.
I guess it can be compared to anything that the brain needs to 're-translate'. If you've ever gotten your first pair of progressive lenses, for instance. Or had a visual or dental problem corrected.....the brain takes a while to 'learn' how to deal with the correction because it's somethign new. Progressive lenses had me falling down stairs and bumping into things for a while.
