i've been viping for a week now and at first it was great, a have your cake and eat it to experience. Now i've noticed that everything tastes awful, the vaper, food, everything. i've tried changing flavors on the cart to something completely different and it tasts just like the one i took off. I have 6 different flavors and they all taste the same to me. in fact they taste bad enough that i chew gum at the same time to cover up the flavor. I'm also the kind of cook that taste everything as I cook to make adjustments and everything taste awful. We went to a favorite restaurant the other night and there food tasted bad to me. has anyone else had this problem, will it pass? I quit smoking before, cold turkey, and the opposite happened, everything tasted wonderful, so I cant figure it out. Any help with this would be helpful.
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It's your taste buds growing back. it takes a minimum of two weeks to adjust and then you will start tasting things like non-smokers do.
I went through this, too, and it did get better (still improving.) As everyone says, make sure you are drinking LOTS of water, and have a big glass right before you go to bed. And, don't make any permanent decisions about flavors (i.e. don't throw out all of the ones you don't like right now), things will taste different to you before long, and you will want to try everything again to reassess.
Hang in there!
Hang in there!
I sure hope it passes, but if it doesn't I still don't ever want to go back. Who knows, maybe this will also be a great diet aid. When food taste this bad, I don't feel like eating it. Funny though that I still want to vape anyway. Just shows how powerful nicotine is.
everytime i pull out my lunch at work i really dont want to eat it because i know i wont really enjoy it that much. my wife is an excellent cook, so it isnt that. it isnt you. it happens to everyone i think.
I've been noticing that things taste different as well. It's more noticeable with certain foods for me and I keep asking people to try stuff and tell me if it tastes off. They keep saying no, so I've given up asking.
Take a few big big whiffs of roasted coffee beans a few times per day for a week and your smell and taste will be like new again. Smelling coffee beans is a technique used by perfume makers to restore their sense of smell as they work with really potent fragrances.
Smells have been weirding me out lately too. I mowed the lawn a few days ago for the first time since I quit smoking and thought there was something wrong with my mower. After a minute I realized that it's always smelled that bad, I just couldn't tell.
That's an awesome fact, and reminds me that I need to get a good coffee/espresso flavored vape
I wish I liked coffee, I love the smell of it but can't stand to drink it. Or vape it.
It may sound silly but try scraping/brushing your tongue if you don't do it normally.
Thats a great idea for getting rid of horrid yellow tar/scum from smoking but it wont help sense of taste, as its goverened by your nose.
I found the use of a Neti pot was helpful although its a very weird thing to do with your nose - it does help a bit though.
FYI _ I get the loss of smell (taste) thing around every couple of months - its very annoying and Id love to stop it happening at all but it seems its not an option (lots of research basically told me 'suck it up' lol)
It's linked with smell but you still have taste buds on your tongue, they have something to do with it I'm sure.
Tongue tastebuds can only distinguish sweet, salt, bitter sour and savory - the fine tuning is in the nose. Thats why really good perfume testers have big noses (they really DO! lol)
Yes, this is why we can't taste medicine that tastes REALLY BAD when we hold our noses and drink it. Or other foul tasting things. But we can still taste the sweetness and the bitterness of it. Very very simple "tastes". We can not taste the cherry. Sort of like flavored water that has no sugar in it. If we hold our nose and drink it, it tastes just like plain old water. If we drink it regularly without holding our nose, voila, we can taste the grape, or lemon, or strawberry. Whatever "flavor" it was.
More "scientific" information on that:
"Have you ever wondered why food loses its flavor when you have a cold? It’s not your taste buds’ fault. Blame your stuffed-up nose. Seventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. It’s the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation.
When you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose. If mucus in your nasal passageshttp://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/tstesmll.html#nasal becomes too thick, air and odor molecules can’t reach your olfactory receptor cells. Thus, your brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything you eat tastes much the same. You can feel the texture and temperature of the food, but no messengers can tell your brain, “This cool, milky substance is chocolate ice cream.” The odor molecules remain trapped in your mouth. The pathway has been blocked off to those powerful perceivers of smell--the olfactory bulbs."
It's really all pretty interesting. It's crazy how much your nose plays into your every day life. I think we'd all be pretty miserable without our sense of smell... think about it... you could be walking around with dog poo on your shoe for days and never know... lol.
Here's the link if anybody wants to read up on it more
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/tstesmll.html
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Thank you for this thread. I was sure I had somehow ruined my attys as my flavors tasted horrible. Now a few days later they taste fine again. It is the two week mark for me so it makes sense.
Is it possible for a flavor to taste bad after a few days of vaping it exclusively?
Is it possible for a flavor to taste bad after a few days of vaping it exclusively?
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