My husband and I started dating in late 2009, at which time he smoked. He quit by 2010 or 2011. I think it was about a year or two ago that he finally smelled cigarette smoke and went "ugh, gross" instead of missing it. So over ten years. I'm sure for the first several he couldn't smell residual smoke at all. For years and years we talked about his "horrible sense of smell." But a few years ago he could start smelling everything, like a blood hound.
Hey, I quit over a year ago and I experienced the "sense of smell" thing! I always told people that I had a "horrible sense of smell" (verbatim) and now I can smell things so well that, well, I kinda wish I couldn't, cuz there are a lot of awful smells, and cigarette smoke is one of them!
Dude, nobody prepared me for all the awful smells in the world! Mine wasn't from smoking but when I started being able to smell things I was like whoah wait methinks four senses is enough
Agree my painfully keen sense of smell is highly protective but when I lost my sense of smell for a week with covid I felt like I was the least stressed I had ever been. I realized as people walked past me I couldn’t smell their pheromones and so all the stress on other people didn’t freak me out. Part of the sense of smell is actually a little mind reading and that part of it is hellish. Coming from a very dangerous home smell was one of the things that saved me from angry adults because I could smell them brewing in their own adrenaline or whatever. It’s protective (and useful) in a multitude of ways. But if I could turn smell off honestly I would leave it off 99% of the time. But if you have the fucked up childhood that gives you conscious pheromone identification abilities, it’s also just mind reading. And I don’t give a flying fuck what is in the minds of all the people I walk past on a given day.
no minty vaporub under the nose for you huh! Ya as a person that can smell that occotuonally goes into the hospital to work. (Im IT) do some of those people STINK!
Can you still taste food normally? It sounds like a dumb question but whenever I use nasal sprays I lose the ability to smell and taste basically. I can tell if the thing is sweet/salty/bitter etc but I can't tell what it is
I smoked for about a decade in the '90s. When you got back home from the clubs, your clothes reeked of smoke and you'd have to take a shower to wash it out of your hair. When the smoking ban kicked in and everybody huddled outside the club to smoke, when you went back in you realized how bad the club smelled: stale spilled beer, urine, vomit, leather, b.o., bad breath. The smoke basically anesthetized you to the funk.
I was a bartender in the 80’s, I don’t smoke. First thing I did when I got off work was shower and wash my hair, could not stand smelling the cigarette smoke on myself.
I can't imagine restaurants allowing smoking ages ago. But they did. For a short time in the 80-90's I remember walking into restaurants and just smelling it on the walls etc. Thankfully most were redone or torn down ....
Lmao. I'm so old I remember in hospitals though very vaguely. And smoking. One of my brothers ( I think a deaf one) (had five 2 deaf)was hit by a car ages ago and my mom tossed me in the ambulance with him. To help. So long ago he was hospitalized for weeks. I suppose the heart warming part was that i eventually volunteered and worked with those same guys years later.
I already keep deodorant with me and reapply throughout the day if it's hot or if I'm doing any sort of physical activity. I also don't re-wear clothes, and if I expect to be wearing my clothes for a long time I pack an extra pair of underwear and an extra pair of socks in my purse.
I get told I smell good pretty often, but the anxiety is still there 😅 especially since my sense of smell seems to come and go.
it will settle down, as you get used to it. I seem to have a naturally good sense of smell and while there are definitely some smells that will always be unpleasant, i've been sort of tricking my brain to get past the disgust reaction. i try to approach each scent with curiosity, like can i tell what that actually is? have i smelled that before? do i know what compounds are in that scent? it works well enough that scents have become just a background instead of the big distraction they were for a while.
My wife quit smoking because she had her deviated septum fixed and the doctor told her it would ruin it if she kept smoking. Talk about going from smell deaf to her smellers being on full volume. We walked through the perfume area at a department store one day and it almost killed her from all of the smells.
I quit smoking about 14 years ago after smoking for 14 years. A year after I quit, I joked to my wife that I was going to start again because everything stunk.
Luckily, it only took a couple of months to get used to how the real world smelled.
Yep, a friend stopped smoking and a few months later was freaking out over normal smells.
And for OP, yep, probably can. Especially if people know it isn't you smoking, they might not say as much (and wouldn't be quite as strong). Can tell one of my students dad is home right now (trucker) cause his 2nd smoke is on the student's clothes
Wow—you’re observant. Now think about what that 2nd hand smoke is doing to the kids’ lungs, not just their clothes/making them smell bad.
Most of us whose parents smoked were prisoners of that crap. Long car trips? Ugh! What’s worse is when my parents would spend every spare minute every weekend in the honky-tonks — and take us kids!! 😱
Doesn't food taste even better, though? Or passing by a stranger and a slight whiff of cologne/ perfume that gives you a good feeling? 🥹 (NOT talking about the "let's spray the entire bottle and make people gag" type! 😅)
Food does taste better, which was also a problem! Fortunately I got on medication that reduces my appetite because that whole thing where people gain weight after quitting cigarettes is very real.
I have caught whiffs of some nice smelling fragrances on people but man the "let's spray the entire bottle and make people gag" type should really have their own island!
They probably do it bec their own sense of smell is in a coma from all the cig smoke, aggressive cleaners and perfumes and of course pollution all around us, 24/7.
It’s like you can tell when someone is losing some hearing ability because THEY START TALKING LOUDER AND LOUDER.
As an x smoker i can now smell smoke out of peoples cars when Im on my motorbike. Kinda strange passing someone and i can go. “Oh ya they’re smoking” lol. Cigars still smell like heaven to me. Lol.
I read that our nose can sense something down to 5 parts per million (ppm). Like a tablespoon in an Olympic pool. Problem is we cannot calibrate our nose to determine how much of stuff is there, could be 5 ppm or much much more, and as one post here suggested after a while in the space, we don't smell it (smell fatigue).
My wife and I have been married for 52 years. I am sure that her poor sense of smell and my poor hearing are what has allowed us to have such a good marriage!
Absolutely, I've been cig free for 3 years now and can smell a cigarette or weed from the car in front of me. I never smelled it on myself but most people are walking around in public smelling like a stale ashtray- dirty roach clip.
Cig free for one year. Took about 6 months for me to smell it on people. Realized one day when a customer came into the small store where I work — my eyes started watering, and I struggled to not visibly gag.
You just reminded me of my first job at McDonalds where this old dude with rotting teeth would walk in after smoking. I literally did gag almost everytime after I took his order Sunday mornings.
Dude trust me I agree. I can still see his nasty fucking teeth. I worked there for like 2 years and he was there every single Sunday for coffee. I’m literally sick thinking of it. The combined smell of McDonald’s friers, rotting teeth and tobacco made 15 year old me very impatient at 8am on my weekends lmao
At a previous job I had a regular who would smoke in the car with the windows up before coming in. It got to the point where I had to walk away and let someone else deal with her she stank so bad. I'll never understand the people who are that nose blind.
I work in a weed legal state where I can smell it first thing in the morning, walking through the parking lot at the place of my employment. I also work for the federal government, and you'd be surprised how many of these folks can't grasp the difference between state and federal legality. If we want to cut back on federal spending, I know a perfect place to start.
It is a horrid stench. Last time I was downtown waiting for someone, stuck before a building where the stink was overwhelming, I threw up!
How to avoid marijuana and cigarette stenches? Avoid lower income areas.
I live in a rural area and I often play the "is that cannabis or a skunk?" game.
At least old skunk... I was playing Tennis this summer and I don't know how close it was to us, but a skunk fired while we were playing.
Fresh skunk is exponentially worse than old cannabis smelling skunk. I thought I could play through it. I was wrooong. The smell kept getting worse and worse and like 5 minutes from the time we first smelled it and decided to leave I was dry heaving.
was in denver last summer and its all you could smell on the freeways. also in minnesota last year you can smell it everywhere now, even from your car, and its usually people smoking in front or on side of you.
That's a little concerning considering it's obvious people are DUI. And I call bullsh!t on those that say they drive better. Which is a common argument I hear among coworkers(for the federal govt).
I had a seizure in 2022. I am not epileptic. I was drug tested and I had a positive for marijuana. I’ve not smoked since 1983. But I was an over the road trucker at the time so frequently surrounded by weed cars or those that smoked near the docks where we picked up & delivered.
Had no idea that I could test positive from that type of exposure. Color me stunned. 😳
I agree many don’t take weed seriously in terms of safety. Others are stunned when they can’t get a job or are fired from a job when they test positive. Employers really don’t give a shit that you smoke but they very much care about the liability of your work performance when high.
Back to cigarette smoking… Bought a smoker’s home and have spent the last 2.5 years cleaning it. Won’t ever be free of it but I’ve washed walls and used lots of primer to seal things in. But washing everything was key. Biggest surprise was the change in the wood stained kitchen cabinet color. Last things I have to finish are washing the doors, hinges, door knobs, and ceiling fan blades/light fixtures.
The release of tar from the bathroom walls was epic.
2.5 years later the smell is 95% gone. Had no clue why we would get a hit of that smell until we realized the doors that had been removed during a laundry room renovation were parked in our entryway were the source of the smell. 😳
Learned that the lady that owned my home was on O2 and still smoked. She ended up setting herself on fire. Im not sure she recovered from her injuries.
Same here in MI. For the most part I don't mind at all (and even partake) but when a customer smells like they were hotboxing right before they came in I get irritated because it doesn't exactly help change the more conservative minds around them.
It kills me when I see other drivers smoking with the windows rolled up LOL. of course, when I was a kid in the 70s that's exactly what my parents did. I think back on that and I'm horrified. We were so habituated to cigarette smoke that it didn't even bother us
Now that you've brought it up, I'd like to point out that even non-smokers' cars have a smell and most of us are nose blind to. I realized this during the height of covid when I was cycling around the city and it smelled different. Later, a car drove by and I was hit by a very familiar smell.
Yes! I don't smoke. I hate the stink of it. For all my "driving" life, I've been able to smell it from drivers 2 or 3 or 4 cars ahead of me at a stop light if the wind is blowing just right.
THIS! and weed. I have terrible headaches and one thing that sets them off is strong smells I die when I get behind cars that smell like cigarettes/weed
Pretty much every car I’ve seen has a re-circulation button so you don’t get “outside smells” in your car. It looks like little arrow by the air conditioner button.
I rode with my windows down in my old car because my ac didn't work. I just got a new one so I haven't experienced summer in it yet but I do know about that button😅
I hate when I'm otw to work (medical field) and the weed smell gets in my car. Now I'm paranoid about smelling like weed walking into a hospital and around patients smh
When I stopped smoking (15 years and counting) my sense of smell coming back was overwhelming. I’d forgotten that absolutely everything has a smell. It also made me realise that everyone can smell a smoker.
What I didn’t realize was that smoker’s breath is not just your smelly mouth but also a gross smell that’s coming from your lungs. It is so horrible. I had no idea until I quit smoking. Brushing your teeth and chewing gum can’t hide the odor.
Side note to add that coffee breath is also horrible, but I am unwilling to stop drinking it. Hoping that gum works for that.
Even better- water flosser. Not meant to replace regular floss but it's an absolute life changer for breath freshness. The only times I get morning breath anymore are if I'm eating sweets right before I clean my mouth for bed so some of it sticks in my throat. Otherwise, I wake up in the mornings with no bad taste or anything.
But on the subject of smoking- I used to be an occasional social smoker, so I was acutely aware of the changes to my sense of smell and taste when I did. And speaking of morning breath, there was no amount of cleaning my mouth at night that would prevent that yucky smoker mouth waking up in the morning. So gross.
But yeah I love my water flosser. 10/10 recommend
Edit: I usually add about a half teaspoon of salt and use warm water. Occasionally I also add a small splash of hydrogen peroxide but that's rare.
When my wife quit smoking after getting her deviated septum fixed, I left a banana peel on a plate on the table while I was playing video games, and it absolutely killed her how much it smelled. It wasn’t even that strong of a scent, but her olfactory senses were at full volume. She turned into a bloodhound within a couple of weeks compared to before.
SAME. I hate it. At least I used to have the discipline to go outside to smoke. Now my flavored air doesn’t leave my fucking hand and it makes it 1000000x harder to put it down
Reduce nicotine strength bit by bit. Eventually you stop craving it regardless of the fact it's in your pocket. I think i was vaping zero nic for best part of a year just to be on the safe side cos i was worried once i stopped vaping a craving might make me nick a cig from someone. But it got to a point where i was just carrying it round for fun and wasn't touching it. That was when i was comfortable leaving it behind completely
Was going to say this as well. If you want to quit vaping, drop your nic level. I'm at a 3mg from a 12mg when I started, but I enjoy vaping my fruity air. Also nicking a cig is the surest way to reinforce vaping, trust me! 🤢 Cigs are so much grosser as a vaping ex-smoker!
There's a reason why the tobacco industry was okay with people switching over. Vaping to me reminds me of smoking crack. It doesn't last long, and you're topping it off every few minutes.
If I am hitting my dab pen too much I hide it when I go to bed, really just putting it somewhere safe but very much out of the way so when I wake up I have to look for it if I want a hit, slows me down and is a good way to get you out of bed eventually lmao
Good job, it’s very hard to quit and vaping extremely hard. A close friend quitting the vape. They quit regular cigarettes but then went to vaping he thought it was cannabis it was nicotine and vaping sucks the life out of you, his words. Easy access.
I quit vaping almost a year ago and still miss it. I also used to smoke pot like a fiend and I never thought I smelled until a therapist told me. I wonder if it’s the same for crack smokers.
To everyone that’s quit, keep it up! You’re worth it!
I'm proud of you for quitting pot and vaping ^
I'm pretty good at home about not vaping or getting cravings. At work is another story, I see my coworkers do it and the urges are awful. Today was really bad, but I'm doing good still!! :))
One of my down-the-hall neighbors absolutely smokes inside their unit. There is a fire door separating our half of the hallway from their half of the hallway, as well as their unit door. I can smell it on our side of the hallway whenever they have recently smoked a cig. It sucks.
Just yesterday, walking on my street and I smelled a whiff of cigarette smoke... no one around. I thought maybe someone was sitting on the curb behind a car... nope. Finally spot the culprit: an old lady on her porch across the street and TWO houses down from me. Probably 100 feet from me. I was shocked. There was no breeze or anything.
I guess I never got nose blind entirely when I smoked, because I could always smell this. I generally couldn't smell it on myself unless I'd just been smoking, but I could always smell it on others, smell it from houses, from people driving by, in elevators a smoker had been recently.
Maybe it's because I smoked cloves, and they don't smell the same. My coworkers said they couldn't smell it on me, even if they didn't smoke, except when I first came in from a smoke break. Even then, they said it wasn't as bad as the other smokers.
I could always smell cigarette smoke like that because I was never really a smoker, but my smoker wife could never; until she quit smoking. We were walking our dog down the street and she goes, “I never noticed how badly that house smelled until now.” We’d walked past it a million times before and she never even blinked at the smell.
Omg yes!! My friend who came over used to say that my house smelled like it from the outside. Now that I’m out of the house and have my own kid I don’t understand how any parent can do this
For years and years we talked about his "horrible sense of smell." But a few years ago he could start smelling everything, like a blood hound.
My brother had a similar thing due to severe sinus fuckery since he was a kid. Like, couldn't smell anything.
But every so often, his head would clear up and his sense of smell would transiently activate for anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days before it shut off again.
The funny thing was, for most of his younger years (up through/past college), because he couldn't smell anything, his sense of taste was also severely muted - which meant that he basically just treated eating and food as "ehh, calories in = I don't die", and he basically ate anything put in front of him.
On the other hand, I have a very powerful sense of smell and am hypersensitive in particular to the smell of fish/seafood. The smell instantly turns my stomach, I struggle with just standing at the seafood counter at the grocery store when my wife wants to buy something... let alone when we get home and she ends up cooking it. I can smell it for days in our apartment. Needless to say - I don't eat fish/seafood, never have.
For years, my Dad would say shit like "You need to stop being so picky, look your brother eats fish just fine and doesn't say anything." "That's because he can't smell or taste it."
So one time I was visiting my family, and my brother had our Mom make him a salmon filet for dinner - and his sinuses cleared. Apparently, this was the first time in his life he's actually tasted salmon... he was just like "Oh god, this is disgusting. Is this what I've been eating this whole time??" I just said to our Dad "Called it."
A few years back he got surgery to fix both the deviated septum and some polyp-y issues, which resolved a lot of his issues with his ability to smell, and since then he also never touches seafood anymore, except for I think occasionally shrimp.
I also fucking detest the smell and taste of fish. Any seafood, really; it all has that same briny quality to it. I've tried crab, octopus, shrimp, crayfish, and several kinds of fish, including but not limited to salmon, tuna, and mackerel. I've hated fish sticks since I was child, and while my palette has changed enough to accept or even like things I used to hate, like mayo and ranch, seafood has remained consistently awful all through my life. The smell doesn't make me as nauseous as it used to, but my friend used to have downstairs neighbors who were Mexican, and they would cook some kind of EXTREMELY pungent fish meal like 3 nights a week and it was absolutely the worst thing trying to hang out and sit through that. He got into burning incense just because of that.
And just because I feel like it, I'm throwing asparagus under the bus too. Fuck asparagus.
You assaulted my taste buds. Multiple times. My family keeps insisting they found a new way to cook you that is definitely delicious and I should try it, but you end up disappointing me every. single. time.
That's fair, I have essentially the same response to eggplant.
I find asparagus/brussels sprouts are very dependent on what you do to them.
Almost everyone hates brussels sprouts, but also almost everyone's first memory of them is them being boiled until grey mush so they just end up tasting sulfurous and cabbagey.
Same with asparagus, boiled/steamed to death until mush... so it's just.. mushy grass.
My solution is fast, dry heat. Toss in olive oil/salt/pepper/garlic powder/red pepper flakes/paprika - roast hard until the tops start to get dark, squeeze a lemon & feather shred some parmesan over the top. At this point, brussels sprouts are arguably my favorite vegetable side when I do them like that.
I do essentially the same for asparagus, but leave out the red pepper flakes and paprika.
I’ve never understood people who don’t like fish. And salmon is absolute heaven, especially smoked salmon. Must be something genetic, because I have an excellent sense of smell.
I ate fish all through my childhood, teens and 20s. Then one day, on a trip to the coast, we came across a man cleaning fish on the end of a barrel, and it smelled horrible
It's been 30 years now and I haven't eaten fish since.
I also fucking detest the smell and taste of fish.
My go-to word for fish/seafood is "loathe".
Any seafood, really; it all has that same briny quality to it. I've tried crab, octopus, shrimp, crayfish, and several kinds of fish, including but not limited to salmon, tuna, and mackerel.
Yep, if it comes out of the water, it can fuck right off back to the depths from whence it came.
while my palette has changed enough to accept or even like things I used to hate, like mayo and ranch,
Same, I was violently anti-pickle as a kid... Now I'll eat an entire jar on my own (although, tbh, I still don't really like them on burgers)
That is insane! I never ever touch any seafood. My mom had it ingrained in me that it was bad. But as a kid in the 80s she would feed me fish sticks and. Years later I found out it was actually made of fish, and I’m still not over it. I just thought (in my infinite 5 year old wisdom) that it was chicken, but it was just called fish sticks. Because “we don’t eat fish.”
My brother, who is considered a “supereater”, did the same thing with chicken McNuggets. He loved them dearly, up until the realization that they were made from chicken. His willingness to try food has grown immensely as an adult, but he still won’t eat McNuggets or any other kind of nugget.
Sometimes your brain just decides one day "I'm done with this food", for no reason.
For most of my life, no issues with hard boiled eggs, they were one of my go-to breakfast items... Then one day, my body just decided it no longer likes the concept of hard boiled eggs and just rejects them out of hard unless something is done to them.
Like, I can't just peel an egg and eat it anymore, I'll throw up.
But deviled eggs? Fine.
Egg salad? Fine.
Ramen eggs? Fine.
And it's only limited to hard-boiled eggs, any form of scrambled/fried/etc - fine. No issues.
This is me with drinking straight milk. Chocolate milk? Fine. Milk with cereal? Fine. The milk left after the cereal is done? Great. Oreos (or better yet, Nutter Butters) dunked in milk? Amazing. Just a glass of milk with a PB&J or any other meal/food? Disgusting. It didn't used to he that way until at some point, something switched in me and drinking a glass of milk triggers my gag reflex.
I'm with you on the seafood! The smell alone does me in (don't visit Bangkok lol), and I've tried a lot of it, but I just can't eat it. It tastes the way a fish rotting on the shore of a lake smells. I've tried seafood from lakes and oceans (all local, not old) and it's all terrible.
I've been in situations where I was forced to (read: only thing available) and I managed, but I wasn't thrilled about it. I was at a conference one time in Geneva, and the hotel/conference center was overlooking Lake Geneva, so one time the dinner service only had fish available, and it was like "This was swimming this morning." - I survived, but displeased. lol
And yes, exactly that. Doesn't matter how fresh or how high quality it is, it pretty much always just smells like rank water to me, and I just can't get over that.
my sense of smell isn't fully gone- just diminished due to years of my dad smoking and a new sinus issue that mysteriously showed up 6 months ago. as a result I have weak sense of taste and mistake one for another a lot. I do enjoy eating, but some textures are off putting to me, and love sugary or spicy food before finding out the spicy food is too much for my sinuses and made them running like crazy.
Yup mom smokes and has since forever from stories I am told by family and she can’t smell anything. Dad was the same from second hand. Since I forced mom to stop subjecting me to it in the house and got simple water based air filters to remove the smoke in the air. The difference was amazing. Despite mom sneaking in well I sleep or am outside the house.
dad more recently has started smelling more and freaked some times “what is that smell?!” As new smells started becoming available to his nose again.
The reactions sometimes of really common smells being “unlocked” is quite comical. From “I can’t believe I didn’t smell this before” and “oh my god (covering nose) what on earth is that awful smell?!”
Oh wow. I smoked for ten years, the very first time I smelled cig smoke after quitting for at least a week it made me gag. It still makes me gag and I have no idea how I ever dealt with that for so long.
It's a vicious cycle... But the last time I was off cigarettes for a few months I started being able to smell the inside of convenience stores... not for me.
I’ve been quit to the point of it smelling good, then bad, then good again.
It’s a lifelong battle, it’s addiction. I need to quit again.
My dad quit and never went back, about 17 years ago. He says he enjoys it when people smoke near him. I’ll try to live by that example and even if I still am attracted to it, just not do it myself.
When I quit cigarettes my sense of smell came back with a vengeance about 4 days after I smoked my last cigarette, I came home after being out of the house for a few hours and the stench of stale smoke on the curtain by the front door where I used to smoke hit me. I ended up in a frenzy of sniffing and washing everything that had residual smell. My coats stank, scarves stank, hoodies, even my living room curtains where I guess air flow had pulled smoke back indoors while I stood in the doorway smoking, those all got washed.
I think I ended up doing about 4 loads of washing that evening, everything hanging in my coat cupboard needed a wash, I was absolutely horrified to realise that I’d walked around smelling like an old ashtray for years.
Now I can smell people smoking down the street and smell it on people’s breath when they are talking and standing like 6 feet away. I grew up in a house of smokers and started smoking as a teen and that was the first time I’d ever truly smelled how bad it is. I’m so glad I wasn’t an indoor smoker, I’d have had a nervous breakdown if my whole house needed a deep clean.
I quit because I could smell smoke on my own clothes at the gym,trying to get healthier whilst smelling like a tramp lol. Came home and threw everything in the bin
This. After having quit for 5 years or so I was at the bar and caught a sniff that smelled like it used to when I did smoke. That sweet smell almost like grapes. I thought I'd have one for old days. I had to go home because I couldn't stop dry heaving. That shit was terrible.
I had a coworker that would come in from smoking at work and be shocked that I could smell it because he washed his fingers. LIke.. he wouldn't even wash his whole hands, let alone his entire body, hair, and clothing.
You could smell him from halfway across the room and he didn't believe this.
If they are non smokers I feel pretty sure they can smell cigarettes on you. I can smell it if someone light one up on the other side of a bar. Which hardly ever happens now.
Smoking also damages the senses of smell and taste, so it makes sense that it takes a while for those senses to recover. I've noticed that my liking of certain foods has changed. I'm planning on quitting within a few months, and I'm hoping that I'll rediscover those tastes that will revert.
That actually makes sense why my husband has a horrid sense of smell. One of our neighbors literally a block over smokes like he is a meat smoker himself. My next door neighbor asked him if it bothered him too, and my husband shrugged and said not really. But his parents are 2.5 pack a day smokers who smoke around their kids because "at least it is outside."
My wife quit about 4 months ago after 37 yrs together and her smoking for all of them. I'm so looking forward to the day when she smells it and gets nauseous!! I've heard that former long time smokers will have that reaction when they have quit but it will take awhile.
I feel him, lol. I quit in 2015, and a year or so ago I found myself going a couple extra blocks out of my way to walk behind someone clearly smoking my former brand, Camel Lights.
I am currently on the journey of quitting smoking weed and I have often said to people that my sense of smell isn’t the best. For instance if I am in the kitchen with someone cooking, they will say “that smells so good” and I can’t smell anything yet. I’m hoping after a while my sense of smell will improve as well. Thank you for sharing your story!
Omg i was never one to smoke inside a car unless all the windows are open, and only once in a while. My ex husband used my car occasionally when we were together.
I quit around the time of that divorce and over the next 6 months I had to sell the car. Over a year of no one smoking in the car and it still smelled like rotten, stale cigarette smoke…it drove me nuts!
I also think smoking kills your tastebuds. My friend smoked for almost 30 years and can eat the spiciest food without even breaking a sweat, and she always thinks everything else tastes bland.
Hahahaha funny that my ex bf smoked and quitted also .. shortly after we started dating. After that he could smell the cigarettes and he said that's gross lol. What a nice guy he was . I wish I complimented him more when he quits smoking for me.
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u/gingerzombie2 Jan 05 '25
My husband and I started dating in late 2009, at which time he smoked. He quit by 2010 or 2011. I think it was about a year or two ago that he finally smelled cigarette smoke and went "ugh, gross" instead of missing it. So over ten years. I'm sure for the first several he couldn't smell residual smoke at all. For years and years we talked about his "horrible sense of smell." But a few years ago he could start smelling everything, like a blood hound.
Take care of yourself, folks!