I think what was happening was that I was smoking so much more often than I really wanted that I found I was also ramping up in strength more often. Eventually it appeared to me that so many full strength smokes may have "burned out" my taste buds.
just seemed that I could no longer appreciate a nice south-of-med/full smoke. Fortunately as I was thinning my inventory and debating whether to quit, I cut way back and focused more on my Cubans and a few other good cigars in that general strength zone.
I continued to shred my stock, actually got to zero maybe a year, year and a half ago, and between very limited purchasing and a few raoks was close to 80 or so. Currently around 50 and a chunk of that was cuz clickbangdead sent triple what he should have after I relented and let him "even us up".
so I can now enjoy mild/med up to med/full but do not enjoy real full at all. Though I can enjoy them again, I know I'm still missing stuff I used to taste. For example, X000 Padron maddies aren't what they used to be for me, and I used to think if I could only have one make cigar for the rest of my life it would be them. Now, meh, OK but no longer wonderful. Don't know where the mocha/coffee went.
That's my theory of what happened.
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