Smoking cigarettes and vaping

[kasrak2]

Can smoking cigarettes affect my taste buds and prevent me from tasting the actual flavor of my e juice? Lets say the e juice is supposed to be sweet and i taste really bitter instead.
Thank You!

 

[readeuler]

It absolutely can, but I don't know "in what way" specifically. I know that only after not smoking for a few weeks could I smell/taste more fully, and that would include tasting vapor as well.

It's likely that certain "delicate" flavors aren't picked up well, but the more "pungent" stuff, possibly bitter flavors, are more perceptible currently.

 

[Ryedan]

I agree with readeuler. It took me a while to get my ability to taste and smell back when I switched to vaping. A couple of favorite juices became pretty icky through that time, though that can also happen after you get your sense of taste back.

The other thing is your juice might benefit from just letting it sit for a few days or weeks. It's called steeping. IMO if the taste doesn't start to improve after a week it's never going to come around.

 

[Boiler]

Smoking dulls your tastes buds, it doesn't mix them up.

 

[AndriaD]

I think the smoke kinda "scorches" the tastebuds, which makes them less sensitive, probably in pure self-preservation. Also, that junk that gets deposited in your lungs as tar? It's all over your tongue, too, in the little furrows between tastebuds. After you stop smoking, it takes some extremely variable amount of time for them to get over the "shock" of smoke on a constant basis, and for all that gunk to be cleaned away.

Andria

EDIT: one other thing -- most don't know or realize it, but there are a considerable number of "tastebuds" in your palate, the roof of your mouth -- they're just as affected by smoke as the ones on your tongue.

 

[Katya]

Can smoking cigarettes affect my taste buds and prevent me from tasting the actual flavor of my e juice? Lets say the e juice is supposed to be sweet and i taste really bitter instead.
Thank You!

Smoking does dull your taste buds to a certain degree, but an eliquid that's supposed to taste sweet should taste sweet--not bitter. Either you got bad juice or you're scorching it and/or getting dry hits.

 

[Matthew Do]

i personally feel like it does because of smoking cigarettes makes you lose the ability to taste and smell

 

[kasrak2]

Thank you for all your answers folks. Ive gotten my tasting senses back and im in love again.