I think Im awake… maybe. I have coffee in front of me… 
I know!!! lol
Yeps if I can wake up… that hockey game was just wow! 
but I think I’d rather go to a concert lol… at least there I could dance or…
I started smoking when I like too young, it was like that when I was growing up. Mom and dad could send me to the store to buy their smokes for like under a 1.00… no joke. we’d light them up to keep the skeeters away out in the yard. Hard to believe that was 35+ years ago… I watched them both die from smoking related illness and I miss them something awful. I have a bit of experience. I can tell you it will get better, but how much depends on a lit of things.
Your diet comes into play, what you eat as well as how your body reacts is a big key. Any medicines, that too can effect taste. How much you smoked and for how long. Some taste buds may never ever come back, no matter what.
The one thing I have found is like with nicotine intake, you can lower your nic… and… you can lower your flavors… Meaning if you can taste blood orange at 2% (which I would never suggest to start out on!! even 1% at times can be too much!) but this is for an example… step it down to 1.8% from that 2%… This is why again, I tell folks… start very low with solo testing where you can detect change from plain base to a hint of the flavor you are working with, and then work it up from that point… to where you can taste.
@Dardy… being this is a banana… you can try to keep raising it and see what happens. Just for giggles… if at 1% you are barely tasting… try 1.2% I wouldn’t just just to 1.4% just slowly raise it…
Why? because all it takes to change a fluid/liquid is one drop… and that .2% difference is 3 drops in 30ml or 1 drop in 10ml extra 
see exactly where you taste it… if the banana tastes fine at 1.4% and you can taste it… then drop it back to 1.2% … the magic comes in that you know what it tastes like at 1.4% and your mind will hold on to that taste, making the muscles and taste buds as well as nose work together. If you keep this up over time, what functioning taste buds you have will have a chance to grow more… As far as your dead taste buds, from the research I have seen most do not grow back. Some might surprise you and will, but you will always have dead patches… body cells change by forming, then by multiplying and then dying off, to be replaced by more growth… just like the rest of your body…some just can’t grow back… Hope this is a better explanation…
I hope this might make some sense… and will do a better write up tonight.
. Cheers…