I've ordered some too! It's on special this week! So yeah - got me some AFB action.
As they didn't have any 'cat hiney'
lol
As they didn't have any 'cat hiney'
lol
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I've ordered some too! It's on special this week! So yeah - got me some AFB action.
As they didn't have any 'cat hiney'
lol
ROFL
no worries Captjay - I can send you my special blend of "dirty socks and cat hiney" I have a special stash on reserve I have a feeling that the AFB stuff is going to be great - I can't wait get it!!
You made me put some in just now. It's kinda like those old Pringles commercials, except it's like "once it's in your head, you have to vape some"
Update!
The flavors are starting to clear up. My Bella Vanilla is now even better than it was before it "went bad". I had a couple problems with some atomizers as well. One was bubbling the paint job off of itself. I scraped all the paint off, and the taste instantly improved. The other has decided it would like to increase it's resistance to almost 6 ohms. Still not sure what that's all about, but I'm trying to figure it out. It works fine, but it's resistance has doubled. You have to warm it up like a car before it'll run right.
Back to the taste buds going nuts. My current status is that the two Halo Menthols taste good again, the Bella is WONDERFUL now, Smooth 8 is tolerable, and the Harley is still unvapable. If I didn't think the Harley was so good the first two days I had it, I'd be suspicious that it just stuck with me, making everything else taste bad. This is obviously not the case though. I hope the Harley does come back around for me, because it was very enjoyable. At the moment, it's the only flavor giving me problems from my strange taste being off experience.
The flavors are starting to clear up. My Bella Vanilla is now even better than it was before it "went bad". I had a couple problems with some atomizers as well. One was bubbling the paint job off of itself. I scraped all the paint off, and the taste instantly improved. The other has decided it would like to increase it's resistance to almost 6 ohms. Still not sure what that's all about, but I'm trying to figure it out. It works fine, but it's resistance has doubled. You have to warm it up like a car before it'll run right.
Back to the taste buds going nuts. My current status is that the two Halo Menthols taste good again, the Bella is WONDERFUL now, Smooth 8 is tolerable, and the Harley is still unvapable. If I didn't think the Harley was so good the first two days I had it, I'd be suspicious that it just stuck with me, making everything else taste bad. This is obviously not the case though. I hope the Harley does come back around for me, because it was very enjoyable. At the moment, it's the only flavor giving me problems from my strange taste being off experience.
Good to hear 
Mine are on an upswing right now too but I'm trying my hardest not to vape a million flavors a day too
Just be warned - it can happen again - has with me - its annoying as all get out but as it DOES pass I guess Ill have to learn to live with it.
Mine are on an upswing right now too but I'm trying my hardest not to vape a million flavors a day too Just be warned - it can happen again - has with me - its annoying as all get out but as it DOES pass I guess Ill have to learn to live with it.
Last night I was thinking about our taste buds and I thought of something you had mentioned, CaptJay. Our taste buds desensitize after eating something for awhile and, for me at least, I vape all day long! I'm so addicted to vaping chocolate and caramel that much of the time I don't even care if I eat! Well, if I were to eat as much as I vape I doubt I would taste anything either. I was thinking about M&Ms and how good they taste when I first start eating them. After a handful or so the taste isn't anything like the first ones... it diminishes considerably. I'm sure we're doing things to our TBs that have never been done to them before. I'm curious if this happens to everyone and if it gets better over time. We need a poll!
Just remember, Deaf Ear, how bad our mouth tasted when we smoked too much! Yuk! Nothing vape wise could be THAT bad!
the taste isn't anything like the first ones... it diminishes considerably. I'm sure we're doing things to our TBs that have never been done to them before. I'm curious if this happens to everyone and if it gets better over time. We need a poll! Just remember, Deaf Ear, how bad our mouth tasted when we smoked too much! Yuk! Nothing vape wise could be THAT bad!
I had the same issue with the fizziness of some grape i ordered a week goes by and its all good. from now on ima wait a week before i try any new flavors out
Something similar happened to me when I tried a few of the various other cart fillers (fluval and blue foam). All my flavors tasted bad to me, despite better draw and vapor production. Even after I went back to the poly all my juices tasted awful to me. Took awhile but now its tasting good to me again. Done with the alternate fillers ><.
have you tried dripping those flavors w/o the cart? that's the purest way to taste the flavor. an easy way to see if it's the juice or not.
also, have you smelled your fluval? i stored some fluval in a drawer with some lith ion batteries and had a gawd awful chemical taste in EVERYTHING i vaped. i poured out juice that i thought was bad, rinsed carts, cleaned atties, you name it.
then i took a whiff of the fluval itself and it about knocked me over. same disgusting smell as i was tasting.
i think it picked up the battery smell, because that was the only chemical thing in the drawer. the batteries weren't even leaking... it was enough to hose my fluval.
also, have you smelled your fluval? i stored some fluval in a drawer with some lith ion batteries and had a gawd awful chemical taste in EVERYTHING i vaped. i poured out juice that i thought was bad, rinsed carts, cleaned atties, you name it.
then i took a whiff of the fluval itself and it about knocked me over. same disgusting smell as i was tasting.
i think it picked up the battery smell, because that was the only chemical thing in the drawer. the batteries weren't even leaking... it was enough to hose my fluval.
You might try cleansing your sinuses as well as your atties and carts. I use a neti pot and it has helped with renewing flavors for me. Not everyone's cup of tea though!
I've had this happen, and it's made me want to smoke an analog. But I stick it out and it passes. I don't know why this happens either.
The same thing is happening to me and it is REALLY FRUSTRATING!
I first tried to kick the analogs about a year ago - I bought an NJOY and found this site and then I kind of just lost interest
Fast forward almost a year later and my family planned a vacation and my dear (non-smoking) sister booked a completely NON-SMOKING resort You can't even smoke on the outdoor balcony 
So I figured I'd give the ecig another try and do it right this time: I would tell myself I wasn't really quitting the analogs, I was just getting an ecig to cut down on analog use and to use it at times when I couldn't smoke an analog (even though I knew my true intention was to completely quit analogs)
Bought a Vapor King Manual to be my "on the go"/"stealth vapor"
And
Bought a Prodigy V2 from PS for my home PV
The Vapor King came first last Friday (Feb 12th) and I thought: who the heck am I kidding? I'm not going to be able to quit with just an e-cig. I would be vaping and actively wanting an analog BUT then the Prodigy V2 arrived on Saturday, Feb 13th . . .
WOW! Not only did the throat hit and vapor knock my socks off I "found my flavor" : COLA For the first time I believed I could kick analogs.
I was sucking on that puppy like it was going out of style and went from smoking 30+ cigs a day down to about 8-10 which is HUGE for me.
Then just as I was thinking I was going to be able to try an go all e-cig: wham! Cola stopped tasting like anything.
Now, I can't say it's my body "detoxing" because:
I'm still smoking analogs so I'm not detoxing.
I can't say it's my lack of tastebuds because there were a few good days of vaping and right now I can taste the difference between a Camel Turkish Gold and Marlboro Mediums
I shouldn't be burned out on the COLA flavor as I purposely switched with two other flavors so I wouldn't get too used to the COLA
This sucks SO BAD - I don't need another reason to give up on e-cigs AGAIN and go back to analogs full time but this is giving me a reason.
It doesn't help that all of the flavors everyone seems to love so much (Blueberry, Macchiato, etc.) I find gross (and yes, I've tried revisiting them and everytime it's YUK).
Losing hope here
I first tried to kick the analogs about a year ago - I bought an NJOY and found this site and then I kind of just lost interest
Fast forward almost a year later and my family planned a vacation and my dear (non-smoking) sister booked a completely NON-SMOKING resort
You can't even smoke on the outdoor balcony So I figured I'd give the ecig another try and do it right this time: I would tell myself I wasn't really quitting the analogs, I was just getting an ecig to cut down on analog use and to use it at times when I couldn't smoke an analog (even though I knew my true intention was to completely quit analogs)
Bought a Vapor King Manual to be my "on the go"/"stealth vapor"
And
Bought a Prodigy V2 from PS for my home PV
The Vapor King came first last Friday (Feb 12th) and I thought: who the heck am I kidding? I'm not going to be able to quit with just an e-cig. I would be vaping and actively wanting an analog BUT then the Prodigy V2 arrived on Saturday, Feb 13th . . .
WOW! Not only did the throat hit and vapor knock my socks off I "found my flavor" : COLA For the first time I believed I could kick analogs.
I was sucking on that puppy like it was going out of style and went from smoking 30+ cigs a day down to about 8-10 which is HUGE for me.
Then just as I was thinking I was going to be able to try an go all e-cig: wham! Cola stopped tasting like anything.
Now, I can't say it's my body "detoxing" because:
I'm still smoking analogs so I'm not detoxing.
I can't say it's my lack of tastebuds because there were a few good days of vaping and right now I can taste the difference between a Camel Turkish Gold and Marlboro Mediums
I shouldn't be burned out on the COLA flavor as I purposely switched with two other flavors so I wouldn't get too used to the COLA
This sucks SO BAD - I don't need another reason to give up on e-cigs AGAIN and go back to analogs full time but this is giving me a reason.
It doesn't help that all of the flavors everyone seems to love so much (Blueberry, Macchiato, etc.) I find gross (and yes, I've tried revisiting them and everytime it's YUK).
Losing hope here
Imo you can get burned out on ANY flavor (I call it tastebud exhaustion and I truely believe thats what happens) - and just today I got it again lol. Yesterday was wonderful, vaped away like a crazy person (well I do that anyways but its better when i taste the flavors) and tonight I couldnt taste my dinner either, so I know its my taste buds and not the PV. Smell seems fairly unaffected btw. When this happens, as it invariably does every couple of days, I jsut vape thru it. Damned if I'm gonna smoke a cig jsut cos I cant taste right now, anyways - likely I wouldnt be able to taste that either so what would the point be? lol
I can taste the TH, and some flavors (I try to get as far away in the taste spectrum from the one I was vaping hte day before it happens, like if Im vaping on Butter rum I go to a fruity flavor instead) do push thru a little. I also keep a very harsh coffee and tobacco for days like this.
You should be fine in day or so yanks21, just try and accept that your tastebuds, like mine, go into shock from constantly tasting stuff all the time and need a rest.
Id much rather my tastebuds went a bit 'ok gonna rest up now' than my lungs anyway
I can taste the TH, and some flavors (I try to get as far away in the taste spectrum from the one I was vaping hte day before it happens, like if Im vaping on Butter rum I go to a fruity flavor instead) do push thru a little. I also keep a very harsh coffee and tobacco for days like this.
You should be fine in day or so yanks21, just try and accept that your tastebuds, like mine, go into shock from constantly tasting stuff all the time and need a rest.
Id much rather my tastebuds went a bit 'ok gonna rest up now' than my lungs anyway
I found this part of an article from an ENT specialist note - it relates to smell but is linked to taste also.
".. If you smell an odour for long enough, you eventually stop noticing it. This is because prolonged exposure to a strong smell is believed to saturate the olfactory epithelium with odour molecules to the point where information is no longer delivered to the brain. This is called 'adaptation'. Loss in smell sensitivity is only temporary and is particular to that 'over-smelled' odour. Recovering from adaptation depends on the individual but can range from a few seconds to a couple of minutes."
(we 'oversmell' for HOURS so Im thinking recuperation can take that long also)
".. If you smell an odour for long enough, you eventually stop noticing it. This is because prolonged exposure to a strong smell is believed to saturate the olfactory epithelium with odour molecules to the point where information is no longer delivered to the brain. This is called 'adaptation'. Loss in smell sensitivity is only temporary and is particular to that 'over-smelled' odour. Recovering from adaptation depends on the individual but can range from a few seconds to a couple of minutes."
(we 'oversmell' for HOURS so Im thinking recuperation can take that long also)
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Thanks, CaptJay - I was prepared for it to happen someday, just not so quickly and I had purposely mixed in two other flavors (even thought I didn't like them all that much) to try and avoid "OD'ing" on the COLA
So sorry it happened to you AGAIN.
Perhaps with all the brilliant people on this board we will come up with an answer someday.
Well, I don't think I can blame my tastebuds as my Camel Turkish Gold tasted oh so good today.
Hmmmm . . . Butter Rum - I don't know where you got yours but I just placed my first order with Ms. T my hope is her flavors are so Yummy that I will be able to add a few to my rotation to overcome such times because as of now there are so few flavors I really like
In the end I kind of believed from the beginning that I would be one of those people who will have to suppliment vaping with Snus or Snuff - now with the taste thing I'm all but positive I will have to suppliment.
I know me: I used any excuse to continue to smoke and will take any to start up again if/when I totally stop.
Thanks for listening!
I really don't know why it is, but pretty much all of us experience it. I go through days when everything I vape tastes bad, days when I am not tasting anything at all, days when all I can taste is the nicotine, etc. Taste bud exhaustion seems plausible, so does dehydration; no matter how much we may be drinking, PG is a humectant and dries out moist tissues it comes into contact with. Or maybe it's a build up of bacteria or something on our tongues. But whatever the cause, just give it a little time, and your tastes will come back.
Well, everything is awesome now except the Harley. It doesn't taste bad either, just has a hint of that bad experience left in it. I think at this point it's just that vaping it reminds me of the whole ordeal. I'll give it a few more days and try again. It may come back around for me.
Finally got my Cool in as well, so I have every single Halo flavor to sort through. Currently on the Bella and Cool back and forth. Great stuff both of them.
Finally got my Cool in as well, so I have every single Halo flavor to sort through. Currently on the Bella and Cool back and forth. Great stuff both of them.
I have had that exact thing happen to me and when it does it lasts a couple of days then everything is fine again. I am now at the 4 months of no cigs at all mark and havent had that happen for quite some time. I do switch flavors at least 3 times a day but really I dont know if that has anything to do with it.
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