The smell of love and cancer

[gemmabell86]

It's my first day vaping. So far, I'm not sure. I feel a slight anxiety - like prickles all over my body.
I'm using a 12mg juice, perhaps that's the problem...? I was smoking about 15-20 cigs a day.

It's the smell of analogs that's doing me in. Already! They smell amazing.
To me, it smells like Mom and Dad. Friends. Family. Good times and loved ones.

So, I was just wondering if any of you had/have fond memories of the smell of smoke. To me, it smells like home more than anything else. Do you ever get past it? How?

 

[Jarski44]

For me, within a few days the smell started to make me sick. I would suspect that you're a little light on nic, causing the prickles. If you don't want to increase your nic, they should pass in a day or two.

 

[fourthrok]

I know what you are talking about. When I was growing up my parents didn't smoke (my father did smoke, but quit before I was old enough to know what was going on), but they used to throw the most amazing snazzy parties (business related as well as personal friends) and just about everyone they knew smoked. I would equate the smell of our house when there was a party with being grown up, sophisticated, well-heeled and secure. My uncles smoked, and when I went to college it seemed like all my friends smoked. It's like what you said...good times and loved ones.

I thought I still loved the smell of tobacco smoke when I first started vaping. But within a couple of weeks I'd changed my mind. I didn't like it. At. All. And now it's REALLY noticeable if I am near someone who smokes. Don't like that smell anymore. What I thought was pleasant associations has faded into the mists of the past.

 

[DC2]

At nearly a pack per day, you might want to try some 18mg if you aren't sure 12mg is working for you.
And as for the smell of cigarette smoke, don't be surprised if some day soon you discover it actually smells horrible.

 

[klynnn]

I know that smell. I can remember as a kid the radio playing the smell of coffee percolating and cigarette smoke in the air. Many years ago that smell was everywhere and no one took offense. Times have definitely changed and some of us dinosaurs have changed with it although very slowly. Today I have the smell of candles in the house and no nasty yellow film on the windows. It is really a much better environment for all. Find a juice you love the smell of and put out some of that new fancy aromatherapy stuff. Home is where you hang your hat or charge your batteries.

 

[gavind4]

Throw in some wiskey and I am reminded of Grandad and my wife's boyfriend. I liked them both very much! Your young, lots of time to get over it. Try 24mg.Best wishes.

 

[Tracey1]

Most of my relatives smoked. I started very early and smoked for decades. Now I just can't believe I used to walk around smelling like that! In a few days or a few weeks you'll probably find yourself washing and cleaning everything you possibly can to get the smell out of your life. After 3 years of vaping, I still like to open my closet and smell the fresh clothes in my closet. And I can wear them more than once because they don't smell like stale smoke. It just gets better and better each day you don't pick up a cigarette. And I agree that you may want to up your nic. Try to have some 18 or 24 mg on hand. You're gonna do great!

 

[cocacola31173]

The first month is the hardest. You basically fall apart before you can put your self back together again. But after that you are home free. Im about 3 months in and hadn't felt this good in years. The cravings are gone. I can actually go places and not actually worry about where Im going to smoke. Mind you I don't vape where smoking is not allowed. It just that the cravings are not there and I think I just vape for the pleasure of it and not for the necessity of it.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I've been vaping for a while, and whilst others have said I'll realize it smells awful, I haven't. I have always loved the smell of burning tobacco. I also love smoking, but to me, it's not worth the risk, and it's nowhere NEAR as much fun as vaping.

 

[mastrtcal]

An unlit cig smells good to me. Its still early enough for me that I need to walk away when my friends start smoking otherwise I feel like I want one really bad.

 

[PickyJuicer]

I would try upping the nicotine if you got the prickles... I had this when I had first tried to quit smoking. Finally, I did quit and those prickles turned into outright anxiety attacks. I don't know if it was my body going through withdrawls or what, but 4 months later, I haven't had them. I haven't really had an anxiety attack either. The first time I quit smoking - cold turkey - for a good 10 months. The anxiety attacks during those entire ten months made me feel like I was going insane. They never ended. If I can't vape, I'm prolly gonna end up on some kind of kooky pills or something, just to get through life.

Eventually the smell of cigarettes will turn you off. When my daughter comes home from her fiance's family's house, the smell is horrible. I guess that's what being in a smoke free environment does though.

But, every so often the smell of a cigarette does smell good - mainly when someone lights one with a zippo or OMG, a match! It's the stale smoke, ashray smell I can't stand.

 

[budynbuick]

I am reminded of Grandad and my wife's boyfriend.

LOL at that.

 

[Uno mas]

I love the faint whiff of burning (cigs included) tobacco...

I can still remember in basic training we were forced (smoking privileges were "possibly" earned later) to quit, cold-turkey the Army way, anyway our drill instructor smoked and would make his nice and gentle wake-up call smoking down the hall in the barracks, I will never forget how wonderful that darn cig he smoked smelled first thing in the morning...

Then the occasions where the guys are outside at work and wind blows a trace of smoke past you when the door gets opened, love it...

Then you get a whiff of them coming back in and it's not pleasant, snaps 'ya right back to why I have no desire to light on up again

 

[caprileo]

4 yrs + analog free and to this day the scent of a freshly lit cig is as nostalgic as anyones best memory. What helps me now and from after a few months of not smoking analogs is that nasty stale smell that clings to a smoker after they've just had one . After getting a wiff or reminding myself of that gawd awful smell and that craving goes away pretty fast.

 

[cocacola31173]

I don't miss it. Especially those darn ashes! My car and my desk stays so much cleaner now. Got my mom mad at me the other day when I wouldn't let her smoke in my house. I have spent a fortune deodorizing everything and don't want the smell back. Planning to paint this spring too. I am trying to convert her though..LOL

 

[adeline]

If you want to get over it, go talk to a smoker friend. Stand close to them. Inhale that nasty, stale smell.

Even if you like the smell of an unlit cigarette, or even a burning cigarette, that dead, stale, ashtray smell is gross.

 

[ElectraClyde]

I know what you mean about the memories. Today I walked into my mother's house and my sister was in the other room smoking. The smell immediately makes me think of my grandmother. If I'm in that house smoking cigars, everybody who comes in thinks of my father.

My worse smoke related memory? Ripon College, fall of 1978, and the pot-heads down the hall would dump their ....-water in the drinking fountain!

Stay with it. Just this one forum has 115,356 members who are glad they did.

Clyde

 

[MrsNix]

I started on 24mg juice because I was a pack a day smoker, and I was really worried that anything less than the highest level provided by the folks I bought my starter kit from would not work. The 24, as it turns out, was a bit high for me, and I find I get a satisfaction from the 18mg juice. It kills my need to smoke after a few puffs without giving me any nasty side-effects of overdoing the nicotine.

I would recommend you try the 18 for sure.

I never liked the smell of cigarette smoke, but my stepfather (with whom I have a great relationship) always smoked cigars and pipes. That smell mixed with coffee is the one that takes me back. I have a pipe-tobacco flavor called Broad Street that really takes me to that place. I love it.

 

[and.how]

I have only been vaping since Jan. 1 2013, and I get nauseated with the smell of analog smoke. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Bucky Goldstein]

After six years I still like the smell of Tobacco