Analog tasting like s**t???

[unkuser]

Today I got stuck at Miami airport and ran out of power. So I bought a pack of analogs. Wha I used to smoke. Ie marlboro menthol lights. Tried smoking them an could not have more than a few puffs. They tasted like crap. Like the smoke from burning paper.

I could not even finish one of them. Is this normal? Or is because of the gliceryn coat on my tongue? They really tasted bad. I was smoking them for 15 years!!

Sorry for mispelling on my phone.

 

[Yosam]

I have heard this from many many vapers. My wife has only been vaping for 2 weeks and she also tried an analog cig today. She said it tasted like crap and made her dizzy and sick. Don't think I will test this myself. 3 weeks in and I have not been off analog for this long in 10 years.

Yosam

 

[Jherek]

Today I got stuck at Miami airport and ran out of power. So I bought a pack of analogs. Wha I used to smoke. Ie marlboro menthol lights. Tried smoking them an could not have more than a few puffs. They tasted like crap. Like the smoke from burning paper.

I could not even finish one of them. Is this normal? Or is because of the gliceryn coat on my tongue? They really tasted bad. I was smoking them for 15 years!!

Sorry for mispelling on my phone.

Hi,

This reaction seems to be typical; e cig smoker tries ....-log for first time in a few days and is horrified at the taste. I haven't had an analog since July 23rd. I'm trying to hold out as long as I can, so as to be able to fully taste the horribleness.

 

[chris in va]

My friend reports the same thing. She's only been using her 510 for 3 days but tried smoking a Marlboro ultra-light and threw it out the window halfway through. "It makes me sick now".

 

[Parmacrafter]

I tried to light an analog after 2 days of nothing but vaping. I bearly got it lit with minimal smoke in my mouth. It was just plain NASTY!!!! I couldn't even inhale the smoke. My only thought at the time was "OMG, how did I ever do this on purpose"? Now after roughly 6 weeks and no analogs at all I can bearly stand the smell of a person who has been smoking. But I finad all this very useful to me. Every smoker I walk by reminds me of why I quit. This alone pretty much keeps the cravings at bay.

 

[mintee]

Yeah, I will occasionally smoke part of an analog when I'm drinking. Usually it's just "Bumming a drag" from a friend, and I taste it and instantly think, UGH. I smoked for 16ish years, and now, I can't even take a co-worker going out for a real smoke and then talking to me face to face.

Yeah, it's pretty disgusting what we've done in the past. Heh

 

[Gunstar]

Same thing with me, had an analog after about two weeks of vaping and it did not taste good. I was really surprised, I wasn't even planning on quitting when I bought my 510 but now have no desire to go back.

 

[vapourhead]

omg

I've been in tears -- recently -- because I ran out of liquid, and cracked after a day and bought a pack of Export 'A' lights -- my braaand -- and I smoked one, it was gross. I smoked another -- because it's usually ok by the second one after I've quit in the past -- It totally tasted like couch. My throat closed up, my mouth was dry, and tears were running down my face.

A deeply baffling moment.

 

[jimik]

I've been spoiled by my PV and juices. Analogs are not so bad, but I prefer the taste of my juice.

 

[Tattan]

Yes. Analogs taste extremely bitter and harsh now. They started tasting bad within a couple days of starting vaping. So I did fewer analogs and more vaping, and then there were days where I'd just not get around to doing any analogs. Then there was doing the analogs just to get rid of them before they went stale because I'd spent good money for them.

At present I don't have any analogs. Haven't felt the need to buy any lately. Daughter and her bf visited last night. Her bf smokes. He offered me a regular cigarette, and I actually wasn't even tempted. Not like I'm feeling deprived, y'know?

I've found I don't actually like the tobacco flavoured e-juice. I buy unflavoured and flavour it with something like caramel or butterscotch or peppermint. Sometimes I do zero nicotine fluids because I don't always feel the craving for the nicotine. No point vaping nicotine when you aren't actually wanting it, I figure.

I smoked analogs for over 30 yrs. Pack a day plus. Full flavour 100s. I didn't start vaping with any intention of quitting smoking. It just sounded neat, so I wanted to try it, and I liked it. I'm still kind of getting my head around the idea that I may have quit analogs or at least be coming up on that point.

But I won't go on about analogs being "disgusting" and etc. I'm not going to become an "anti". After being someone who felt they enjoyed smoking for 30+ yrs, I'd feel like too much of a hypocrite. And I feel it's possible to quit something without becoming a total pain in the ASH (pointed pun intended) to the people who haven't.

 

[808hustlin]

Yeah Been there done that, no more analogs for me. I've tried 3 times cause of power issues with my ecig couldn't get more than half way thru without saying damn this taste like $H!t. I bought my cousin who lives with me a starter kit so i could stop smelling analogs at my house even the smell makes me sick now. If this is how it always smell and tasted I don't know what the hell i was thinking all those years.

 

[Debbie Lee]

Same here, I weaned my self off Natural a American Spirits while vaping. I stopped smoking cigs. May 1st. The second weekend after being off cigs. I bummed a marlboro light off a friend and got dizzy ,nauseated, chest pain's, and cold sweats!!!!!. 8-o I looked at her and said I wont do that again,and said now I'm glad I invested in the ecig. Also while smoking cigs. I would not smoke until I was in my car on the way to work and every time I lit the first cig of the day I would get dizzy and nauseated. This has never happened with the ecig .

I smoked a pack a day sometimes two for 37 years.

 

[Bek76]

The one thing I never noticed as a smoker, is the feeling of having tar in my mouth. It's just absolutely disgusting to me now. God bless vapor.

 

[metapuff]

i'm excited to hear all these stories. been off analogs for about 2+weeks now and don't feel the need or desire to go back.

does make me curious though.....not that i would buy a pack..... unless all my e cigs went dead and had to wait.

 

[BigJimW]

I could not even finish one of them. Is this normal?

Short answer if yes, it is. Welcome to a healthier lifestyle.

 

[HaploVoss]

+1 to above posts...

I've been vaping for nearly 2 years now. I think it was maybe 6 months ago or so that both of my batteries were dead, I was on the road, and my car charger died. I wasn't going to be home for another 9 hours so I thought no biggie, I'll just buy a pack of my old Ultra lights - a few regular cigs won't kill me.

OMG - I just lit up and took a big ol' drag like the old days and I mean it took all I had not to puke on the spot!! lol

I was really surprised. To this day I much prefer my e-cig over regulars anymore. Not to mention the fact that I don't wake up with the morning hacks and that 'keep the lungs clear' cough every so often through the day... that in itself is just priceless.

Take care,
- Hap

 

[Applejackson]

Same reaction here. I used to smoke Old Gold's. Harsh, very strong flavor, really liked the kick I could feel in my lungs. Now I can't even take a drag from an ultra-light. It's awful. I don't think it's due to any "coating" (which some people have reported, but I get no hint of). I think it's more like if you had nothing but frozen pizza from Idaho all your life, then one day you had real Brooklyn brick-oven pizza. You could force yourself to go back, but why would you want to? You'd hate it.

Today on the bus a woman sat next to me holding a cigarette she just clipped to get on. It almost made me throw up, but I wasn't about to say anything because I'm not going to be one of those people. I used to do the same thing sometimes (though I'd usually try to stick it in something so the smell wasn't so bad out of courtesy). It was even a bad smell when I smoked. Now I notice the smell on people who come back into the bar after a smoke and it's bad, but at least it dissipates eventually. I did consider telling her about the e-cig, but I didn't feel like getting into it on the bus in the morning. She was a nurse!

 

[Nepenthy]

Its definitely not the pv or the juice that is making them taste bad. The only time I was able to quit for any length of time, 2 months, was after I got out of the hostpital. Walking through the lobby with my ... hanging out of a gown, wheeling my IV behind me, to go out and smoke with all the junkies in detox really made me examine how pathetic I was and so I quit.Wore multimple nicotine patches, had horrible night terrors, but did quit. Within a week I could smell a smoker from a mile away, and if I took a drag off someone in a stressful moment, it tasted like complete crap and I couldnt understand why I liked it in the first place. Of course, as soon as something really stressful happened, I started getting the camel light whisper....."smoke one and it will all be better." Started right back up again and didnt mind the taste because I was jones'n so bad.

If you can remember when you first started, didnt you wonder why in the hell people smoked that nasty crap? I sure did and kick myself everyday for not listening to my friend who told me not to start or Id never be able to quit. He was right, I could not quit even though I knew they were killing me, setting a bad example for my kids...etc. Its pretty bad when you cant even stop for your kids. I turned my life completely around the day I cut my oldest sons cord, except for smoking cigs. Went from waist length dreadlocks, ratty clothes, smoking herb as soon as I woke up and every minute past that, trying every drug that came my way...etc, to a manager at a photography plant, eating healthy, dressing well, short hair and being very responsible in less than a weeks time. But still couldnt stop smoking. (Dreads and smoking herb isnt bad imo, I really miss my grounding antennaes, so dont get me wrong, just trying to illustrate the extreme change I went through.

Wow! Bit of a rant there, sorry. Bottom line is cigs are very nasty, vaping just gives us a break from them and we realize just how gross they are after our taste buds, sense of smell, and lungs are starting to recover. Hope you remember how nasty those were this time around. At just over 2.5 months without a smoke, the concept of lighting a smoke and inhaling it seems completely foreign to me, and thats just how I like it and plan to stay. Good luck everyone.

 

[span]

Started vaping in July, took one puff off a parliament in august and handed it right back... couldn't even begin to THINK of finishing it. The first taste wasn't so bad, but the aftertaste made me gag. Don't think I could ever go back to analogs.

 

[esccozar]

I have been off of analogs for 3 months now and after one puff of an analog start to gag. While an ecig is so much different than an analog, all of the available flavors, the satisfying vapor and just feeling better make it worth while.

On a side note I was outside of a club on Broadway street in San Francisco and in my five years of smoking never noticed how much the area smelled like stale piss. While that was gross, I am glad my sense of smell is coming back!