Pack your bags Mr Salt, I don't need you anymore

[mojojo]

So I am new to vaping, mind you I am still in transition from analogs to 100% vaping but it's a work in progress no rush.

I am a Salt on everything kind of person and even pre salted food is not salted enough and of course as a woman we all know what salt does to us.. lol

I always thought people were full of it when they said food would taste different when you quit smoking. I've been a hard smoker for almost 30 yrs so of course to me food never really tasted the way non smokers say it does

BUT since I started vaping I can honestly say all the food I normaly eat with tons of salt on has started to taste perfectly salted and I don't need to add any, which is awesome and I am loving it.


What I don't like with this new way of tasting and smelling... I almost gagged the other morning when I reached to get my half n half cream and got a whif of the left over pizza we had the night before.. Nothing wrong with the pizza but the smell of certain things makes me gag now.. lol

 

[Mary Kay]

I hear you! I have changed the way I cook also..not nearly as much spice and no salt. I also found out fast food tastes terrible! Coffee is much better and I can smell it brewing! The first time was about 2 weeks after I quit smoking. I went into the kitchen to ask my husband what it was!
It gets better but for the first year your tastes will change and change again.

 

[classwife]

I still love my salt...but yea, not as much as I used to !

 

[Fudgey]

I can't eat regular potato chips anymore because of the salt. I buy lightly salted ships now, when I eat tortilla chips I have to wipe some of the salt off. I never even tasted the salt before I quit smoking! I won't let DH put seasoning on meat for me anymore......he puts way to much on it.

Everything else......OMGosh.....I eat way to much of it!

 

[classwife]

I can so see you wiping off chips !!

 

[Fudgey]

LOL......I was doing that tonight and my daughter asked me what the heck I was doing

 

[CES]

I've never been much of a salt person, so that didn't change much for me, but i was ever so glad when the good smells also started coming back. Why do the odd/icky smells come back first?

 

[classwife]

ummm...yea...phew !

But it is wonderful to drive down a street and smell the jasmine in bloom from the car !

 

[Fudgey]

I can smell my tea rose bush when I walk out the front door now, I used to have to put my nose right next to one.

 

[classwife]

It's great huh !

 

[Fudgey]

It's amazing!! I could smell the lilac's too!

 

[CES]

it is amazing. I could smell wisteria and honeysuckle this spring.

 

[classwife]

Oh I love lilacs !

 

[Fudgey]

Honeysuckle is one of my favorites!!

 

[TinyTimberGal]

I can't eat regular potato chips anymore because of the salt. I buy lightly salted ships now, when I eat tortilla chips I have to wipe some of the salt off. I never even tasted the salt before I quit smoking! I won't let DH put seasoning on meat for me anymore......he puts way to much on it.

Everything else......OMGosh.....I eat way to much of it!

We must be related

Even before I quit smoking I would wipe the salt off of pretty much everything, chips, french fries, and crackers. For pretzels, I have to 'pick' the salt off. Since quitting smoking I pretty much stay away from anything salty.

I've also had to relearn how to cook/season food.

As for odors, besides stale cigarette odor, and I know it sounds dumb, but I can't stand the smell of 'men'. Not my husband (thank God), but I can actually smell when a man has been in the office/lobby at work, and it's not aftershave or cologne. It's a metallic, sweat smell...

 

[Fudgey]

We must be related

Even before I quit smoking I would wipe the salt off of pretty much everything, chips, french fries, and crackers. For pretzels, I have to 'pick' the salt off. Since quitting smoking I pretty much stay away from anything salty.

I've also had to relearn how to cook/season food.

As for odors, besides stale cigarette odor, and I know it sounds dumb, but I can't stand the smell of 'men'. Not my husband (thank God), but I can actually smell when a man has been in the office/lobby at work, and it's not aftershave or cologne. It's a metallic, sweat smell...

French fries are the worst now!! DH and I will ask for no salt when we go out.....sometimes they actually get it right...LOL

I have yet to experience a smell like that yet....thank goodness!!

 

[Dhornung]

My favorite smell is my hair. When I get off work and tale my hair down, it still smells like shampoo. I love it! No more nasty stinky hair or pillows!

 

[mojojo]

I have a bad cold too right now and my taste buds are so out of whack.. my maple tasting ejuice taste like powdered steak spice right now

 

[classwife]

Yep on the hair...and when you pull a shirt off over your head...it still smells clean !

 

[moondragon]

This is a benefit I hadn't realized. I've only been off analogs for a little less than a week, so I am looking forward to this in the future. I'm retiring from work in July and plan to spend a lot of time out working in the garden and in the kitchen refamiliarizing myself with real cooking again, so hopefully by then I'll be able to smell all the good things again!