Holy Cow! That is strong!

[BostLabs]

Howdy!

So in order to try to keep my sanity when I'm inside at work when I couldn't go outside and smoke a cigar. I chewed sugar free bubble gum. Loved it as a child (well it wasn't sugar free back then).

So I would pop 3 sticks in my mouth at a time just to get the bubble gum flavor. I would go through a pack of gum a day most of the time.

Now that I'm vaping (rounding up on 5 weeks Sunday) and can vape inside at my cubicle I forget about my gum.

So the other day I found a pack in my lunch pail. My wife places them there when every there isn't one in there. So I think "Great! Time for a good chew."

So I pop the standard 3 sticks in the ole pie hole and start chomping. Had to spit it out! WOOOO that is way too strong!

Next, after I got that taste out of my mouth. I hit one stick. Nope! Still no go.

So I made a bubble gum juice the other day (Monday). (freebie from Wizards Labs) I let it sit in a dark area to steep and decided to try it today.

Ahhh! Much better! I'll have to get more of the flavor.

So anyone else discover that stuff they used to eat/chew is now over powering in the taste department?

 

[volume control]

Oh man i thought i loved steak before...

 

[BostLabs]

Oh man i thought i loved steak before...

Oh yeah! that is the flip side. Steak is wonderful again! And Ted's Hot Dogs, and Burger King and....

 

[volume control]

Haha well fast food has kinda become meh now that i can taste it, i can taste the oils in fried foods too and i kinda dont like them. My tacos require much less hot sauce now. The first time i had tacos maybe a week after the switch, my mouth was on FIRE lol.

 

[r77r7r]

Taste not so much for me as smell. Springtime out in the burbs here smells awesome. My 10yr boy smells really Bad, lol.

 

[BostLabs]

Hot sauce. Yup I would get a small bowl of taco meat at SuperSalad and would dump the ole HS on it. Last time I did that it was WAY too much!

 

[RichardV]

OHH YEA!! Almost everything tastes so much better now, the only problem I have is that I can no longer stand the taste of coffee.
I will admit that I didn't drink coffee until long after I started smoking cigs so I might never have liked it if I had never smoked at all.

 

[Chiku]

Frank's red hot and really strong salt and vinegar chips used to be a couple of my favourites. Now they seem to strong, and kill my tongue for hours and I can't taste my juice, so i stay away. That has been the strangest thing for me since I started vaping, how different things taste.

 

[RelativeBewt]

everything tastes soooooooo good now haha! i can smell/taste everything now that im stinky-free

 

[DavidOH]

Salt.....I've had to back off the salt.

 

[RelativeBewt]

yes... salt... i found out the hard way that salt is the enemy when u get ur sense of taste back lol. i dont have to salt anything anymore

 

[Crash Moses]

My feet. I never understood why my wife kept throwing my boots outside.

Now I know.

 

[darkstorm]

I loved the ability to really taste things again but there is a down side. I was taking out the trash a month or so after I started vaping and the smell made me....sick. Good thing I had some large plastic bags in my hands at the time but opening them made it far worse. Until I got adjusted my wife was on cat litter detail. Noticed that some peoples idea of personal hygiene was mercifully masked by my cigarette deadened senses. Oh well. I now know the value of good colognes and perfumes, do not think I really appreciated their value while smoking.

 

[HauntedMyst]

I'm finding some vape juices are becoming more overpowering than when they were when I first started. I attribute that to my taste buds coming back to life after being scorched by smoking.

 

[eric1973]

As my taste buds were returning from quitting analogs I have found myself eating and vaping to compliment one another. It mostly happened by accident; I had eaten an overpoweringly strong tasting banana and shortly after vaped some of the blueberry cheesecake sitting on my desk. I almost fell over. Wow that was an awesome taste.

Ever since, coffee (now weakened) goes with a good danish or cinnamon roll vape. Chai tea and a butterscotch vape, white rabbit, etc. The list goes on. Food has become stronger, but my taste buds and sense of smell have become more acute. Sometimes, this is great.
Mix inappropriately, however... not so great.

 

[El_tecolote]

LOL! Yeah, your taste buds get rejuvenated after a while. I used to use a lot of pepper and was a mayo fan for sandwiches. I don't think I've touched mayo in about two years.

 

[mtw4shore]

My WIFE! She still smokes, Yuck. I second the feet. Good thing I have kept my boots outside for years. The other thing I have noticed is my deodorant. I still smell it hours after I put it on. Never noticed that before. It is the little things, like I can really smell the shampoo/conditioner in the shower, and when I open food jars.

 

[Amish3006]

Altoids actually are curiously strong for me now. I always wondered why they used that as a phrase because they weren't that overpowering. Now that I can taste them, it fits.

 

[mare ze dotes]

Plain butter toast. I remember when my taste came back, I was like,"Wow! this is the best peice of toast I have ever eaten!" Silly but true.

 

[Red_Bird]

OHH YEA!! Almost everything tastes so much better now, the only problem I have is that I can no longer stand the taste of coffee.
I will admit that I didn't drink coffee until long after I started smoking cigs so I might never have liked it if I had never smoked at all.

Try hazelnut coffee now as a non smoker. Its great...never liked it much before.