This is just a theory that I believe is plausible, based on my studies in anatomy, physiology, human nutrition, organic chemistry, biology, and genetics.
We begin to develop our senses of taste and smell at a very young age, around the same time that we begin to have concrete memory, which is usually around the age of four years. It is earlier for some, and later for others, of course, but four years of age is about the time when we start to have definite opinions about those "flavors", combining taste and smell into a working duet. Flavors are very simple and fragmented at first, but as we begin to taste and smell, (and not always both at the same time) hundreds of combinations of flavors, we form various likes and dislikes. Some dislikes can be slight, and others can be very intolerable, and make an immediate negative impression on us. The very same goes for the likes. These impressions are far more sophisticated than just our senses of taste and smell, however. They also incorporate whether we feel comfort at the time, or if we feel sad, or if we are lonely, or even if we feel a sense of belonging. Our feelings become intertwined with our tastes.
It is those very first tastes that include a feeling of happiness mixed in, whether or not we are aware of it, that make up our favorite flavors from a very early age. What's more, we will keep those favorite flavors with us until we become quite elderly, and we are no longer able to discern subtle flavors anymore.
I believe that we are more successful in smoking cessation when we are able to choose a "favorite" set of flavors in our e-liquids. I have noticed that out of all the people I know who vape, very few choose tobacco flavored e-liquids. I believe that it is because tobacco is an "acquired", or learned taste. Acquired tastes are tastes that we tolerate until we become used to them. 99% of us didn't grow up around tobacco farms in the south, thus making tobacco flavors foreign to us when we are young.
Every person that I have converted successfully from cigarettes to e-cigs,(and I put that figure at 64 people to date), have gotten off of cigarettes totally when they started using e-liquids that were comprised of their favorite flavors in their lives as a whole. I noticed that most of them, including myself, tend to always circle back to those flavors that they have loved their whole lives.
The manufacturers know this. They are not targeting children with these flavors, they are targeting the tastes that we keep with us from childhood because it works.
We begin to develop our senses of taste and smell at a very young age, around the same time that we begin to have concrete memory, which is usually around the age of four years. It is earlier for some, and later for others, of course, but four years of age is about the time when we start to have definite opinions about those "flavors", combining taste and smell into a working duet. Flavors are very simple and fragmented at first, but as we begin to taste and smell, (and not always both at the same time) hundreds of combinations of flavors, we form various likes and dislikes. Some dislikes can be slight, and others can be very intolerable, and make an immediate negative impression on us. The very same goes for the likes. These impressions are far more sophisticated than just our senses of taste and smell, however. They also incorporate whether we feel comfort at the time, or if we feel sad, or if we are lonely, or even if we feel a sense of belonging. Our feelings become intertwined with our tastes.
It is those very first tastes that include a feeling of happiness mixed in, whether or not we are aware of it, that make up our favorite flavors from a very early age. What's more, we will keep those favorite flavors with us until we become quite elderly, and we are no longer able to discern subtle flavors anymore.
I believe that we are more successful in smoking cessation when we are able to choose a "favorite" set of flavors in our e-liquids. I have noticed that out of all the people I know who vape, very few choose tobacco flavored e-liquids. I believe that it is because tobacco is an "acquired", or learned taste. Acquired tastes are tastes that we tolerate until we become used to them. 99% of us didn't grow up around tobacco farms in the south, thus making tobacco flavors foreign to us when we are young.
Every person that I have converted successfully from cigarettes to e-cigs,(and I put that figure at 64 people to date), have gotten off of cigarettes totally when they started using e-liquids that were comprised of their favorite flavors in their lives as a whole. I noticed that most of them, including myself, tend to always circle back to those flavors that they have loved their whole lives.
The manufacturers know this. They are not targeting children with these flavors, they are targeting the tastes that we keep with us from childhood because it works.
so the magic is already cast and have no choice but to love it. 
