Just quizzing ya'll.....

[Michele]

So how long did it take for YOUR taste buds and smell to return after smoking for "X" number of years???

 

[four2109]

I don't know but I wish I had kept a journal of this experience. Benchmarks, etc.

 

[Michele]

so far....little to no taste and very little smell at all. Day 14.

but....what has changed is that I CAN smell cigarettes for the first time in many many years.

 

[GregH]

About 2 weeks for the sense of smell to start coming back. It took about another week for the sense of taste to start coming back.

I'm now at 8 weeks (today, actually) and am smelling things I hadn't noticed in years. I'm loving it. Mostly.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Same here. About two weeks.

 

[happily]

About 2 weeks for the sense of smell to start coming back. It took about another week for the sense of taste to start coming back.

I'm now at 8 weeks (today, actually) and am smelling things I hadn't noticed in years. I'm loving it. Mostly.

I am also smelling thing's I hadn't noticed in years and they are not pleasant....

 

[nonstinky]

I never really could tell taste or smell, even before when I had a two year quit. But real cigarette smoke IS real strong, even when in traffic from another vehicle!

 

[Michele]

I've been addicted to nasal spray for over 15 years. I'm thinking that my sense of smell may very well be gone for good. I've tried quitting but I seem to also be addicted to breathing at night!8-o

 

[Mary Kay]

After 37 years of smoking, I could smell again after a week. I was on the computer and smelled a really nice scent.. off..I ran into the kitchen where hubby was brewing a fresh pot of coffee! I smelled it from 2 rooms away and around a corner. I had forgotten how good coffee smelled. But oddly enough I am drinking a lot less now.
The downside is that I can now smell analogs..phew! I have used up two bottles of frebreeze trying to get rid of the odor when Mom or hubby smoke.
Taste is much slower coming back. I can't eat some foods now if they are too salty or fatty tasting. I use less spice when I cook.
I do have problems vaping, because one day out of the blue I don't like a flavor I loved the day before. Then I find I like something that I didn't two days ago! At least I am using all the flavors..lol

 

[Zofryer]

I always get that back fairly quick. About a week and a half, and I had been smoking off and on for 26 years. It's the coughing up horrible stuff thing that takes me months.