Where did you smoke?

[sgilners]

I want to pose the question of where everybody smoked? I smoked 30 per day for 15 years, I could definitely feel that I needed to quit due to related health concerns. (i.e. breathing and chest pain). During my 15 year stupidity however, I never smoked in the house or garage, always on the porch. I did smoke in my car, a lot, but I don't drive all that much.

I ask this because I hear when everybody quits how much better they smell and taste.I am wondering if maybe the smell and taste is worse for those of you who mainly smoked indoors. I don't seem to smell or taste any better at all. So I am wondering if maybe that will not come back for me? Or maybe it never left? I have never had issues with not smelling or tasting, I feel like I can just fine, but I doubt that is something people notice leave anyways because of the slow process.

Has anybody else felt this way? Thanks

 

[LMS62]

I never smoked in the house or vehicle, but my garage was always the official smoke pit.

 

[Tangaroav]

Maybe you can not smell it but I am sure your spouse did smell that stale burnt stink, and your kids too and whoever you hugged.

 

[Rotowoman]

I smoked for 40 years. I could probably list a boatload of places that I smoked. At the end of my smoking journey, I have probably done most of my smoking in my house and in my car. The old car that I traded in last year smelled like a rolling ash tray. Oh yeah, it was bad. I haven't smoked in this one that long, so I've managed to "save" it in a sense. Now that I'm vaping, I can tell the difference immediately. There are no more make shift ash trays, no more ashes everywhere, and no ash tray smell.

Now, my house has a lot of different smells to it. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I know I need to wash the walls, and other assorted things around here. When I haven't been in the house for a while, I can tell there is an odor to it.

You don't say how long you have been vaping. My sense of smell didn't come back immediately. Maybe that is what is happening to you.

 

[Auntie Mame]

I don't think the smell is limited to solid surfaces indoors. Since I stopped smoking if someone walks by me I notice the smell of tobacco and other substances some folks smoke. As a smoker I never noticed, as a non-smoker I feel as it I should apologize to everyone who came in contact with me during my smoking years because I must have reeked! For the record, I smoked outdoors unless weather would not permit (then on porch or in garage) and in my car when driving.

 

[WillyZee]

I remember when it was OK to smoke in elevators

 

[sgilners]

the wife is definitely happy for me not stinking anymore ( not of smoke anyways) lol. and I have been vaping for about almost a month, with about analogs in the first 2 weeks, I just always hear people say its within days or a week so I was curious.

 

[sgilners]

@auntie mame. my mother and father in-law were over last night and are smokers. that was my first close interaction with smokers since starting to vape full-time. I could not believe how bad that smell was. I suppose that smell is heightened for me now, but I want the good stuff not the bad lol

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

I never smoked in the house or in the car in my 30 year "career" - always outside (benefits of west coast weather). LIke you, I never felt I was sensationally deprived. While I did not feel that I gained back smell or taste when I switched to vaping in a "wow" sense, I did in a more subtle way.

Firstly, we all get smell blind to the smoke. It was on me and I didn't even know it (I mean, I did know it, but in an intellectual way, not because I could smell it). That was the first thing I noticed - a new sensitivity to cigarette smoke. Not bad, not good, I just could smell it in the air and on people where I couldn't before.

Next, I found that things I could smell before were now more complex. Not stronger or better, just more involved than the perception/impression I had of them when I smoked. I also experienced the same thing with taste - spaghetti and meatballs now contained 6 elements instead of the two I was sure it had before, for example.

Lastly, I found that I needed less of everything - less sugar in my tea, less pepper in my soup, less hot sauce on my oysters. It wasn't because the taste was becoming overpowering, it was just because I was content with less.

Add it all up and, yup, my sense of smell and taste has changed for the better, but not in a dramatic or profound way. It also seemed to happen gradually over a period of about 6 months.

I suspect we're all different in the way our bodies adjust with vaping - many will prolly tell you about more sudden and distinct changes, but it sounds like you might be taking a track similar to mine.

 

[ignotus]

Never in my own house, but in my car and any bar or restaurant that allowed it. I could never smell cigarette on myself, but I could tell that other people could (they let you know).

 

[Deeo]

I was one that smoked in my house. My husband and I both did. My brother was here the other day and he hasn't been here in almost a year. He is a non smoker and said that he can't smell smoke in here. So I guess we got it all out. We'll almost there is one closet that we store winter coats in that I have to wash because I can smell it bad when I open that closet. Sad that we both smoked in the house with our children, the smell of cigarette smoke is horrible, not to mention health. As for taste of food, I noticed it about 2-3 weeks in and I remember the first food that tasted amazing. It was a strawberry.

 

[issy]

I only ever smoked outside...never in my house or car. Definitely a difference after a few months...it came out of my clothes, too. My sense of taste got better after a couple weeks - more than anything, I just don't have that smoke smell/taste perpetually in my mouth (yes, I have always brushed, flossed, and used mouthwash...).

I do a bit of housekeeping from time to time...and I cannot stand even going into my smoking clients' homes anymore. It's just a bad smell to me now...I feel like I have to scrub my body down after I leave. Took me about a month after quitting to notice that.

 

[sgilners]

Thanks for the responses everybody!

 

[ProjektMayhem]

I don't think the smell is limited to solid surfaces indoors. Since I stopped smoking if someone walks by me I notice the smell of tobacco and other substances some folks smoke. As a smoker I never noticed, as a non-smoker I feel as it I should apologize to everyone who came in contact with me during my smoking years because I must have reeked! For the record, I smoked outdoors unless weather would not permit (then on porch or in garage) and in my car when driving.

^^This! Now that I haven't been smoking for almost a year when people at work smoke and come back inside I can smell them and it's so gross. When I smoked I couldn't smell it on other people. Probably because I got so used to it on myself. But now I can smell it before they even walk up to me. I had no idea the smell of smoke was that strong when you don't smoke. I hope vaping isn't like that lol.

But since I stopped smoking I can definitely taste and smell better than I could while I was smoking. Food tastes a lot better and I can smell things that I never noticed before. Maybe it doesn't affect some people as bad as others.

 

[edwinoey]

smoking for 3 years more or less. mostly in my garden and cafe. I never ever smoke inside my house. its stink! Cars during traffic jam :S now, I prefer to DRIP and VAPE hehehehe

 

[Maiar]

Always smoked outside. Even when it's cold enough to die outside.

 

[Kenneth38]

In order to avoid families smelling the taste, I always go out and vape. They say that the smell is bad.

 

[bullet08]

in jh, bathroom. in hs, we had smoking court. during summer job, we were allowed to smoke inside.. that was way back in 80s. in college, everywhere. some professors and instructors will allow smoking during finals. before vaping, never in the house. usually in front porch or in my car.

 

[Bunnykiller]

everywhere, anywhere, anytime, but it seemed to be the last decade that things got weird about smoking in public....

 

[smkfree]

Everywhere and anywhere. All the time. 5 months smoke free. Wife is happy. Glad I won't have to repaint all the rooms from the stains on the walls. I can remember when you could smoke on a plane.