Cant taste flavors as well

[ladysnus]

I've been smoking since I was 13 and text month I will be 42! I'm guessing my body is in shock and my brain still trying to sort everything out.

[ladysnus]

My sense of smell got better, but that's about it(and a double edged sword at that :^P)

"Who farted?" :evil:
sorry, ladies present.

I think it was twas the dog

[Raddleman]

I've been smoking since I was 13 and text month I will be 42! I'm guessing my body is in shock and my brain still trying to sort everything out.

Well good for you, so glad you found snus. Pity it's not very well publicized. I'm sure your body and mind is just adjusting to a healthier life. Your lungs will be breathing a sigh of relief. IMO it's not important that your tastes are changing, compared to your quitting the smoke. My advice is just ride the waves How long has it been off the cigs, ladysnus?

[ladysnus]

23 days now. In the first week tho, maybe a few puffs off a cig 1 time each day and then I put it out.

I like the no sweets me...i think i will continue not try them

MONEY SAVED ON SWEETS= bushels
More money to spend on me favorite snus
hopefully many pounds lost= good plan :wink:

[sagedil]

LOL, as someone who is back on a serious diet for the first time in 6 years, and have lost 10 pounds so far, good for you.

I am only a year older than you, but started smoking 4 years before you did when I was 9. I put on 40 pounds after I stopped smoking with snus 2 years ago (reason I am back on diet now). I really don't know if that is from the quitting smoking, the extreme poverty and totally messed up eating habits that came from that last year, or just the emotions of going through my divorce these past two years.

I do know that this time around, the weight is taking MUCH longer to come off than when I lost 60 pounds 6 years ago. I suspect that not smoking has something to do with it. But it doesn't really matter, my addictive personality has taken over the dieting thing now, and I WILL see it through, even if it takes me 8 months.

Definitely give the LD Black another try in about a month. As I keep seem to be posting today, your snus tastes will range all over the map, especially in your first few months of using. What you don't like today, you really may find you love in a month or two.

[TBD]

Ladysnus, I'm with you. Since I quit smoking my sense of smell improved and my tastes changed. I don't like sweet nearly as much. I haven't had raw sugar candy in almost a year, and cake about once a month.

I believe that smoking affects our taste buds so much that we tend to like strong flavors, like licorice, or sour, or sweet. Now that our taste buds are recovering, we tend to enjoy the more subtle flavors more because we can again notice them. That may be why some many snussers find that after months of snussing they can taste all kinds of flavors in snus that they didn't at first.

Just a thought or two.

[ladysnus]

the one thing my brain knows about taste.... Catch had better continue their Mint Vanilla

[ladysnus]

Well I'm glad your with me TBD. I thought I was standing alone.
How long has it been since you quit smoking?

[TBD]

Well I'm glad your with me TBD. I thought I was standing alone.
How long has it been since you quit smoking?

About 3 months with some relapses. I am one that quit gradually. I went from 1.5-2 packs day .5 pack to 0 over a 3-4 month period. The main reason I quit was the things I could now smell, it was like in the movies when the blind guy gets his sight back, all the wonderful and strange things I hadn't noticed before or not for years anyway. I did have to invest in a variety of air freshening sprays for the water closet. :roll:

[Yamaha760]

Both my sense of smell and taste improved after quitting cigarettes. Fountain cokes are waaaayyyy too sweet for me now. One of the smells I found odd was Fritos. I ripped open a bag....and expected the corn smell. Well...there's a lot more to it than just corn. I have noticed that if I eat anything with chocolate it seems to dull the flavor of my snus. Like eating a hand full of M&M's. I actually taste the portion material before the tobacco. I also think that any sweetened drink changes the flavor of snus. I agree with the others about drinking water.