You could, but I think that foodies do better at this. Non foodies just get frustrated
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You could, but I think that foodies do better at this. Non foodies just get frustrated
I've tried at least 80 flavors in the last two years .... I find myself right back where I started.
I have 3 that I vape and all are tobacco flavored. I did the fruits and deserts and it was fun for a while but all I really want is my nic with a slaying throat hit.
Don't worry about it if your getting by that the important thing.
And yes I think your taste will change over time.
I have 3 that I vape and all are tobacco flavored. I did the fruits and deserts and it was fun for a while but all I really want is my nic with a slaying throat hit.
Don't worry about it if your getting by that the important thing.
And yes I think your taste will change over time.
The searching for an "all day vape" thing stinks. compared to vaping, smoking had very limited options, so you found one that was good and stuck with it. but with vaping, you have thousands of vendor/flavor options, and with each one of those options is hundreds of PV choices, VV settings, PG/VG ratios, even the age of the liquid, all can greatly effect how that particular liquid tastes, so even when you find one you really like, just knowing the endless possibilities are out there you haven't tried makes the search endless.
I think if anything, it will work to your benefit that you're just not picky. You know what you want, you know what you need to get and it that in itself will save you even more money. There is still the chance you could come across some juice that will "wow" you and when that happens it's a great experience! Be glad your vaping, not smoking. Stay excited about that and stick to it. Good luck!
I kind of know what you mean. been vaping for 2+ years now and for the last 1.8 years Ive been Vaping Ultrapures 100% VG 36mg nicotine, unflavored e-liquid........ It does satisfy my nic fix, but can taste boring at times... Ive recently thought about getting some flavors, sort of as an after dinner vape...A dessert vape to satisfy my sweet tooth...
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I understand how you feel about the flavors. I've tried several tobacco flavors but the only one I like is Virginia because it's sweet. I got tired of spending money on samples, only to be disappointed with the flavors. I found that I did favor the berry-types and wanted to experiment. So I ordered some pure flavoring and mixed a few drops in with a 5mL bottle of menthol and I'm very happy with how it's going. However, I did end up ordering some sweetener to fine-tune some of the different berries. I've had fun testing the flavors and it's a lot cheaper than buying it pre-mixed. Hang in there and persevere!
I was like that for the first couple months and then I turned into the exact opposite. Once my taste buds came back alive I couldn't stand the taste of the liquids I had been vaping. Now I am extremely picky about the taste.
It does take a long time for taste to really fully return, at least it did for me. I had days where I couldn't taste a thing, especially in the beginning but also even months after being off analogs. I tried extra-flavor juices and still...eh, I couldn't get excited about any of them either. But eventually it got better, and i could taste everything, even the undertone flavors people talked about (which I thought were a myth, lol).
It just takes time. Also, it takes the right vaping setup...I personally find the eGo tanks to be real flavor-dampers, for example...if that's all i had to vape with i would indeed be just as well-off vaping straight nic with no flavor added, heh. Not sure what you're vaping on but don't be afraid to try some new things there as well.
It just takes time. Also, it takes the right vaping setup...I personally find the eGo tanks to be real flavor-dampers, for example...if that's all i had to vape with i would indeed be just as well-off vaping straight nic with no flavor added, heh. Not sure what you're vaping on but don't be afraid to try some new things there as well.
I'm in the midst of one of those days where my taste buds are doing Odd Things. That said, there's been some liquids that tasted like nothing, and some which most decidedly tasted good for me. I find that at present, a couple weeks off the cigs, stronger-flavored juices do it for me where the milder ones I simply can't taste -- so I'm using a lot of "extra-flavor" types, or sticking with ones which are more potent to begin with (Vermillion River's Kentucky Premium blends, for example, or tastes that have a slightly acidic kick like apple or orange). But it may change for you.
I don't think you have to be a "foodie" as much as you have to be willing to step out of what you think you'd normally enjoy. For instance, BWB's Dulce de Leche is not something I would have tried if I hadn't gone 'you know, I haven't tried any creamy flavors' and ordered it. Now it's a regular vape for me, if not an all-day one -- I wouldn't have expected that sweet flavors would appeal, but at least this one did. It's going to be different for everyone, though.
I don't think you have to be a "foodie" as much as you have to be willing to step out of what you think you'd normally enjoy. For instance, BWB's Dulce de Leche is not something I would have tried if I hadn't gone 'you know, I haven't tried any creamy flavors' and ordered it. Now it's a regular vape for me, if not an all-day one -- I wouldn't have expected that sweet flavors would appeal, but at least this one did. It's going to be different for everyone, though.
I've been at it for about a month now and have not quit smoking completly but have cut down by more than half. The only flavor that has really appealed to me is strawberry, I'm not even interested in tobacco flavors.
It's strange, when you start smoking you're not even looking for a flavor, I never even associated cigerettes as a "flavor". The difference between regular and menthol were just a difference it "hit" to me. So I am still searching for other juices I like and feel confident that sooner or later I will find it and completly kick the habbit.
It is frustrating though, I have about 20 juices and can tolerate about 5 of them but not for any length of time. The strawberry is great but gets old after a while. I say hang in there and someday you will find what works best, all you and I can do is try, anything is better than smoking.
Good luck.
It's strange, when you start smoking you're not even looking for a flavor, I never even associated cigerettes as a "flavor". The difference between regular and menthol were just a difference it "hit" to me. So I am still searching for other juices I like and feel confident that sooner or later I will find it and completly kick the habbit.
It is frustrating though, I have about 20 juices and can tolerate about 5 of them but not for any length of time. The strawberry is great but gets old after a while. I say hang in there and someday you will find what works best, all you and I can do is try, anything is better than smoking.
Good luck.
when I first started vaping I only wanted tabacco flavors...and yes I was disappointed not to find any I liked..I move onto sweets one like Pina Colada and Blueberry cheesecake etc..a recent vaping friend sent me a sample of Boba's Bounty I gotta say it a good tabacco vape...
I'm not a foodie by any means and feel as you do that staying off analogs is the primary consideration, so I'll smoke Totally Blah(tm) all day too if that's what it takes. I'm still hoping, though, to find at least a few juices that taste better than corn oil for longer than a few minutes, but as someone who finally quit a 45-yr smoking habit a little over a month ago, it's been a real struggle to find something that tastes good as opposed to barely tolerable.
One thing I've found is that I need to change flavors a lot, sometimes as often as every 5-10 minutes, as my few taste buds seem to rapidly go into overload mode and just completely shut down. When changing from one flavor to another, I've also found it helps to switch from one flavor type to another, e.g., from sweet to spicy, so that the type of taste buds that have been exercised by a particular flavor get a chance to rest. I've also found that I do better with simple, bold flavors such as Cignot's Black Ice (licorice/anise and menthol) and Jimmy Puffit (key lime) and Liberty Flights' Clove Black rather than the more subtle or complex juices. Unfortunately, though, even juices with a brash taste don't last more than 15 minutes without becoming tasteless and rotating among just a handful flavors doesn't help because apparently it can take hours for the taste buds involved in detecting each flavor to recover.
Another thing I learned today is that cleaning the atomizer can help perk things up. I've been using the eGo mega cylinder atomizers and cartridges but hadn't cleaned the attys yet despite using one for almost 2 weeks because they seemed to still be drawing well and have good vapor production. Today, though, I figured I should clean them just sort of on principle, so stopped and got some 100 proof vodka (the store was out of 151 proof Everclear and 191 proof can't be sold in California). I soaked the attys in the vodka for 1/2 hr, used a monoject 412 syringe with a tapering tip that I got from the vet a long time ago to squirt vodka through the hole on the battery end a few times, rinsed and blew them out, then dry burned them a few times and rinsed them again. Lo and behold, they had noticeably warmer vapor and improved flavor and throat hit after being cleaned, to the point that some new juice samples that had left me totally unimpressed the first time I tried them actually tasted pretty good, at least for a few minutes until they went blah like everything else. Anyway, that made me realize that although degradation of atty performance is a subtle process, over time it really adds up and so I need to develop the habit of cleaning them every few days.
So, yeah, it's definitely a frustrating process for us long-time (ex)smokers to find juices that actually taste like something better than vegetable oil and I can certainly understand why you don't want to spend time and energy and money on it. I'm just not at the point (yet?) where I'm willing to resign myself to smoking corn oil for the rest of my life.
One thing I've found is that I need to change flavors a lot, sometimes as often as every 5-10 minutes, as my few taste buds seem to rapidly go into overload mode and just completely shut down. When changing from one flavor to another, I've also found it helps to switch from one flavor type to another, e.g., from sweet to spicy, so that the type of taste buds that have been exercised by a particular flavor get a chance to rest. I've also found that I do better with simple, bold flavors such as Cignot's Black Ice (licorice/anise and menthol) and Jimmy Puffit (key lime) and Liberty Flights' Clove Black rather than the more subtle or complex juices. Unfortunately, though, even juices with a brash taste don't last more than 15 minutes without becoming tasteless and rotating among just a handful flavors doesn't help because apparently it can take hours for the taste buds involved in detecting each flavor to recover.
Another thing I learned today is that cleaning the atomizer can help perk things up. I've been using the eGo mega cylinder atomizers and cartridges but hadn't cleaned the attys yet despite using one for almost 2 weeks because they seemed to still be drawing well and have good vapor production. Today, though, I figured I should clean them just sort of on principle, so stopped and got some 100 proof vodka (the store was out of 151 proof Everclear and 191 proof can't be sold in California). I soaked the attys in the vodka for 1/2 hr, used a monoject 412 syringe with a tapering tip that I got from the vet a long time ago to squirt vodka through the hole on the battery end a few times, rinsed and blew them out, then dry burned them a few times and rinsed them again. Lo and behold, they had noticeably warmer vapor and improved flavor and throat hit after being cleaned, to the point that some new juice samples that had left me totally unimpressed the first time I tried them actually tasted pretty good, at least for a few minutes until they went blah like everything else. Anyway, that made me realize that although degradation of atty performance is a subtle process, over time it really adds up and so I need to develop the habit of cleaning them every few days.
So, yeah, it's definitely a frustrating process for us long-time (ex)smokers to find juices that actually taste like something better than vegetable oil and I can certainly understand why you don't want to spend time and energy and money on it. I'm just not at the point (yet?) where I'm willing to resign myself to smoking corn oil for the rest of my life.
I second this with one exception...it has to be a flavor that won't make me gag (I've encountered a few of them over the past year and a half). I could easily do flavorless as long as I got the nicotine.
One flavour I feel in love with was the apple pie from happyville vapour. When I ran through that I tried so many flavors as well. One I have been stalking up with is the almond ameretto(spelling?) From flavor crafters. If you like menthol then one called cool breeze from halo is really nice (this coming from someone who despises menthol analogue cigarette's)
Bare in mind as said so many times taste is subjective and this is just how I see it
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Bare in mind as said so many times taste is subjective and this is just how I see it
Lastly welcome to the forum!
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Sound to me like the bottom line is that you should not give up. There are so many options out there for everyone that it would seem to be about impossible for someone to not find something that they enjoy. As far as unflavored goes, if it makes you happy do it... 
I just opened a bottle of blueberry 24mg that has been lying around since the beginning. I thought I would hate it but it turns out it is fantastic, go figure.
I have found that with most juices I think I like they will be ok , but whenever I get a free sample that I would never have bought it turns out to be fantastic. So I guess, you just never know.
Thanks to everyone here, your support is more valuable than any quit smoking system in the world.
I have found that with most juices I think I like they will be ok , but whenever I get a free sample that I would never have bought it turns out to be fantastic. So I guess, you just never know.
Thanks to everyone here, your support is more valuable than any quit smoking system in the world.
I'm very glad that you wrote this. Sometimes, reading all this stuff, I think to myself "Self...remember... no e-juice is spot on...particularly tobacco flavors. And for those, you don't really want them to be!" I also remember that I was a leaf-burner for 30 years and cigs taste like crap and I smoked the same flavor day after day.
So... don't even worry about it. If a juice tastes OK for you, that's good enough. The whole juice flavor thing is really about variety and staying off analogs. Gives us former smokers something to OCD about (IMO). If you don't need to geek out over flavors, more power to you. Others find that switching flavors, making their own flavors, or obsessing over the next "good vape" keeps them focused on e-cigs.
Additionally, you're probably a great candidate for DIY e-juice too. DIY saves a lot of $$$, but isn't always "spot on" for flavor. The vendors spend a lot of time getting flavor profiles the way they want them. DIYers (for the most part) add a few drops of this and that and call it good. (No offense intended to those expert-DIYers out there...I keep it simple).
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I'm not on an elusive search for a perfect juice, either. I just want my nicotine and I just so happened to find that Vermillion River premium blends taste absolutely delicious to me, which is more of a bonus than anything. I still vape Dekang desert ship, as well. I'm not too elitist to give up Dekang just because its "chinese made" if it works for me. I just don't want to smoke and about the only requirement I have out of e-juice is that it doesn't taste like perfume. Other than that, I know I don't like "chocolate" flavors, I am not a big dessert eater, so those don't interest me, and I'm not really into throwing thirty flavors together and saying "whats this taste like?????" When i first joined I saw everyone raving about "RY4, gotta have some ry4" but I tried it, and don't like it. Point is...you can either find a suitable juice or spend a lot of money to find that "perfect juice" or maybe get lucky and find it relatively soon.
I've heard decent things about VR's classic blend tobacco as well, those may be the juices you wanna try, as well as several of dekangs tobacco flavors.
I've heard decent things about VR's classic blend tobacco as well, those may be the juices you wanna try, as well as several of dekangs tobacco flavors.
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