After 2 Weeks What a Surprise

[Keithhe]

After just over 2 weeks have had no wish to go back to my 30+ Year 2-1/2 PAD killer. That though was not the surprise as the first time I tried this I could tell it would work fine.

The surprise came by way of my brothers visit to my home a few days ago. He too being a 30+ Year 2 PAD smoker. The second he walked through the door I was about knocked over from the smoke smell he carried even at a distance. I could never have smelled that before, but was just floored by it.....and only after 2 weeks. Since he didn't know I had quit, and I used the opportunity to show him this E-Cig alternative, I did allow him to smoke in my house and wish I had not. Don't know if I sold him, but will keep it up, and told hime hence forward that the house was non-smoking.

Yesterday I met a friend, relative light smoker to go over this with him. When I me him for lunch, he was smoking a cigarette outside and I found it foul to be downwind from him and kept moving as the wind blew to avoid the smoke.


What huge surprise to figure out that was what I was like just a mear 2 weeks ago.


No looking back, I'm a proud non-smoker now and will keep it that way. Curious if outhers have experience this too?

 

[Curlin]

I know exactly how you feel. I always thought people were being overly sensitive. I too was smoking about as long and about as much as you.

 

[lerlosai]

once u hit the E u'll find analog smoking stinks

 

[Keithhe]

It was not even on my mind, or a consideration at all. That's why this was such a huge surprise to me.

 

[MorpheusPA]

I seriously thought non-smokers and ex-smokers were full of it when they complained about the smell.

Then I changed to vaping. About a month in, I went to the grocery store and the wind was blowing from the northwest, where the smokers hang out. I thought something foul was on fire, like the garbage pile.

Nope, just smokers. I can now detect if somebody smokes from a distance of at least six feet. I try not show any reaction to it, but I can certainly tell.

 

[Dave S]

Know exactly what you mean Keithhe, isn't it great to be a non-smoker. You can't imagine how long I have wanted to be able to say that and now here I am saying just that.

 

[juicejunky]

I don't necessarily think of the smell as something foul, just very distinctive like the smell of gasoline. When I am in the right mood I even kind of like the smell, sort of brings back pleasant memories. After all I did love to smoke.

My father was bragging about how his accountant gave up smoking cold turkey vs me using a crutch like vaping. The next day we picked her up for lunch and I picked up the smoke smell on her before she even got in the car. My father a never-smoker was clueless about the odor. Maybe our brains have better radar to detect the smell since we know all too well what it is?

Congrats Keithhe on the two weeks. 2 1/2 PAD no longer in your life, that is quite an accomplishment.

 

[Keithhe]

I keep telling everyone, and keep trying to spread the word to those I know that still smoke.

 

[Cicada]

I keep telling everyone, and keep trying to spread the word to those I know that still smoke.

awesome!

and agreed -- i know a lot of vapers that came off the smokes, and after just a few days they already found the taste/smell of cigarettes gross.

 

[MorpheusPA]

My father was bragging about how his accountant gave up smoking cold turkey vs me using a crutch like vaping. The next day we picked her up for lunch and I picked up the smoke smell on her before she even got in the car. My father a never-smoker was clueless about the odor. Maybe our brains have better radar to detect the smell since we know all too well what it is?

I like my crutch. It keeps things from hurting while I heal.

In his defense, smoke smell just HANGS on stuff. At week four, I had to pull every item from my armoire and closet and wash them. I had my coats cleaned. I cleaned the rugs and scrubbed the furniture. I could actually smell smoke in all of them.

 

[Keithhe]

I like my crutch. It keeps things from hurting while I heal.

In his defense, smoke smell just HANGS on stuff. At week four, I had to pull every item from my armoire and closet and wash them. I had my coats cleaned. I cleaned the rugs and scrubbed the furniture. I could actually smell smoke in all of them.

That's the odd part for me. I smoked in my house, but I can't detect it at all. I have also been doing the cleaning thing, as we all know how smoke stains everything, but expect that will be a long procee.

 

[juicejunky]

That's the odd part for me. I smoked in my house, but I can't detect it at all. I have also been doing the cleaning thing, as we all know how smoke stains everything, but expect that will be a long procee.

So true. It takes years. I was doing a photo project the other day and picked up a stainless steel ruler I hadn't used in years and it had that slightly sticking golden film all over it. It felt good to clean it up knowing it would stay that way. I have a walk-in closet of equipment and bags that still has the smell in there. Someday I will tackle it, but probably not worth washing all the equipment bags. I just walk in there and think "glad I quit" and make sure I shut the door when I'm done.

 

[Keithhe]

I think my dry cleaning bills will outweigh my vaping for a while.

 

[avetter11]

Yeah, while out on the bike when passing a car with a smoker, I can smell smoke before I'm even beside them. AMAZING how sensitive we become to it.

 

[Beccca]

I know if my dear dog could talk she would thank me over and over again. Becca

 

[MorpheusPA]

I know if my dear dog could talk she would thank me over and over again. Becca

Ditto. Particularly with the sensitivity of their noses!

We have two Bichons, who love to be attached to you. One of ours would decamp from me if I lit up (the other just turned around and presented me with his rear end as he lay back down).

Now that I vape they don't bother moving. They occasionally sniff at the vapor, but it doesn't seem to attract or repel them at all.

 

[graybuck]

I don't necessarily think of the smell as something foul, just very distinctive like the smell of gasoline. When I am in the right mood I even kind of like the smell, sort of brings back pleasant memories. After all I did love to smoke.

My father was bragging about how his accountant gave up smoking cold turkey vs me using a crutch like vaping. The next day we picked her up for lunch and I picked up the smoke smell on her before she even got in the car. My father a never-smoker was clueless about the odor. Maybe our brains have better radar to detect the smell since we know all too well what it is?

Congrats Keithhe on the two weeks. 2 1/2 PAD no longer in your life, that is quite an accomplishment.

I know several people that say they have quit and to me still smell like smoke. Either they are not being real honest or they live with another smoker. My guess is they are too embarased to admit they could not keep it going and started back smoking.

 

[Keithhe]

I know if my dear dog could talk she would thank me over and over again. Becca

Great point. I'm sure Ginnie, pictured to left, is happier now too. She would always go to another room when I smoked and now is sitting right beside me sleeping. This vaping seems to have no effect on her. One more big win !!!

 

[Disconnect]

My cat is mad at me for quitting, but that is because he used to go outside whenever I did and now he can't. It might balance though, he keeps trying to get into the fog and sniff it. (Menthol is his favorite.) Obviously I try to keep him out of it, and SERIOUSLY don't let pets near the raw juice..

 

[Thucydides]

Welcome to the forums, and congratulations on quitting. I started vaping many years after I quit smoking, but I was a reluctant non-smoker, always enjoying the smell and envying those around me who still smoked. I started vaping, and for the first time I can remember I started seeing smoking in a whole different light. The smell, the ash, the smoke became repulsive. Once I started vaping, it was literally like someone flipped a light switch and turned off my attraction to smoking.