I put emphasis on 'everything' as I see many threads talking about losing taste for one particular flavour, but I am experiencing this with all tastes/smells.
I bought an eroll last week and I am loving it, well I was. I have had some analogues but very few (maybe 12 cigs in this last week vs my normal 1 pad)
The eliquid I have is 70/30 and bought some menthol 12 mg and 0. I also bought some vanilla and regular cig flavour but I'm not too fond of that.
In this one week, I've already experienced this three times. It happened most when I was chain vaping. I was chain vaping 0 mg just because I enjoy the act of vaping. The first night I bought the eroll I was chain vaping 0 mg (but also some 12 mg in between) just to use the device and was happy with my purchase. The menthol was very strong in taste and I enjoyed it. In the morning I vaped and could barely taste it. I thought, that's strange, but going to work and by midday it tasted strong again and didn't think much of it. I vaped casually the next couple of days and then on saturday,it was a night of drinking and vaping, and the next day when I woke up, I had a can of gingerale and I could barely taste it. It tasted like carbonated water with the lightest hint of ginger. I vaped and same thing, could barely taste the menthol.
Then I tried other foods and everything had a really subdued flavour and I know taste and smell are connected and smelt some perfume that I know is strong and could barely smell it! This kind of freaked me out. But again the day went on and I didn't vap much and it was fine again.
Yesterday I thought, maybe nicotine is doing this somehow in liquid form, so I hadn't planned to yet but vaped 0 mg all day yesterday and no analogues. It was a little tough but got through it. Because I was using 0 again, I pretty much chain vaped all night (well not constantly, but a lot) in the evening.
Well I woke up this morning and could barely smell or taste anything!! It scared me and I said no vaping today. Well, I started to jonze and gave in and bought a pack of smokes. I'm sure most of you have tried quitting before and when you have that first smoke, it's shocking how strong it tastes, both the awful real taste that you normally don't taste, and the rush of having a smoke.
Well I bought a pack and had a drag and could taste absolutely nothing! My first real smoke in three days and it has no taste! I know that's not normal.
I've seen other posts say that your taste buds get crazy sometimes and need to assimilate to not smoking, but I find that somewhat suspect. I've quit smoking 3 times before and each time smells/tastes get more pronounced, and this happens pretty quickly. I most certainly never experienced any loss of taste or smell when quitting.
I can't say how good my sense of taste/smell is compared to a non-smoker, but I've always found my smell/taste to be pretty good so to experience this is disconcerting.
On another note, something I've suffered from for years is a pasty white tongue, I assume smoking did this to me. My tongue is never pink, it's either somewhat white, or really white. When I cut back on smokes it gets almost pink. I probably never quit long enough for it to go completely pink. Oral health is important and is something that shouldn't be ignored, but as a smoker we justify these things.
I also hoped that I would have a nice healthy tongue but when I chain vape I can't believe how white it gets. Yes I've already read drink more water as this dehydrates you, well I already drink a ton of water all throughout the day. When smoking my tongue is white and I get really bad breath sometimes, well now it's even more white but no bad breath, but now that I think about it, maybe it's because I can't taste it!
So I'm left with either, try without menthol if that could be doing it, (I already tried a day of 0 mg and that didn't work) or don't do this at all. All the posts about loss of sense of taste to flavours and the recommendation is to rotate flavours, but I think there should be more concern as to why this happens. What other food/liquid does this? I can drink coke all day (I don't anymore, just water, but as an example) and the last coke taste like the first coke. So becoming assimilated to one flavour doesn't jive with me as the cause.
So in my case it's either menthol or something happens when inhaling vg/pg. Part of me wants to see how it goes, but I'm very concerned about doing that because say I'm without taste/smell for weeks? That can't be something healthy to do.
Otherwise I'm going to give up vaping when I barely got started, but was hoping if anyone had any insights as to why this actually happens besides rotate flavours.
I think vaping on the surface seems fantastic, the geek in my loves the tech, but I'm seeing things in usage that I wasn't initially aware of and now have second thoughts on this tech.
I bought an eroll last week and I am loving it, well I was. I have had some analogues but very few (maybe 12 cigs in this last week vs my normal 1 pad)
The eliquid I have is 70/30 and bought some menthol 12 mg and 0. I also bought some vanilla and regular cig flavour but I'm not too fond of that.
In this one week, I've already experienced this three times. It happened most when I was chain vaping. I was chain vaping 0 mg just because I enjoy the act of vaping. The first night I bought the eroll I was chain vaping 0 mg (but also some 12 mg in between) just to use the device and was happy with my purchase. The menthol was very strong in taste and I enjoyed it. In the morning I vaped and could barely taste it. I thought, that's strange, but going to work and by midday it tasted strong again and didn't think much of it. I vaped casually the next couple of days and then on saturday,it was a night of drinking and vaping, and the next day when I woke up, I had a can of gingerale and I could barely taste it. It tasted like carbonated water with the lightest hint of ginger. I vaped and same thing, could barely taste the menthol.
Then I tried other foods and everything had a really subdued flavour and I know taste and smell are connected and smelt some perfume that I know is strong and could barely smell it! This kind of freaked me out. But again the day went on and I didn't vap much and it was fine again.
Yesterday I thought, maybe nicotine is doing this somehow in liquid form, so I hadn't planned to yet but vaped 0 mg all day yesterday and no analogues. It was a little tough but got through it. Because I was using 0 again, I pretty much chain vaped all night (well not constantly, but a lot) in the evening.
Well I woke up this morning and could barely smell or taste anything!! It scared me and I said no vaping today. Well, I started to jonze and gave in and bought a pack of smokes. I'm sure most of you have tried quitting before and when you have that first smoke, it's shocking how strong it tastes, both the awful real taste that you normally don't taste, and the rush of having a smoke.
Well I bought a pack and had a drag and could taste absolutely nothing! My first real smoke in three days and it has no taste! I know that's not normal.
I've seen other posts say that your taste buds get crazy sometimes and need to assimilate to not smoking, but I find that somewhat suspect. I've quit smoking 3 times before and each time smells/tastes get more pronounced, and this happens pretty quickly. I most certainly never experienced any loss of taste or smell when quitting.
I can't say how good my sense of taste/smell is compared to a non-smoker, but I've always found my smell/taste to be pretty good so to experience this is disconcerting.
On another note, something I've suffered from for years is a pasty white tongue, I assume smoking did this to me. My tongue is never pink, it's either somewhat white, or really white. When I cut back on smokes it gets almost pink. I probably never quit long enough for it to go completely pink. Oral health is important and is something that shouldn't be ignored, but as a smoker we justify these things.
I also hoped that I would have a nice healthy tongue but when I chain vape I can't believe how white it gets. Yes I've already read drink more water as this dehydrates you, well I already drink a ton of water all throughout the day. When smoking my tongue is white and I get really bad breath sometimes, well now it's even more white but no bad breath, but now that I think about it, maybe it's because I can't taste it!
So I'm left with either, try without menthol if that could be doing it, (I already tried a day of 0 mg and that didn't work) or don't do this at all. All the posts about loss of sense of taste to flavours and the recommendation is to rotate flavours, but I think there should be more concern as to why this happens. What other food/liquid does this? I can drink coke all day (I don't anymore, just water, but as an example) and the last coke taste like the first coke. So becoming assimilated to one flavour doesn't jive with me as the cause.
So in my case it's either menthol or something happens when inhaling vg/pg. Part of me wants to see how it goes, but I'm very concerned about doing that because say I'm without taste/smell for weeks? That can't be something healthy to do.
Otherwise I'm going to give up vaping when I barely got started, but was hoping if anyone had any insights as to why this actually happens besides rotate flavours.
I think vaping on the surface seems fantastic, the geek in my loves the tech, but I'm seeing things in usage that I wasn't initially aware of and now have second thoughts on this tech.
