When did you regain your sense of smell?

[esteband]

Hi All,

I'm pretty new. Smoked my last analog on 11/4. I'm very disappointed because I expected I'd have some improvement in my sense of smell by now. But nope, still totally shot. For instance, my girlfriend got a bunch of free cologne and perfume samples, and even with the bottles right under my nose, I couldn't smell a thing. I have several flavors of e-liquid, and can hardly taste any difference between them.

Anyway, I'm curious to learn how long it took for you to start smelling and tasting normally. Did your senses return suddenly or gradually? Also, if you wouldn't mind, please say how much you used to smoke, and for how long.

Thanks!

 

[fester]

I don't think that I have regained my sense of smell yet after six weeks of vaping. Also, I haven't noticed any real change in my sense of taste as well.

I've thought about this before and there are only three things I can think of:

1. It is happening so slowly that I don't notice the change,
2. I was smoking American Spirit analogues and they are advertised as no additives. Perhaps my sense of smell and taste had already 'somewhat' recovered, or
3. Recovery hasn't happened as yet and may never.

I really doubt my second guess however, it is a possibility.

Lastly, my sense of taste with regards to nic juices seems to have DIMINISHED since I started vaping. Go figure !

 

[Deschain]

Taste seems a lot better, no much in the smell department though...the only thing I've noticed is that I can smell other smokers, it's pretty unpleasant to think that I used to smell like that.


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[nubee]

For me, within a week I couldn't stand sitting in my own car....garage (ol' smoking lounge) stunk just as bad.

 

[Midnight_toker]

Two weeks for me

MT

 

[Bonnie]

after about a week for me. I work homecare, and started to be able to notice that some of my clients homes smelled awful.

 

[angjen0816]

It was about a week and let me tell you...it was BAD! I was cursing my sense of smell. everything smelled horrible! now I am getting used to being able to smell things but i was not a happy camper at first!

 

[Phydough]

I could smell the car and garage, the two places I smoked the most, after a week or two, then after another week or so, I started noticing ‘the smell’ on friends and people I used to smoke with. I think what surprised me most was after 6 or 8 smoke-free weeks when I got into an elevator that reeked like all get out. I never believed people could really smell the smoke lingering in an empty elevator.

My daughter mentioned the other day that ‘daddy, you smell good’. I wish I’d found a 510 years ago.

 

[Iambuza]

I noticed it in my truck first, than when walking by someone smoking outside, and now I can smell it on people who aren't smoking. I used to get so annoyed when people at work gave me a hard time about smelling like an ashtray. Now I feel they're pain. lol

 

[donnellyk]

Within days! I had to shut my mouth at the "smoker's table" at work with my friends...I'm embarassed to think how much denial I was in that I was "covering up" the stench with cologne...God...
Empty halls after smokers have walked through stink! I smell EVERYthing and trust me, it's not all good, LOL!! Initially not too into the juice flavors tastewise (still partial to menthol) but now I'm pretty "into" them, they're kinda fun...hope your senses return, know you ARE healthier and YOU don't stink as another benefit!!

 

[esteband]

I was kinda hoping I'd notice the smell of wet leaves in the fall first. Or the smell after it rains. But based on the answers so far, it looks like I have to expect some pretty rank ones first.

But that's ok - the bad smells are important too. How else are you gonna know if the milk went sour? Or if there's a gas leak?

But what a tragedy to lose your sense of smell. I can't believe how lightly I took it when I was smoking cigarettes. For me, the sense vanished almost overnight. One day, I went to work, and all I could smell was cigarette smoke. Nothing else. Then after a few weeks, I couldn't smell anything else at all unless it was very powerful. All subtlety was gone. That should've woken me up and got me off cigarettes right away. But no use crying over spilled milk, (which probably went sour anyway)...

 

[esteband]

Thanks all for your responses so far. It's nice knowing I'm not alone, that there are some folks with the same experience as me.

 

[martha1014]

I took me about a month before I could smell. I was amazed at the difference. I did not realize things smelled so good and so bad. I was really shocked that I had not been able to smell all of this time. I just thought it was normal.

 

[mudmanc4]

Like some of you others, I noticed just how "we" as humans smell, breath, BO , rain leaves , kinda like the first Harley ride in the spring, when you can smell everything.

And I can smell a smoker from afar, bigtime, I knew it had a stong odor, but daAAm !

I was in line at the bank a couple weeks ago, and out of the blue I smelled that strong stale ... smoke smell, seriously had to breath through my mouth, I looked back a bit when it was my turn at the bar, it was a nicely dressed man with a lot going on. I wondered if he was at all aware of just how strong that smell was.

 

[Deschain]

Mudmanc, I bet that guy could only smell his aftershave...poor dude probably thought he was looking sharp and smelling nice (like we all did).

Jeez, if I think about all the expensive aftershave I've wasted over the years, I might break down crying! - I might as well have just rolled around in the ashtray and saved me some cash!!!


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[rasci2]

I regained my sense of smell in about a week. Obviously not all the smells were pleasant. Believe me, after fifty years of smoking there were quite a few surprises. However, the return of my taste buds has been great. Everything tastes better.

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

I can smell nicotine re-entering a room I've previously vaped in, but other than that, my sense of smell and taste haven't seemed to change any over the last 2+ months .

 

[CHUCKLEHEAD]

About 2 months afther the divorce!!> Jokin really 2 months

 

[pianoguy]

I noticed an improvement in my sense of smell in less than a week, and it's getting better with each passing day. Taste is getting a bit sharper, too - I can imagine that my salt and pepper consumption will drop like a rock ;-)

 

[traderblue]

Two weeks for me

MT

Same for me 2 weeks.