Taste Buds....

[Scylla]

Oct 15, 2011 14:54:10 GMT Chrissie said:

Scylla, I hope you realize that the HC Caramel butter is a flavouring & not an e-liquid?

No I did not!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek*

I survived

scylla x

[Anne (fuzzy)]

I can't taste any of the flavours now, I'm just puffing on tasteless vapour. Don't know why, it was all fine at first. Maybe I've vaped so much that I've got an immunity to the flavours

[Scylla]

There are upsides to dead tastebuds. I got a liquorice Griz sample from Jason and thought Ewww, how am I going to vape that?! I can't taste it so it's fine A lovely clean juice too.

scylla

[Deleted]

From what I understand from Griz we seem to have a few periods when our buds don't work, the first comes approximately 1 month in because of the change in our habits . So @ Andy and Fuzzy don't worry too much . Like I said in my previous post I seem to be going through it yet again, after chatting with Griz last weekend he said it could be a cold ( which I didn't have at the time but which developed the following day ) there are all sorts of things that affect our buds such as what kind of food we eat before we vape. Bear these things in mind then maybe try your fave vape again after a few days . To get a decent vape at any time I always fall back on a strong menthol before going back to the lush flavours. Hope this helps

[grizwald56]

Funny thing taste buds, they do seem to be the main problem associated with e-cigs, but going off my own experiences and those of my friends and folk that I've introduced to vaping, I've noticed the following trends that seem to be universal accross most if not all vapers.

When I first started vaping I stopped the anolouges completely and noticed that in the first month my mouth and tongue went through a peeling process. At times my mouth felt like it was stuffed with cotton wool, also there were days when I could'nt taste anything at all. But I perservered and by week 6 was enjoying all my juices. However there were odd days when my taste buds went south for the day and I could'nt taste anything.

The next thing that became evident was that between 4 to 6 months into vaping you go through another point were you struggle to taste anything, for some this is worse than others, but after many discussions with fellow vapers I found that this can last from a couple of weeks to a couple of months after which time your taste buds fully settle down and you should'nt have any more problems. Most folk find that what juices they enjoyed at the begining of their vaping experience, they din't anymore, this was certainly the case for me, especially with quite a lot of my tobacco flavoured juices, I found that I no longer enjoyed them. I still craved something that had a tobacco flavour though, so I went on to develope tobacco juices with that little added extra, 666 and my Golden Burginia just to name a couple. This meant that first thing in the morning and last thing at night I could still get my tobacco fix.

I suppose that smoking for 46 years has lead me to still crave that tobacco taste. Some folk tend to move away fron tobacco's completely and only vape the sweet juices.

Now having said all this I still do get days when my taste buds are not firing on all cylinders, thankfully as I mix my own juices I can always find something that I can taste.

So what are the causes of this?

Tiredness, spicy foods and sauces, burning your mouth on hot food, mouth ulcers, certain beverages and medicines i.e. cough medicines, just to name a few.

I do now pre-ward folk that I introduce to vaping about these issues so they can then themselves identify what things affect them and take steps to avoid anything that may hinder their taste buds. We are of course all different and what may affect me, may not affect you, it's all trial and error.

What is worth thinking about is the fact that when you smoked anologues, you bought your chosen brand of fags, or baccy, and just got on with it, and you were never aware of days when you could'nt taste your fags, your brain was only registering the fact that you'd had a fag and told you everything was fine, until you needed your next fag.

However, things change considerably when you switch to e-cigs as now the brain has an extra factor to take into account.....

.....FLAVOUR!.....

.....So not only is the brain telling you when you need your next nic fix, but it also registers the flavour of your juice which now becomes more pronounced and is an important factor when vaping.

I have found that my taste buds do change throughout the day. First thing in the morning, especially after brushing my teeth, I don't taste my juices very well for the first hour, this improves as the day goes on. For me the best time for enjoying juices is from mid-afternoon to going to bed at night, so I leave testing any juices until these times.

Finally as I said, I was a smoker for 46 years and that has taken it's toll on my taste buds so I have to direct inhale my vapour to taste my juices. This I've found to be the same for other folk who have smoked for many years and they do it the same way as I do to get the best from their vaping experience.

Also bear in mind that the atty/carto you use can affect your juices too, as can voltage. It's a good thing we now have VV devices that can compensate for this to a point.

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

Thank god my tastes buds do not seem to be affected, and I hope they dont in the future, so far, all the juices I have I can taste, the only thing I have found is the tank gives a lot less flavour. It must be so frustrating for the people who's taste buds play up.