Oh how perspective changes....

[eda123]

When i was a smoker... three months ago i was leaving a movie with my wife, and saw some teenage kid vaping in the parking lot with what appeared to be a HUGE device on a lanyard. I thought how rediculous... i asked him what it was, he told me, and i was thinking "so why the damn lightsaber?". He then said he was vaping a blueberry flavor. I laughed.. WHO THE HELL WOULD WANT TO "SMOKE" BLUEBERRY?! How dumb!!! When i smoke, i want my Marlboro Lights flavor. Nothing else. Dumb kid...

Well fast forward to today. Im carrying my Provari with extension cap, Protank 3 on top vaping Booberry from Fuzion Vapor.

Oh how opinions change once you climb aboard...

 

[Grad]

I think that's a pretty common experience for most vapers when they start. Who would think something that doesn't really taste like a cig would actually be able to stand in for it quite nicely? I still remember my friend telling me that he had just ordered a peach flavored juice and thinking, "ewww, why would you want to smoke peaches?"

Of course now I vape stuff like cupcakes, snickerdoodles, and creme brulee almost exclusively.

 

[FearTX]

Same, when my son started this 3 years ago and tried to get me on board I thought he was silly for "smoking" grape lollipop. A year later I buckled and started vaping on and off with cigalikes and ego stuff but stuck to tobacco flavors. Fast forward 2 years and I bought a light saber, got myself set up with 15 or so non tobacco flavors. I haven't touched a cigarette in a month and a half.

I have Sucker Punch, Pluid and a citrus blend loaded up in tanks on the desk for work today

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

For me vaping has always about the throat-hit, and replicating the act/sensation of actually smoking, as far as the hand-to-mouth-and-inhaling aspect of things. Some liquids, even if they're of equal nicotine strengths, provide a better throat hit than others, and those are the flavors I gravitate to. From day one I never thought of any flavors as just plain 'silly', I was curious about all of them, even if the liquid was 'Rotten Banana Peel' flavor.

 

[n3me51s]

I couldn't agree with you more!!!

When I started vaping a little over a year ago, I used only tobacco flavors. I believe I made the transition with 24mg Scorpion by BonZai e liquids. I believe I also used a few bottles of RY4. Today I use all sorts of non-traditional tobacco flavors. i.e. Carmel popcorn, caramelized banana, rainbow sherbet, and my favorite alien blood, just to name a few.

I couldn't agree more with that the tides have changed, as I thought vaping anything other than tobacco would be disgusting, and when I first started, I had a few buddies give me a few toots of theirs, and I couldn't stand it… Now, that's all I vape, and can't get enough!!!

 

[JollyRogers]

Totally reversed for me. I started vaping 4 years ago this month. I noticed most vapors tended to be "older" and even my son who smoked said it looked ridiculous and wasn't for him etc… Then 3 years later @Vapercon I noticed how young the crowd had gotten and when at work a young Marine came up to me in the smoke pit and complimented me on my nice Vaporizer… and my son is vaping a light saber

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

Oh...and on a side-note, ironically, I've never vaped any tobacco-flavored e-liquids. I started out with a Java-Jolt flavor, and went from there. Maybe, even if it was subconsciously, I wanted my vaping experience to never taste like an actual cigarette, because, at that point in my life, I really was sick and tired of smoking, after 31 years of it.

 

[Baditude]

I had never smoked tobacco flavors, smoking primarily Marlboro Menthol Lights. When I began vaping, I used a Menthol Ice flavor which was close enough to the analogs to keep me happy for a month or so. Then I started trying the fruit and coffee flavors and found my new niche. I went on a tobacco flavored kick for about a month during the summer, but I've returned to mostly fruit and coffee flavors.

I was like a lot of novices, I started with a cigalike starter kit. Within a couple of weeks I realized I wanted a mod. Went from a couple of mechanicals to a Provari in just 3 months and now the only mods that I use are variable voltage. I think nothing of what others might think about my "water pipe" or "hookah pipe".

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

I had never smoked tobacco flavors, smoking primarily Marlboro Menthol Lights. When I began vaping, I used a Menthol Ice flavor which was close enough to the analogs to keep me happy for a month or so. Then I started trying the fruit and coffee flavors and found my new niche. I went on a tobacco flavored kick for about a month during the summer, but I've returned to mostly fruit and coffee flavors.

I was like a lot of novices, I started with a cigalike starter kit. Within a couple of weeks I realized I wanted a mod. Went from a couple of mechanicals to a Provari in just 3 months and now the only mods that I use are variable voltage. I think nothing of what others might think about my "water pipe" or "hookah pipe".

Actually, different coffee flavors are my favorite niche' as far as e-liquids go, and, believe it or not, just 'plain old, cheap Hangsen' is my favorite. I also love peanut butter 'anything'.

 

[n3me51s]

Ooh… I've always been scared or nervous about trying peanut butter e-juice. Not sure why, but can't bring myself to purchase any. I love peanut butter. Eat it all the time… even straight from the jar. Are peanut butter juices as close to or just as good as the real flavor? I'm worried I'll hate it or vape myself away from eating the real thing…

 

[fernicus]

I was definitely attracted to the idea of "smoking" food flavors. I always wanted my cigs flavored, I always had a bottle of vanilla, coconut or chocolate Tasty Puffs with me. So when I made the leap to vaping i was happy as a pig in mud. But it's hard sometimes to convince the smokers to try a flavor other than the tobacco flavors we offer at the shop i work at. Most of them don't try non-tobacco flavors until a few weeks into vaping.

 

[Grad]

Ooh… I've always been scared or nervous about trying peanut butter e-juice. Not sure why, but can't bring myself to purchase any. I love peanut butter. Eat it all the time… even straight from the jar. Are peanut butter juices as close to or just as good as the real flavor? I'm worried I'll hate it or vape myself away from eating the real thing…

It's probably one of those taste is subjective things. I'm a pb addict, and I've not been real fond of the pb and pb cookie vapes I've tried. I can say the same for chocolate. I guess they just aren't my thing for vaping, but trying them hasn't changed my passionate love for real chocolate or pb (my hips wish this wasn't the case ). I'd say just try some out if you're interested.

 

[patkin]

I did a whole lot of reading here before placing my first juice order. There seemed to be two factions: the food lovers and the tobacco lovers. The food lovers scared me away from tobaccos. After trying at least 20 fruit/dessert juices I decided vaping just wasn't for me. Hubby (non-smoker) talked me into trying some tobaccos. OMG they were so awful and I knew why the food lovers said they were. I had health issues and Hubby was concerned enough about my smoking with those to again talk me into just trying another vendor... one that specialized in tobacco. I'm so very happy I did. As a smoker, not a pipe smoker, I never knew what tobacco actually tasted like which is nothing like cigarettes. I love tobacco flavor! And my brain accepts it as a smoking replacement while it never did fruits or dessert. However, it did accept those as eating so I lost some weight... a plus. Today I fill in between tobacco vapes with one fruit and one dessert to avoid vaper's tongue but that's as far as I can go with them. Had I tried sticking with them I would have quit vaping and returned to smoking exclusively after 3 months. Finding good tobacco flavors, I've been vaping for 15 months.

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

Are peanut butter juices as close to or just as good as the real flavor? I'm worried I'll hate it or vape myself away from eating the real thing…

Well, the ones I've tried were pretty close. Not precise, but close. But just like anything else, some vendors' peanut butter liquid is better than others.

 

[Truetopath]

I found myself liking flavors I never thought I'd try in a million years, but now some are my all day vape, like a Grampa smith's tastes just like apple pie.


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[RaceGun59]

I started on RYe 4 , 24 mg. Went a week and once I dropped to 18 mg nic I went off on the flavors. Smarties, RedBull, Grape, Snickers. Now I at the point of mixing 24 mg and 0 mg to make my own 12 mg. I think it's much better then a premixed 12 mg. Dekang Grape is fall back go to vape when I feel I am overloading my new tastebuds.

 

[Steelgirl]

Ooh… I've always been scared or nervous about trying peanut butter e-juice. Not sure why, but can't bring myself to purchase any. I love peanut butter. Eat it all the time… even straight from the jar. Are peanut butter juices as close to or just as good as the real flavor? I'm worried I'll hate it or vape myself away from eating the real thing…

I bought a bottle of peanut butter eliquid from mt baker vaper. It made my stomach growl it was so good. Tasted exactly like peanut butter !!

 

[jwag1973]

Man, crazy how these experiences are so similar!
I laughed at my sister's and brother in laws before I vaped. I remember telling them how I'd never vape. Now I've got more equipment and juice than all them combined, lol. Been all over the flavor spectrum, and loving it more every day!

 

[Ld3441]

I guess I just don't pay much attention to what others are doing and was never around any people who vape. Three months ago when I walked into a vape shop for the first time I had no idea what it was all about. I wanted/needed to quit smoking and went in just to see what it was all about. No intentions of buying anything, I walked out with my first starter kit. LOL

I think since then I have lost my mind. Joking of course but I have been reading everything I could since that day and am waiting on five packages to arrive... vape mail! Never was thrilled with any of the premade juices so as of 2 days ago I started DIY and wow what a difference! I didn't want tobacco flavors at first, I was afraid I'd want a cigarette more. I settled for a coffee flavor that was ok. DIY has opened a whole new world for me.

 

[donnah]

Peanut butter is my main, all day, any time, every occasion vape. I make my own and its better than any vendors juice I've tried. My recipe is in my blog