Do you now find that smokers stink?

[clyde2801]

Smoked a pack a day for 22 years (with a couple of brief respites). Been vaping since mid December. Currently have no intention of quitting the vaping, etc. Will occasionally have a stink stick irregularly every once in a while, every 3-4 days. Someone has bought a new brand and offers me one. I smoke it, shrug, and go back to my PV. I don't really stand outside in smoking areas anymore (Frak it, it's COLD outside!) but discreetly vape indoors.

The damnest thing has started to happen to me now. Yesterday, my office manager went outside to have a cigarette, came back and was standing behind me as I was typing something on my computer. I found the cigarette smell on him to be unpleasant, if not faintly nauseating.

I wake up before my wife, who hasn't given up analogs despite the 905 I bought her. She's still asleep, snoring (doubtlessly aggravated by smoking), and I turn over and realize, ugh, I can smell where she smoked recently.

I'm not a clean air nazi or a born again breather, but is anyone else finding that smoking and smokers...stink?

 

[beecee]

Yeah I can so smell everyone that smokes. It's very stinky.

I can't stand walking through the doors of malls, stores, etc where the ashtray is overflowing with half lit cigs and filters burning away in it like a bonfire. pew

Now I know what non-smokers were always complaining about...

 

[BlueBloodedCatFan]

I have definitely noticed the smell....I can even still smell it in my car where I haven't smoked in nearly a month! It is funny, the longer I go without smoking, the further away from the smoker I can be and still smell it.

 

[Lab]

Same here .. if it is a fresh burning cig.. I kind of like the smell but as far as ppl walking by that smoke it stinks.. if the smoke from your wife is bothering you go buy some sort of odor eliminator and ask her to spray it where she smokes because it makes you want a cig.. that way you do not look like a ... telling her it stinks

 

[MacArthurBug]

+1 on that. Can't STAND that stale smoke stank. I'll put up with it 'cause one of my only "Real world" friends is still smoking (If I had the fundage I'd buy her a kit, but she's not won over yet) and still smells like smoke. I lurve her so I deal, but with strangers? I'm very concious of that smell.

 

[keyzygirl]

My friends still smoke,now when I choose my seat,I first check the wind direction.

 

[Remie]

I never thought I'd say this, because I never minded the smell of cigarette smoke... I rather like the smell of a lit ciggie... so I thought...

Now, after 30+ days totally smoke-free, I can smell cigarettes on people, I can smell it lingering where someone recently smoked and I'm smacked with the stale cigarette smell where people stand around and smoke.

My boyfriend hasn't jumped on the vaping-train yet, but is weaning himself off fire-sticks. He doesn't smoke that much but, OMG - is that the way I used to smell? My breath was really like an ashtray? The minute he walks in the door and I get close to him I can immediately smell it, and it's really not appealing.

He, OTOH has repeatedly remarked that I smell good, that my breath is minty, that my hair smells good... I can't remember anyone ever telling me I smelled good!

It makes me feel rather nasty to think that I used to smell like that - everywhere I went, people smelled that stale-clingy-cigarette stench on me. My hair, my clothes... my breath.

I am so over the smell of a freshly lit ciggie making me want to smoke. I can sit and watch people smoking and have absolutely no desire and it's the weirdest thing.

I too am in no way a clean-air-nazi or born-again-breather - but yeah, cigarette stench has become noticeable, and rather unpleasant and sometimes repulsive.

 

[Stephaniems]

I went over to a smokers house other night and when I got home I ended up having to change clothes because of the smoke smell on them, I was suprised on how bad it bothered me.

 

[Shortstuff116]

An emphatic "YES"!

I'm amazed at how easily I can also smell all of the above and to think that I once smelled that way and made everything around me smell that way is surprising. I used to be a very courteous smoker in that I would always be aware of anyone close enough to me to be sure that my smoke always went away from them. There's been more than a few times I've held my cigarette over my head just to be courteous.

I hope that I do not become one of those people with an "anti-smoking" attitude, but at the same time I'm beginning to find the smell of cigarette smoke offensive for the first time in my life. In the meantime, I'll just casually move away from them.

Oh, and there was a local woman on the news last night who is going to court to sue her neighbors and realtor. She purchased a condo (one half upstairs) and has repeatedly asked the guys downstairs not to smoke in their house but of course they ignore her requests (I don't blame them). So she's making a huge fuss about it and I will be following this closely to see what the outcome is. If I were a judge I'd immediately throw the case out because I don't feel she has a case but we'll see.

 

[bugzy1977]

yep, i can't stand the stale tobacco smell

i don't mind fresh tobacco smoke smell though

 

[Haytoni]

I sure do, and I smoked for over 60 years, went to PV first part of Jan this year, and have to agree, those analog smokers stink, walking up to the front of Wal-Mart, the smell was overpowering. I at one time contributed to it. Never smoked in my house, thankfully.

 

[FrogHat]

The title of the thread is an understatement.

 

[BradSmith]

I am in a band and often sing into the same mic with a smoker I never noticed it before but I sure do now and not in a good way8-o

 

[Cicatrize]

For some reason, I don't mind the lingering smoke smell in the spot that the cigarette was smoked, but the smell on the person is horrid. I can't believe I smelled like that for 9 years. YUCK

 

[potholerepairman]

Smoke now reminds me of the older generation in a weird way.When I was a kid the only time you smelled smoke was around grownups so its like looking back or getting my youth back dont know which yet.If its in a confined space have never like the smell but passing someone in a store now it just reminds me of relatives that have since moved on.

 

[Cicatrize]

I am in a band and often sing into the same mic with a smoker I never noticed it before but I sure do now and not in a good way8-o

Hmm, I should maybe take into consideration "breaking even" on my banner, since your savings are negative. lol

I'll work on that today

 

[BradSmith]

Hmm, I should maybe take into consideration "breaking even" on my banner, since your savings are negative. lol

I'll work on that today

I was a roll your own guy so a carton a week was still less than $20. I'm sure it will eventually even out and I would gladly stay in the negative and just be glad to see how many cigs I have not put in my system.

 

[River]

That is the number one reason for me that vaping works so well. All the times I quit smoking before that smell was enticing, now it's foul.

No other method of quitting will ever be able to match that effect and that's why you hear about so many success stories here.

 

[Kilroy]

Yeah, I avoid the smoking area at work and the entrances to malls that have ash receptacles. It really is an unpleasant odor.

 

[Krythis]

Definitely! I'm trying to get my gf to convert, can't stand the smell now. And I can still taste it on her lips well after she smoked. Luckily I didn't smoke in my new car and we painted the apartment and stopped smoking inside a couple months ago.