About 3 weeks into not smoking at all my house just reeked. I went through the entire place and steamed cleaned everything. Even shot the steam in the closets onto everyone's clothes. It was horrible. Now I'm eyeballing the nic and tar on my walls. They used to be a nice shade of off white. Now they are yellow. But I think a paint job this Spring will be easier than scrubbing all these walls. I prided myself on saying I would never be one of those snob x-smokers but when I get around peeps that still smoke sometimes I have to back away. The smell still bothers me but frankly not as much as it did when I first quit. Seems to have tapered off somewhat.
Hiya, Joan! Make sure when you do your paint 'spruce up' to get rid of nicotine, that you use the special paint w primer built in, or that nicotine will ooze right back out onto your pretty new paint. Ug.
And yeah, I don't know what the correlation is between severe fibro and the super sense of smell that turns into crazy chemical sensitivities, but it definitely exists. But boy, there's a lot of us who are or know someone with serious fibro, here! Oh, and as for the cat odor vs. chemical odors... I dont' understand it at all, but most serious cleaning products don't bother me at all, cat smells, not in the slightest.. but let someone spray one single spray of perfume across the whole house thru 3 closed doors and with an exhaust fan on in bath and an air cleaner in my room, and I'll wake up out of a sound sleep choking. Its nuts, I tell ya! Nuts! rofl Some smells just drive me nuts, and some don't bother me at all. Weird.
I didnt get all the way thru the thread today, but caught some people talking about tanks? I recently got a chibi from parkes, just to make 100% sure that I like em, but can't wait to get one of these transparent colored tank beauties from Nhaler. They're SOOOO pretty! I rather like the looks of tanks anyway, but these pretty translucent colored ones are outstanding. I think I need two. One for VV Mango Mint Julep, and one either for VV Blueberry Cheesecake or Organic Strawberry Shortcake (that's not a VV one, but one i DIY). I know they're not overly subtle looking, but I think they're just so gorgeous! And love the idea that you can use them again and again just by swapping the carto inside. I need to get one of those carto punching tools from hardware store, though, so I can stop buying em pre-punched.
And thanks, Minx, for the low down on the VV mods! I want a provari, I really do, but i just can't justify that kinda expense, I don't think. So looking like it'll be the lava tube if the silver ones look nicer to me than the black, or else I'll have to spend a tiny bit more and get the infinity or the buzzpro. Either way, probably gonna happen a bit after xmas expenses, but want to have it all planned out so I can hunt for a sale.
Now that I've been months without a cigarette, some days I vape in the morning and forget I even vape until the evening. As for nicotine strength ... I do prefer 24mg nic/ml. That said, I'm not particularly a "Mazy the 24 hour a dazy high nic. vapin crazy" 
FWIW, I consider 1 gallon the minimum amount of water I can drink a day, and that's assuming I'm not drinking any coffee or alcohol or exerting myself. A gallon might sound like a lot but that's only 8 pints. I like to drink a quart when I wake up, a quart before bed and preferably a quart with every meal. Shrug it off if you will, but when I get cravings it's for books and I struggle to gain weight 
You wanna know what's in those happy pills? Water!
