Stinky stories

[Squish]

One day I went my my buddies place to hang out for a bit and eat some French toast (yum!). Here's the clincher, big time heavy smoker, big time heavy INDOOR smoker. .While I was there I have to admit I noticed the smell, but it didn't really bother me that much at the time. He only had a couple smokes while I was there.

So I drive back to my mother in law's, and I totally start noticing that I reek of cigarettes. . It permeates the air around me at like a two foot radius. I know this, because I realized if I walk through the room the smell went away. Stop moving though...nasty! Too bad I was attending a massive family gathering and dinner at the time..
Every eye would drift and noses would turn up, but there were too many people to just make an announcement.
"I am not a smoker! I was simply sitting next to one!".
Gah! I can't believe how I've .never noticed how much I stank when I smoked. . And how the smell of my buddies house was enough to permeate my clothes and hair. .Geez I even flicked a bunch of soap bubbles all over me everytime I went to the bathroom, and I could still smell it..

Gross. Just gross..

 

[Dusty_D]

Maybe carry a bottle of Fabreze with you next time. Give yourself a good dousing once you leave your buddies place.

 

[sam.8]

I got into a friend's car the other day who smokes. I used to smoke in my car all the time, but smoked outside when at home. It was in the middle of super hot humid weather....omg, the stench in the car was over powering! And I'm really not some super reformed smoker who says anything but wow, definitely and eye opener.

 

[NGIB]

I live between GA & SC (have to be where the jobs are) and I have a small house in GA where I reside alone during the week. I generally spend my weekends at my real home in SC. I smoked in my GA house. I started vaping on a Wednesday and then I went home to SC that weekend. When I got back to GA Sunday evening, I opened the front door and nearly puked due to the cigarette stench. I spent the next 2 days cleaning everything in the house and keeping every window open to air it out. Went through 2 bottles of Fabreeze as well. Had to do the same for my truck...

 

[SoUnique]

And just think, when we smoked we didn't even notice the stench.

 

[Ciar]

I started using my ecig last Friday, trying to reduce my smoking from 10-13 cigs a day currently floating between 5-8 a day, I used to smoke in my car when driving home from work, mainly due to sitting in traffic, I have noticed already the smell inside, going to have to give the car a good valet asap!

 

[Samyaza]

Seriously, I always get embarrassed when I realise how terrible I used to smell

 

[SloHand]

Getting in an elevator with someone who just came in from a smoke ..... nasty! My wife and I, both reformed smokers now vaporists, have repainted just about every room in the house.

 

[MisterMike]

Whenever I'm in the kitchen and the windows are open, and I hear the snick! of a lighter next door, I can almost immediately smell the smoke drifting in. Even those first few wisps are enough to make me gag. It's insidious.

I can't imagine how my wife put up with me after she quit. I kind of imagine my old self to be like Pigpen from Peanuts, but with an invisible cloud instead.

 

[Silverkm]

Just today I was driving a coworker around. He's a smoker, and what I would refer to as a gross one at that. When I used to smoke, I never kept half butts or anyhting because it grossed me out. I swear he eats them.

Well because there's no smoking in my truck, he hopped out at every stop for a smoke, but because they were quick ones, he would hop out for 2-3 puffs, put it out and hop back in. I should have just let him smoke it the truck, it was so disgusting. The smell of buring tobacco is tolerable, but that ashtray smell will make me gag everytime.

 

[MisterMike]

Just today I was driving a coworker around. He's a smoker, and what I would refer to as a gross one at that. When I used to smoke, I never kept half butts or anyhting because it grossed me out. I swear he eats them.

Well because there's no smoking in my truck, he hopped out at every stop for a smoke, but because they were quick ones, he would hop out for 2-3 puffs, put it out and hop back in. I should have just let him smoke it the truck, it was so disgusting. The smell of buring tobacco is tolerable, but that ashtray smell will make me gag everytime.

I know what you're saying. That half-butted cig smell got to me even when I was smoking.

My aunt-in-law (if that's even a term) was over a while back (probably a week or so into my vaping) and she popped out for a few puffs, put it out and came back inside. Man oh man did that ever reek. I could smell it in the basement.

 

[IamAurora]

I always thought I would be the LAST person on earth to complain about smokers/smoking after smoking for a couple decades. But since I've quit my sense of smell has enhanced 100 fold. The way people's breath stink after they smoked a half-.... and the smell of their clothing after they have been driving for awhile and chainsmoking. I have to back away from smokers now, as it makes me gag. lol. I am almost ashamed that was me just a few months ago.

Now I chainvape and people tell me I smell wonderful, LOL

 

[Dusty_D]

Congratulations on your newly returned sense of smell everyone. It is an amazing feeling isn't it? As y'all have also discovered, there is an obvious downside to this wonderful experience.

Does anybody here take the subway?! You want stinkies, ride the subway.

First thing in the morning, folks that are on their way to work and haven't bothered brushing their teeth. Gag! Puke! I can smell their breath from 10 feet away. I've even had one person sit right next to me. The stench was so overpowering, I had to get up and find another seat. One of these days, I'm going to offer somebody a stick of gum and let them know their breath stinks. I just need to be in the right frame of mind to do it.

The other subway wonder is the person who is completely clueless about their body odour. Sour, eye watering, headache inducing waves of absolutely disgusting body odour. Please wash those clothes and have a shower. Maybe have two while you are at it. Blech!!

The third and final category that you are possibly going to meet on the subway are my beloved south east asians. Oh my beautiful Indians and Sri Lankans. We make some of the most amazing curries on the planet. It's the reason I have an exhaust in my house that would suck the white off rice. Get an exhaust and use it. Wearing a padded jacket in the middle of summer that also doubles as your apron when cooking coupled with the heat and your body odour (yes! you have it) does not make for a very nice subway companion. I can smell you from the next car.

Anyone else met the folks I have referred to?!

 

[drac]

As a paramedic in the core area. Even as a heavy smoker I met them and their relatives.
Drac

 

[Squish]

I used to take the train in Calgary at rush hour when I still lived there. Yup, close encounters with the stinky kind...and that was when I smoked!! Can't imagine it now that I have supergirl smell powers

 

[MisterMike]

I remember the C-train... always some very interesting people aboard. One of the more useful people-movers of the city, I always thought. Fragrant, but useful.

 

[Ciar]

I did 20 years using the central line here in London, i have smelt it all as a smoker, infact the worst times is when it's hot as there is no air con and tubes just turn into sardine cans full of sweaty people.... awful... luckily i have been driving to work for the last 5 years

 

[Samyaza]

I did 20 years using the central line here in London, i have smelt it all as a smoker, infact the worst times is when it's hot as there is no air con and tubes just turn into sardine cans full of sweaty people.... awful... luckily i have been driving to work for the last 5 years

I used the Northern line for 3 years when I lived there - nothing worse than summer down there. I would hate to use it now that I have a sense of smell lol.

 

[Mindfield]

Ah yes, the realization that you stunk.

I had that same realization myself. A week after I started vaping for the first time I decided to try having a real cigarette -- both to see if it had the power to hook me back on them, and because I'd noticed my tastebuds and sense of smell were perking up big time, so I wanted to see how they hit me now that I'd been a vaper for a solid week.

Aside from such reactions as, "Wow, this tastes terrible," and "Wow, this tastes like cigarettes did when I first tried cigarettes," after I'd put the smoke out halfway through (just couldn't finish it), I realized I stunk like cigarette smoke. And then I realized, "This is what I smelled like to other non-smokers all the time!" That was quite a revelation and only served to further solidify my determination to keep vaping.

I did fall off the wagon a couple of months later, but that's another story. I did come back (obviously) and have been off the stinkies for over a year solid now.

 

[Smile n' shine]

My coat closet needs to be dealt with severely.
Ewwww, I even kept stinky guest sweaters for smokers, who wanted to sneak out to my self made smoking area.
I gag at the smell of outdoor smokers coming indoors....bleh. I know what I use to smell like, I wasn`t proud, but I`m glad to have a reminder now and again.