The Stench is killing me ...

[nansc]

Thanks!! I'll have to mosey up to the store and get some!

Just make sure you get the kind in the spray bottle,I used to keep a bottle in my car because it even gagged me when I was smoking.You can spray it right on the car seats ,doesn't hurt them a bit.

 

[stadiumlove]

I know...It's embarrassing to think I walked around smelling like that for years.

 

[SusanK]

I hate the smell of a smoker, but I love the smell of a cigarette as it's being burned.

Me, too! When I'm walking around campus getting from one class to another, I can't believe how many people smoke!!! It's like I'm walking a happy path of great smell that tortures the crap out of me. Then, I get to class and sit next to a smoker... I want to throw up because she smells so bad!!!

I still get embarrassed at how bad I smelled and the fact that I was so oblivious to it! And I laugh at how stupid I was to think I could ever mask that smell...

 

[pianoguy]

It's funny - when I quit before, the smell of cigarettes was still appealing. But this time it reeks to high heaven.

 

[Jim Bob]

Vapers smell better X 2! (sense of smell and our scent) !

 

[motox]

Will the urge to puke when I am around smokers go away? I feel so rude when I have to put my hand to my nose to stop from gagging. I had to leave a store today because a smoker was standing next to me in the ckout line, and I was turning green.
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I understand that our sense of smell returns once we stop smoking, and it is noticeable - I was out shopping yesterday and could pick up that there was someone smoking around me, but it didn't provoke the visceral response that you mentioned. While it is excellent when a person chooses to stop smoking, I always try and remember that smoking is a choice - and I try to stay as low-key as I possibly can.

You may recall just a few months ago when you were still a smoker, how you would react if you saw someone pinching their nose as they approached you - and I don't really think that you would have thought "gosh darn, I really need to stop smoking cigarettes" - quite likely, your response would have been something different.

I too am very happy that I have been able to quit smoking, but I try to not sensationalize my reactions to other smokers, particularly those who are my friends. If you are truly having such a strong reaction, where you are gagging and dry heaving when you get a whiff of burning tobacco, all I can say is that would be very surprising. If it's more along the lines of "hey, I can smell that someone is smoking a cigarette, just like I did just a couple of months ago", that's another thing entirely.

I'm just reminded of several times in the past where I dealt with these over the top public displays (fake coughing, nose pinching, etcetera), and they really didn't inspire me to stop smoking. I've even encountered the same response when people in public have observed me vaping which tells me that the person is really making a statement of "I disagree with what you are doing, and I'm going to make a production so you know that I disagree".

Be very proud of yourself for quitting cigarettes - it is a MAJOR accomplishment! But if your goal is to get your friends to stop smoking, you will set an example just in the fact that they know that you have quit. If they ask you questions, that shows that they are considering it also and you will be an excellent source of information. But if you make a scene the next time you hang out with your smoking friends, I'm not sure that you will get the results you are desiring.

 

[Della Cirque]

My Mom and sister live next door to me and are quite offended that I no longer allow smoking in my house. My sister always has a strinkerette lit up as she tries to walk in the door, rolls her eyes when I say no smoking inside. I can't help it, I love that my house no longer smells like an ashtray. In the beginning I let them smoke in the kitchen by three open windows, but I can't even hack that anymore. When I visit their house I have to come home change clothes and shower. I never thought I'd turn into "one of those" ex-smokers, but I have.
(yes, I tried to convert them too...to no avail so far.)

 

[BeadyKate]

I can totally comiserate on this subject. My MIL still smokes, but she vapes where she is not allowed to smoke. Her house is the worst smelling place. Yes she smokes inside, and it is her choice. But I dread going over there. She needs alot of help now, since her husband passed away. He died from heart failure and had Emphysema. So my husband, my daughter, and myself have to go do chores at her house. It just stinks when you take a shower, and go over there. Cause you have to come home and take another one. Now it use to tick me off when people would hack and cough as I smoked a cig. But now I know how bad it really smelled. Yikes. So, I make my trips to MIL very short, and try not to go in the house. Even food she gives us sometimes tastes like a burnt cig smells. Oh we politely accept it and then throw it away when we get home. What can you do. It would just hurt someones feelings to be rude. We just have to remember all those folks that put up with out stinky phase of smoking, and try to be as considerate as possiable. Just my 2 cents.

 

[sheik124]

Yes it does stink. I don't react violently like the non-smokers mentioned in the thread (pinching your nose, making faces, coughing from dozens of yards away) but I can smell cigarette smoke before I can see it!

Honestly, what's bothering me more than the newly reintroduced smell of cigarettes are those same non-smokers. Some of them start faux-coughing from 10-20 feet away, I usually walk up to them and call bull...., then they remark about how good House Blend or ecoPURE smells.