What's that smell???

[CheckBit]

I've been analog free for 9 days now and BOY is my sense of smell coming back. At least once or twice a day I stop and think 'What IS that smell?!? I need to find that so I can bury it!". Tonight I opened my briefcase at work and nearly gagged. I think this weekend I may just go all out and wash any and everything that will fit in my washer and then maybe do a tango through my house with a can of lysol in each hand...

Is there a 12 step group for people who have had no sense of smell for the last quarter century?

 

[Tracey1]

That's so funny but true. It's hard to imagine it getting worse but with 9 days in it's bound too. The washing machine is your friend right now. Wash all that you can to get the stink out. You will find that you can actually wear your clothes more than once before you have to wash them. Sometimes I open my closet and smell it. Makes me smile cause it smells good in there.

 

[Jadc]

It is amazing how much you are can smell it even after couple of days....I really can't stand the smell of smoke anymore really...even when my parents come and stay they tend to want to smoke in the house which at first I did mind...but give it a day I would literary get really frustrated and annoyed for some reason and I have to stand out side for the fresh air! I know you guy's are thinking tell them to smoke outside...and yes I did tell them that and now they do hehe wooo

 

[inga]

It's funny how it effects you. I've started wearing perfume again for the first time in years, as I guess I didn't see the point in trying to smell pretty when I knew I smelled of smoke.

 

[Theken]

I just hit my 10th day and am seeing (smelling) things so much differently now as well. I am going out to buy some nice cologne tomorrow morning!

 

[JLH]

Not to mention the TASTE Had a slip up the fourth or fifth day i started vaping and let me tell you WORST cigarette ever. i smoked them quite a bit but this one i could really taste and it made vapor taste like a gift from the gods.
And i just feel overall better!
Vaping definetly saved my life cause nothing else could get me off cigs!
happy vaping guys

 

[Della Cirque]

I walked past a candle last night and stopped in my tracks, saying what is that smell? This is the same kind of candle I have burned for years, I just haven't smelled it in years!
My washing machine is getting a work out too....curtains were the worst. Yuck!!!

 

[gk1]

Prepare yourself for the ever-changing taste phase

 

[Tracey1]

It's funny how it effects you. I've started wearing perfume again for the first time in years, as I guess I didn't see the point in trying to smell pretty when I knew I smelled of smoke.

I too bought a bottle of the perfume that I had worn for years. I can't remember when I stopped wearing it or why. Maybe another one of the little pleasures that smoking just robs us of. I am so loving wearing it again.

 

[Iffy]

I now find that there is waaay to much salt in some processed products! Never noticed when I was smoking...

 

[webmiztris]

I love it. I walk pass lots of people on the way to work and always notice the smell of their soap and perfumes now as I pass them by. Seems basic, but still neat when you're not used to being able to smell everything.

 

[908Tracy]

I asked my daughter last week when leaving the mall if all of the entrances always reeked of cigarettes??? Her answer was a definite yes with a crinkled nose. lol

 

[DaveP]

It's amazing what is out there that you haven't smelled since smoking! I remember walking outside one day after quitting and getting hit with the smell of dirt and pine trees. It was like walking into a new world. Then, I walked around a bit and came across the smell of something the dog left. I was done by then and went back inside for a while.

 

[GinaDe]

I grew up in a smoking house and started smoking myself at 13. I think this may be the first time in my life that I have actually smelled things as they actually are! The past month I've been in a cleaning frenzy. I am loving how everything smells when its fresh and clean.

Now if I could just keep my bulldog from farting.....

 

[Iffy]

Now if I could just keep my bulldog from farting.....

OK... I lost it there...

No wonder my bride would complain about the dog... and I'd go "What?"

 

[GinaDe]

Sometimes an enhanced sense of smell is a drawback

 

[vdrummer]

Sometimes an enhanced sense of smell is a drawback

How true... I forgot how the subways of New York City stunk..

 

[ScottinSoCal]

Is there a 12 step group for people who have had no sense of smell for the last quarter century?

Hi, my name is Scott, and I'm a Febreeze addict.

I started vaping over the holidays last year, so my car sat for about a week before I opened the door. And during that week, my sense of smell came back. And we had a little warm spell between Christmas and New Year, so it really got the smells going. I opened the car door and the smell poured out like swamp mud. I just about keeled over.

It took me a few applications, and I had to get everywhere - under the seats, on the headliner, I even turned the AC on recirculate and sprayed it into the air vents under the dash. But, my car no longer smells like a smoker's car. I can get in it even on the hottest summer day, and I smell hot car instead of moldy ashtray.

 

[Dagar]

Vaper for a month now, thought I had a decent sniffer for a smoker...OMG now that I don't smoke, first off, smoker's stink (luv you guys but you REALLY smell) & the dust mop. I kept smelling wet dog, only have one dog, he wasn't wet...dust mop, off with the cover in the wash. The boys upstairs bathroom (oh man a weekly cleaning just doesn't cut with 3 grown boys plus their friends). My car thankfully is newer and I always smoked with the windows 1/4 of the way down even in the winter. Upside is we never smoked in our house (thank you Jesus) as I would be repainting the whole interior (not that it couldn't use it already) but ya know what I mean.

I am a realtor so I showed some houses this week...showed a lovely home with a great sun porch, walked out on the sun porch and said "here's where they smoke." The rest of the house was neat as a pin and perfect, the sun porch reeked.

Foods...whole other subject but a few weeks ago I could actually smell the styromfoam that had heated up against my fried rice to go from the chinese place and I couldn't eat it, same with coffee. I'd swear up and down my Maxwell house can smell like Bayer Whole House Pest Spray.

And this goes on...just keep cleaning. If you smoked in your house, wash the walls, if it has been decades of smoke, use Kilz and repaint. I can tell you this horror story of a mulit-million $ house full of collectibles and antiques and everything in it was ruined from the smokers living in it and smoking. Collectibles worth almost zero. Whole interior had to be gutted because the nicotine and smoke in the walls.

Anyway...dinner is burning...have a great weekend ya'll...wash and scrub.

 

[CheckBit]

LOL! Great stories! It happened to me again today. I was driving to work which is about an hour away when it hit me. "OMG! What IS that?!?" I almost panicked and pulled over until I realized it was just the normal smell of my car's engine..... I don't even want to think about farts... I just thought I was blessed with odorless gas these last two decades.