Because its started to seriously mess up my taste of sweet. My juice started tasting sour and my meds ( that I take sublingually) started tasting bitter. Just on a dime. I tried dropping some sucralose concentrate right on my tongue and yeah it was still sweet, so I could have just added more… but that clearly would have made the problem worse. Also I realized how the amount I add had increased over time. From like 2-4 drops in a bottle to 9… or more.
EDIT: Oh yeah I did check to see what the sweetening agent was in my my meds and it was… something I forget… but it was not sucralose or ethyl-maltol so its clearly not to do with just one chemical.
And since most flavours either have some sweetener in them, or don’t taste right unless there’s some added to them - I could really only see one thing to do. Which is a damn shame… considering the dozens of flavour concentrates I’ve bought.
Though I did kind of lose track of my original goal of getting off vaping. But the motivation for that was chest pain. But once I got nic levels from 20mg/ml to 3-4mg/ml, the chest pain mostlywent away, and so did my motivation to stop.
I was hoping the plain juice would actually help me stop, but really, its not so bad. I still add my icing agents… menthol + ws23. Too much menthol makes me short of breath and too much ws23 gives me brain freeze so I’ve found just using a bit of both works best.
But anyway… I’ve heard about similar experiences before but never really firsthand. Anybody experience anything like this?
your sense of taste can change dramatically when it comes to vaping
i vaped mostly desserts for years, now I have become extremely sensitive to them and stick to fruits mostly
what makes you so sure its the sweetener?
maybe try some experiments like not adding sweetener at all?
or just take a break and try again in the future
you can always donate your flavors to a good cause… by which i mean me.
but seriously i may be interested in buying some off you if you decide that
I stopped vaping commercial juices 50:50 because of too much sweeteners and it was easy to try DIY. I rarely use my sweeteners, and will use different flavors to sweeten.
I’ve been at 4mg/ml for about 5 years now RDL, and when I last dropped to 3mg/ml I was vaping non stop, so back to 4. My lower watt builds in a boro tank I usually double that to 8mg/ml (like a pod) heading across a parking lot or quick run to a store.
Possibly your medication is messing with your sense of taste. Look up your meds side effects on line and on the leaflet that comes with them. Possibly your doctor may suggest alternative meds that don’t have this effect. I take sublingual tablets daily and my taste is off for about an hour afterwards but it’s ok after that. Hopefully it will improve.
Have you tried alternative ways of sweetening your juice. Like adding marshmallow or meringue at a low %. Those work as a sweetener in some instances.
I use FA Menthol (Arctic) all by itself @3% once in a while just for a refresh of the palette. It’s just a light menthol with a touch of cooling.
I think a lot of us think that same way in the beginning. Using vaping as a tool to stop smoking or for health reasons, thinking I’ll just cut back on my nicotine intake. It’s like most things in life you really have to want too. I’ve been cutting myself down by .5mg every 3 months. I started @6mg many years ago and went to 3mg not long after starting. Now I’m down to 1mg and hopefully @0 by the end of 2025. Try cutting your nic down slowly it does get easier as you go.
idk I’ve been taking it for around 10 years, a lot longer than I’ve been vaping. Though I think it might be part of the problem. I mean pretty much every moment of the day I either have sweet tasting pills dissolving in mouth OR sweet vape smoke in my mouth. It only makes sense that my body would develop a sort of tolerance.
I’m glad it only took a couple days before other sweet things were tasting sweet again ( after taking all sweeteners out of the vape juice).
I think the juice is probably most at fault, just because of the vaping frequency. Yeah I got nic levels down, but now I vape even more. Not six fold, so still less nicotine overall, but still more puffing nontheless.