I've come to the conclusion that I kind of miss having a dulled sense of smell. The world around me just reeks, especially smokers. I can't believe I used to smell like that.
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Neither do I...I definitely have noticed alot more smells though. For good and bad.
just wait till ya gotta smell one of your owns fart :O almost 14 weeks stinky free,,think my nose is getting even better ??
or something crawled up there ,get stuck and died
and is still there rotting lol
i cant stand the smell of someone going for a ciggarette then coming back in and that smell thats on them. it is putrid!
I know what you mean moonless......at work I can actually smell the smokers walking back in the building. Worst of all, I live with my sister and she smokes in the house. I have to have a fan on all the time AND the window right by me open... but there are good smells too - guess its a trade off! I'd rather be able to smell all the stinky stuff rather than still smell stinky myself....
That is the worst. Its amazing anyone would talk to us when we smelled like that. Its almost hard to be in the same room with them.
Heh, so true. Even more so, depending on the situation, I think of all the different things I have done in the past to mask or (think I'm) hiding the fact that I had just had a cigarette. I get a chuckle out of it thinking I was fooling anyone.
My better half still smokes occasionally. We were both indoor/outdoor smokers. She only smokes outside now. But if I'm in the livingroom and she smokes outside the front door and several feet beyond the door, and I'm inside a good 25 feet from the door, I will smell it as if she's right next to me. I don't mind the smell of smoke, but yes, I certainly smell the aura of smoke surrounding any smoker coming back inside from a cigarette now and with a group can discern the different flavors each of them smoke.
It doesn't phase me and occasionally I enjoy the smell as it's something I knew so well, yet now it's almost like smelling a new flavor for better for worse.
But the biggest thing is the bad smells and not just the pungent ones. I certainly now smell much more, whether it be people, or gas or exhaust while on the road, or anything in between.
But it's the more subtle ones that are interesting and that provide me with a bit of jest. When I come home from work and come inside it's as if I can smell one of multiple subtle smells that previously didn't exist or were under the radar. In the car with the window open or sitting at a red light is no different.
I picture myself from the outside looking like a dog or a cat in their day-to-day life, head and nose dodging left and right and asking my better half "What's that smell?", "Do you smell that?", "Is someone running a wood stove two counties away?", "Lassie, what are you trying to say? Did Billy fall in a well?"
And then I remember that though it may be more noticeable right now and that eventually I will to an extent partially mute out these senses psychologically, that this is how I once was, and this is how the majority of the world functions. Occasionally I get an internal giggle at some of my reactions. Most of the time I quickly wonder how I let myself be this way for so long, even knowing the answer and understanding hindsight.
A double-edged sword is the fact that I quit in the dead of winter (even though it's not really "winter" this year). I don't get the instant gratification of the smells of spring, but I know that much of myself will have changed by the time spring comes along and I look forward to it ten times more than I ever have.
Probably the most frightening thing though once you can smell again, and look back, isn't simply the fact of realizing how much you must have smelled like smoke in the past. It's thinking about the times that you very well might have just not smelled right in general and didn't realize the extent.
Again, I'm still vaping, and it too carries smells. I'm still putting something through my mouth, and nose, and lungs. Though things feel like a revelation, who knows, maybe someday I'll be posting in a different forum if I ever quit vaping about yet another revelation of only breathing oxygen.
If that ever happens, I will surely change my handle to TheSnozzberriesTasteLikeSnozzberries!
Just follow up that thought with, "But I don't smell that way any more." It's good for a smug little inner smile.
I live between a paper mill & farm country... that often provides a wonderful mix of aromas...
that said, there is nothing like the first breath of outside air on a crisp, fresh morning; and I have only been vaping for 1.5 months, can't wait to see what happens by summertime! Ooh to smell the fullness of a fertile woodland again...
that said, there is nothing like the first breath of outside air on a crisp, fresh morning; and I have only been vaping for 1.5 months, can't wait to see what happens by summertime! Ooh to smell the fullness of a fertile woodland again...
I am not allowed to vape inside at work, outside designated smoking areas only. Bummer! So I still go out with people who smoke. It's amazing how I can smell that smoke now. After our break we enter the building, walk across the floor and use the elevator. Oh my! I never smelled that smoke before...now it's so strong. *ack*!
I have a bit of good news. I let another co-worker borrow a battery, charger and two cartos over the weekend. She seems interested..that's a total of two that might just make the big switch to vaping.
I have a bit of good news. I let another co-worker borrow a battery, charger and two cartos over the weekend. She seems interested..that's a total of two that might just make the big switch to vaping.
I am coming up on my 8th month and I swear I can smell someone smoking in their car at a red light when I have my windows down. It is a blessing and a curse I guess. The guys I work with all smoke in the office. I try not to hang around too long but when we have safety meetings I can smell the smoke on my clothes for hours.
I don't mind the smell of burning tobacco -- and, oddly, it doesn't give me cravings -- but that stale smoke-and-chemical smell left on smokers when they go back inside is just the worst.
I don't know if smokers would quit if they could smell what they were smoking, but I bet a lot would switch brands. Some cigs just make me gag on top of the usual tobacco smell.
I don't know if smokers would quit if they could smell what they were smoking, but I bet a lot would switch brands. Some cigs just make me gag on top of the usual tobacco smell.
Eechh, is that what I have to look forward to?
I work in a convenience store within a few blocks of several rehab centers in a high homeless rate area.
Many of the customers come in after spending the night in a pool of their own urine.
Don't get me wrong I feel for them and do what I can to help.
But, that bein said, they smell bad enough with my senses deadened.
I work in a convenience store within a few blocks of several rehab centers in a high homeless rate area.
Many of the customers come in after spending the night in a pool of their own urine.
Don't get me wrong I feel for them and do what I can to help.
But, that bein said, they smell bad enough with my senses deadened.
When I first began to get back my sense of smell, the very first smell I was aware of was the smell of my own pee! Gawd what a shock THAT was! I never, ever knew that pee even HAD an odor ... and not even a "good" one. Changes in taste occur along with the ability to smell again, too. I used to LOVE cheese enchiladas ... now they taste like a salt-slick.
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