for myself and a lot of former smokers i've talked to, no matter how much time has passed nor how bad you think it smells now, there's STILL a non-zero part of you that thinks "omfg that smells delicious"
Former smoker who switched to vaping 15 years ago (unflavored e-juice via liquid synthetic nicotine concentrate+ PG/VG)…
Nah, it’s fucking gross. I was exposed to many smokers from a young age, including close relatives and in enclosed spaces. Found myself addicted and craving cigs before I’d ever smoked one, even though I hated the smoke and the smell. FYI - smoking around your kids at all, let alone without being in a well ventilated environment, should be considered child abuse.
I smoked for a decade before switching to vaping, and don’t miss it at all. I don’t hate the nicotine, just burning stinky cigarettes, and to this day it makes me gag.
Found myself addicted and craving cigs before I’d ever smoked one, even though I hated the smoke and the smell.
That happened to me as well. Most of my family smoked, so I was exposed to it constantly. One day, I noticed it just didn’t stink quite as bad as it used to.
So of course, I started. By the time I was in high school, I couldn’t concentrate or focus unless I smoked. I was so dumb; I had no idea what addiction was.
Former smoker here, and I definitely think it smells gross. However there's still a part of me that goes "Sure, it stinks, but one puff would feel so great right now!"
I’ve never been a smoker, but every now and then I catch a whiff and it smells amazing.
But one time a smoker chick started making out with me at a party and dude her mouth tasted so bad I almost puked. Just burnt and tarry. Blech. If it wasn’t the cigarettes, she must have been eating hot roadkill and the slab of asphalt it was on. Just unbelievably bad
That kind of sealed the deal for me not wanting to smoke, but it still smells good sometimes lol.
seriously. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. the day i started having a problem with nicotine is the day secondhand smoke started smelling good. never should have taken that construction job with the crew where i was the only nonsmoker (and everyone there went through two packs on the job).
moved to utah after that, and would linger by smoker's corner outside the supermarket on the walk home. That's when i knew something had changed. nicotine's powerful.
I was a very heavy smoker, quit over 20 years ago. Smelling or seeing it doesn’t trigger me at all. FWIW no vaping, no drugs or alcohol, not compensating but no triggers for me. I don’t entirely get it either, but I am happy with it.
I've never even been a smoker and I kind of like it, but it's really only because I became acquainted with the smell in bars at 18+ rock shows before smoking was pretty universally banned indoors. I was just pumped to be at the show.
My dad stopped smoking for a little bit to prepare for a big operation. After the op, he asked if we could wheel him into the smoking lounge at the hospital where he was recovering. So begrudgingly we wheeled him in there and with the most sincere shock while we rolled him in, he asked 'wait is this what you always smell when people smoke? This stink?'
Yea, that's what our house smells like. You smoke three packs a day in the same small room. What do you expect.
He died of a completely preventable form of cancer a year later. Kids, don't fucking smoke. It ruins you and the ones you love.
My first house was previously smoked in by someone that probably matched your dad. We put 4 coats of paint on the wall and still couldn’t completely remove the stink.
A buddy of mine tried that after he bought his house. Long story short the ozone reacted with chemicals in the carpet and furniture and produced various toxic aldehydes. His (then) pregnant wife couldn't safely be in the house for like a week afterwards.
Absolutely disgusting... There are ways to clean walls and shit, but it's disgusting. You get these long black goopy ropes of just, tar and shit that Come off the walls.
I had to quit a few months ago and am now cleaning all this build up of black shit out of my bathroom exhaust fan. Makes me glad that shit isnt going into my lungs now
The smell and taste is how I made myself quit smoking. Every time I smoked I made myself focus on the smell and taste and made myself say out loud (when nobody could hear but whatever) “these smell and taste like shit!”
Took about a month and I quit. Never even crave them.
I’m not gonna say that I’ve never smoked but I never developed a habit. I’ve had an occasional cigarette just for the hell of it and once in a play I played a character who was a chain smoker. I smoke weed once in a while but that’s different. But cigarette smell has never bothered me. Almost all my friends smoke. Most of my family smoked. I guess I’m just accustomed to having it around, and if anyone around me lights up, I’m honestly pretty indifferent to it.
At 17 I lost my virginity to a chainsmoker catgirl and it kind of imprinted me to the smell of cigarettes and catgirls even if i don't smoke and I'm not a furry.
and while i know cannabis and tobacco are different, but since starting smoking weed the timbre of my voice has gone from meh to pretty alright. so like, there's a functional thing going on there too
I stopped smoking a couple of days before Christmas. This February we went to Japan but we fucked up the booking for our room in Hokkaido. We booked a smoker room by accident.
The smell was…not as sexy as you might think as a smoker.
Smell is why I quit. My son came home from school and I smelled smoke on him and it just hit me how unfair it was on him. Stopped that day. Wish I had done it much sooner.
Oh my God, that has to be the most accurate fact ever. I smoked for over 30 years, now that shit stinks worse than my farts, and I can clear a stadium on 1 SBD.
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Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 70 pts · 27d
for myself and a lot of former smokers i've talked to, no matter how much time has passed nor how bad you think it smells now, there's STILL a non-zero part of you that thinks "omfg that smells delicious"
tomkatt@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 27d
Former smoker who switched to vaping 15 years ago (unflavored e-juice via liquid synthetic nicotine concentrate+ PG/VG)…
Nah, it’s fucking gross. I was exposed to many smokers from a young age, including close relatives and in enclosed spaces. Found myself addicted and craving cigs before I’d ever smoked one, even though I hated the smoke and the smell. FYI - smoking around your kids at all, let alone without being in a well ventilated environment, should be considered child abuse.
I smoked for a decade before switching to vaping, and don’t miss it at all. I don’t hate the nicotine, just burning stinky cigarettes, and to this day it makes me gag.
loaf@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 26d
That happened to me as well. Most of my family smoked, so I was exposed to it constantly. One day, I noticed it just didn’t stink quite as bad as it used to.
So of course, I started. By the time I was in high school, I couldn’t concentrate or focus unless I smoked. I was so dumb; I had no idea what addiction was.
Ethalis@jlai.lu · 24 pts · 27d
Former smoker here, and I definitely think it smells gross. However there's still a part of me that goes "Sure, it stinks, but one puff would feel so great right now!"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
i'll just walk by these smokers and smell the smoke it ain't so bad
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 27d
Ex smoker 20 years ago. That was true for roughly 5 years after quitting. For the last 15 years it is absolutely revolting to me.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 27d
It's been like 8 years since I quit and still love the smell. About 4 years since I quit weed though and that already smells gross again
kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d
I’ve never been a smoker, but every now and then I catch a whiff and it smells amazing.
But one time a smoker chick started making out with me at a party and dude her mouth tasted so bad I almost puked. Just burnt and tarry. Blech. If it wasn’t the cigarettes, she must have been eating hot roadkill and the slab of asphalt it was on. Just unbelievably bad
That kind of sealed the deal for me not wanting to smoke, but it still smells good sometimes lol.
Nima@leminal.space · 6 pts · 27d
its been over 10 years and this is still true for me. they smell terrible. and delicious.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 26d
seriously. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. the day i started having a problem with nicotine is the day secondhand smoke started smelling good. never should have taken that construction job with the crew where i was the only nonsmoker (and everyone there went through two packs on the job).
moved to utah after that, and would linger by smoker's corner outside the supermarket on the walk home. That's when i knew something had changed. nicotine's powerful.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
Yeah, this unfortunately. Nicotine is very addictive
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
I was a very heavy smoker, quit over 20 years ago. Smelling or seeing it doesn’t trigger me at all. FWIW no vaping, no drugs or alcohol, not compensating but no triggers for me. I don’t entirely get it either, but I am happy with it.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 26d
I've never even been a smoker and I kind of like it, but it's really only because I became acquainted with the smell in bars at 18+ rock shows before smoking was pretty universally banned indoors. I was just pumped to be at the show.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 26d
Give it 10 years, it's gross AF.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 27d
There are great smelling cigarettes. Cold smoke stinks! In particular in the winter
Pro tip: just don't light the tobacco to preserve it's smell
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
One of the best vape juices I had was flavored exactly like a fresh pack of Camel smells right when the wrapper comes off.
The best was same concept but 50/50 pipe tobacco. It disappeared from the face of the earth. 😭
Gladaed@feddit.org · 3 pts · 27d
That's amazing. How hasn't big T figured that out.
Also do those cigarillos with the rich vanilla thing.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 26d
My dad stopped smoking for a little bit to prepare for a big operation. After the op, he asked if we could wheel him into the smoking lounge at the hospital where he was recovering. So begrudgingly we wheeled him in there and with the most sincere shock while we rolled him in, he asked 'wait is this what you always smell when people smoke? This stink?'
Yea, that's what our house smells like. You smoke three packs a day in the same small room. What do you expect.
He died of a completely preventable form of cancer a year later. Kids, don't fucking smoke. It ruins you and the ones you love.
tehn00bi@feddit.org · 8 pts · 26d
My first house was previously smoked in by someone that probably matched your dad. We put 4 coats of paint on the wall and still couldn’t completely remove the stink.
Anivia@feddit.org · 5 pts · 25d
Try an ozone generator (but absolutely do your research on how to use it safely, inhaling ozone is very dangerous)
Hotels use them for rooms that have been smoked in, and used car dealers on smokers cars
almost1337@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 25d
A buddy of mine tried that after he bought his house. Long story short the ozone reacted with chemicals in the carpet and furniture and produced various toxic aldehydes. His (then) pregnant wife couldn't safely be in the house for like a week afterwards.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 26d
Absolutely disgusting... There are ways to clean walls and shit, but it's disgusting. You get these long black goopy ropes of just, tar and shit that Come off the walls.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 27d
Also the stink. I can smell you from 2-3 blocks away. Stinky.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 26d
Every time I drink, I want to smoke sooooo bad. So I ended up stopping drinking too so I don't smoke.
tourist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 26d
Same, except with cocaine.
I still smoke sometimes. Like, one pack a month (at most). I actually prefer those guerilla-marketed nicotine lip pouches.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 26d
Ypu know, that's not "stopping smoking".
tourist@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 26d
oh
I meant to say I crave cocaine when I drank
smoking thing was a tangent
BitchPeas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
Legend
LwL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 26d
It's a far cry from the average smoker that can't go 2 hours without tho
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 26d
Sure, and I hope you'll be able to quit totally one day! I have had so many friends "only smoke a little" that restarted fulltime smoking.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
I was about to disagree with you, then I looked it up. The average is just over 10 PER DAY. That's fucking ridiculous.
RidderSport@feddit.org · 1 pts · 26d
And I wasn't even smoking that much when I was still smoking
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 26d
Win-win!
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 27d
I had to quit a few months ago and am now cleaning all this build up of black shit out of my bathroom exhaust fan. Makes me glad that shit isnt going into my lungs now
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 26d
You were smoking in your bathroom?
I mean I was a pretty heavy smoker for most my life, but I've never smoked in my bathroom.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
Yeah i had a thing for smoking in the shower while listening to music, it was fucking awesome
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
Fair enough!
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 25d
Bath I get, but shower?
How does it not get wet all the time?
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Oh i would have the water on my back while i smoked. They were only durries so they didnt take long
jjlinux@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23d
Wao, I thought I was the only one 🤣
WetHedgeHog@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 26d
like a furry?
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 26d
The smell and taste is how I made myself quit smoking. Every time I smoked I made myself focus on the smell and taste and made myself say out loud (when nobody could hear but whatever) “these smell and taste like shit!”
Took about a month and I quit. Never even crave them.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 26d
My body my choice. I chose to stop using nicotine products. I will choose to start again should i start getting shot at.
Life.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 27d
I’m not gonna say that I’ve never smoked but I never developed a habit. I’ve had an occasional cigarette just for the hell of it and once in a play I played a character who was a chain smoker. I smoke weed once in a while but that’s different. But cigarette smell has never bothered me. Almost all my friends smoke. Most of my family smoked. I guess I’m just accustomed to having it around, and if anyone around me lights up, I’m honestly pretty indifferent to it.
Ravenheart@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 26d
I'll be honest, I actually kind of like the smell of cigarettes, which is why I ain't touching that shit. I know I'd get hooked.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 26d
If I had a nickel for every new release anime about chain smoking.... I still could not even afford a single loose cigarette.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 25d
At 17 I lost my virginity to a chainsmoker catgirl and it kind of imprinted me to the smell of cigarettes and catgirls even if i don't smoke and I'm not a furry.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 26d
The meme is like 99% true.
But watch the video of Portishead's Roseland NYC Live and tell me Beth Gibbons crooning with a cigarette isn't dope as hell. You can't.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 26d
All I can think of is the stinky fingers, and stink breath.
And I did smoke during that time.
The world evolves.
roboflop@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 26d
I do have to wash my hands after I smoke, ngl.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
what, you don't like putting your cigarette on a long stick like a frenchwoman? because i'm trying to bring something back
roboflop@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 26d
I've legit thought about it. Let's be trend setters.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 26d
But we all smelled like that. Or we were 20 and no one cared because we were invincible.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 25d
It isn't the cigarette.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
you aren't wrong.
and while i know cannabis and tobacco are different, but since starting smoking weed the timbre of my voice has gone from meh to pretty alright. so like, there's a functional thing going on there too
rustyfish@piefed.world · 4 pts · 26d
I stopped smoking a couple of days before Christmas. This February we went to Japan but we fucked up the booking for our room in Hokkaido. We booked a smoker room by accident.
The smell was…not as sexy as you might think as a smoker.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 26d
Smell is why I quit. My son came home from school and I smelled smoke on him and it just hit me how unfair it was on him. Stopped that day. Wish I had done it much sooner.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 26d
okay but the first pic on the bottom is of her smoking weed tho
FukOui@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 27d
Should be illegal to post in this sub without a sauce
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 11 pts · 27d
Bottom screens are from Chainsmoker Cat
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 11 pts · 26d
Top screens are from Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
FukOui@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 26d
Thanks
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 26d
First episode is wild
FukOui@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 26d
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
Seen cool smokers. They ain't making a big thing of smoking. They just go out, take 5 mins to smoke, return to whatever they were doing.
Seen goofy smokers. People who are unaccustomed or try to make smoking part of their identity.
Both stink. Both are loathsome to be around. First kind may actually put some work into lessening that like mints tho. Still stink.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 26d
Chainsmoker Cat is an 11/10 anime
jjlinux@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 23d
Oh my God, that has to be the most accurate fact ever. I smoked for over 30 years, now that shit stinks worse than my farts, and I can clear a stadium on 1 SBD.