Honestly, the way you describe it, it sounds to me like you are at the point where they need to all come out. My teeth too weren't just smokers teeth, the teeth that had had root canals 30 years prior were breaking off at the gum line. The first couple teeth that did that and I was freaking out. By the 5th or 6th that did that and we'd be sitting having dinner (at home) and I'd quietly spit the tooth out in my napkin and not even say a word about it to my wife, although I think she caught me doing it every time but never said anything. For me the last straw was my 4 front upper teeth, they were the last 4 teeth that I had had root canals done to but I never had them finished, the original dentist did the root canals but also wanted to cap them but I ran out of money 30 years ago so never finished them. Well 3 years ago those 4 started to turn dark and then middle of last year I was eating some corn on the cob and baby back ribs and three of the four front teeth just basically broke off, and I was left with my "snaggle tooth" (one bucktooth left). It was that time that I finally decided that I had to get it done. I had originally thought to get implants, but my mother had an accident and slipped in my step brothers room many years ago and came down slamming her mouth into the footboard of his bed breaking out all of her front upper and lower teeth, so she's got implants and good God, you've never heard a person complain about so much pain in their teeth as she has complained. She's had nothing but complications with all of the implants year after year so that totally turned me off of implants and decided to go with dentures instead. Turns out not such a bad thing the dentures, as long as their fitting good, they then sit tight and once you get over whistling your S's I think it's hard for people to really be 100% certain whether you have dentures or not when you have a good pair. Unless of course they knew you when your front teeth were black or something like that.
My teeth were so broken off everywhere that I had to choose where I was going to chew food, sometimes the left side molars were in so much pain I couldn't chew on that side (what teeth were left over on the left), so I'd have to balance my food between two teeth on the right side molars because the molars in front of and behind those two teeth had already broken off, so I'd have to use my tongue to balance the food between those two molars to chew it up. Took me ages to eat dinner, I'd still be chewing while everybody else was ready to move on to desert.
The first dentist I went to told my mother (since it's the family trust fund that pays all family members medical issues) that I had the teeth of a crack head. She took that to mean literally that I was doing crack or whatever it is they do. This upset me so much that I never went back to that dentist as I don't do and never have done crack or crystal or coke or anything like that. I asked the second dentist if it looked like I had a crack heads teeth. He told me that while my teeth are really really bad, there are certain signs that a dentist can see that will definitively tell him if the person has a crack head mouth, or just severly decayed teeth. He told me that my mouth does not show any signs of being the mouth of a crack head.
Good luck with your dental issues, hope it all works out for you.
Edit: I just thought of the one major downside to dentures... I get denture adhesive all over my drip tips. I don't mind the adhesive in my mouth but for some reason it really freaks me out when I see a light coating on my drip tip after taking a vape. Now I carry around disposable alcohol wipes and when ever I notice any adhesive on the drip tip, I break out an alcohol wipe and give it a good rubbing to remove any adhesive residue.
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