Has your voice changed?
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I've been thrilled that my voice is changing...but, being female, I never thought about how I'd feel if I was a guy, LOL.
Seriously, it's the biggest change I'm happy with. I wasn't coughing as a smoker...unusual considering I was 54 yrs old and smoked 1-2 packs a day for 38 years. But my voice was getting raspy...you know, that smoker's voice. I kept seeing those commercials with the guy with the artificial voicebox singing about how there's worse things than dying from cancer from smoking...scared me to death.
So I'm really glad my voice has changed...back to what it was!
Seriously, it's the biggest change I'm happy with. I wasn't coughing as a smoker...unusual considering I was 54 yrs old and smoked 1-2 packs a day for 38 years. But my voice was getting raspy...you know, that smoker's voice. I kept seeing those commercials with the guy with the artificial voicebox singing about how there's worse things than dying from cancer from smoking...scared me to death.
So I'm really glad my voice has changed...back to what it was!
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Hahah! Hey, well that's better than the person at a drive thru asking "would you like anything else sir?" my godmother has that happen when we get fast food when she's in townglowgirl said:
Yes it has, I used to sing in public performances quite often. I havent done that for years because of loosing my voice due to smoking.
The other day I discovered that it is coming back! Amazing stuff ecigs
The other day I discovered that it is coming back! Amazing stuff ecigs
I had laryngitis the other day and my son said I sounded like Harvey Fierstein. Does that count?
"Just don't talk, Mom! It sounds creepy!"
*low, gravelly, rasp....* "What's wrong, honey?"
"Just don't talk, Mom! It sounds creepy!"
*low, gravelly, rasp....* "What's wrong, honey?"
I never sang in public, but I love to sing and slowly, over the past two years or so, couldn't do it at all...my throat would just close up tight as a clam.
Since quitting smoking two plus months ago, I've found I can actually sing again...almost, anyway, lol. It's like being reborn... or at least going backwards in time. Isn't it great?
Since quitting smoking two plus months ago, I've found I can actually sing again...almost, anyway, lol. It's like being reborn... or at least going backwards in time. Isn't it great?
Croaking with Charlie Pride to soaring with Juice Newton. Yes, my voice changed slightly. Half a century later, I can hit the same notes I could when I was 16. Pity I still can't carry a tune, though. 
As someone who sings often, the only changes I've noticed is that my range returned to close to what I had in high school choir... So ...yes. ^_^ Sadly I have not regained my pre-puberty soprano...Still a nice healthy range baritone though.
Great question, Xanax.
I really hadn't thought about it before, but yes. After nearly 10 months with only the occasional .... with a friend or two, I tried singing a song I used to lead teach at school, and I had no problem with the high notes. And, I think the growl is gone.
I'll have to ask my sister when I visit her this summer if she notices a difference.
Cheers,
mhikl
I really hadn't thought about it before, but yes. After nearly 10 months with only the occasional .... with a friend or two, I tried singing a song I used to lead teach at school, and I had no problem with the high notes. And, I think the growl is gone.
I'll have to ask my sister when I visit her this summer if she notices a difference.
Cheers,
mhikl
Vaping hasn't changed my voice. But my voice does change on its own throughout the course of the day. Three cups of coffee takes my voice to a low rumbling growl to a high-pitched whine.
And no, I can't give up the coffee!
And no, I can't give up the coffee!
That's wonderful. I'd be curious to know what sorts of juices you prefer, and I could check your previous posts to figure that out if you don't mind. Prefer not to do that with folks unless they're ok with it, even though it's all public information
I'm curious about PG / VG ratios and nicotine content mainly. Maybe you're on to something. I would expect smoker-voice to improve just with quitting, but perhaps the PG / VG actually has a healing effect on the throat. I know PG is a humectant but maybe you over-compensate for that by drinking more fluids and perhaps the PG has a protective / anti-oxidant sort of effect. Wouldn't that be something if free radicals got trapped in it and were easily coughed out?
Edit: I've quit smoking about 0.75 times for every year I've smoked (about 15 yrs) and there are various reasons, but big contributing factors for temporary quitting included the desire to exercise more without mortal lung pain and asthma-like wheezing, and the desire to sing more without getting a sore throat afterwards
I think I do have more range when I don't smoke, but I don't notice a marked change in my voice after quitting (in some cases 6 months to a year)
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seems logical to me.....think of your vocal chords as a pork roast.....now suspend that pork roast in a smoker.....it obviously changes it's composition and becomes a ham.....unlike the ham, your vocal chords are living cells and can restore themselves after the smoke is removed......so, you can now be a ham, because your vocal chords are no longer hams.....
Yes. I use to sing harmony and some leads in my bands over the years but stopped totally several years ago because I couldn't hit the higher notes any longer. I've been noticing lately that I can hit most of those notes again. Throat feels clearer, plus I have greater lung capacity now to push for higher notes.
I've been in bands in the past, but not in the last 5+ years. Typically I'd do a fair amount of harmony singing (generally the low part), but would be anybody's third or fourth choice at best as lead singer in a four-piece band. What I found was that I could hit it fine, despite smoking, if I was doing it on a regular basis. But the combination of smoking and inactivity of the past several years really has taken its toll when I have done the occasional gig or jam. Having, at this point, cut way down to 4-5 cigarettes a day for several mos, I see some signs of my range coming back. If/when I pull off the full quit, I think the benefits will be considerable.
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