Years and years of struggling with quitting because my brain never really hit the zone where smoking itself seemed unappealing and now somehow out of nowhere the stench is absolutely disgusting. Like my boyfriend comes home smelling of cigarettes and its so intensely gross i have to breath through my mouth. The offer of a cigarette doesnt work as well anymore i think i finally hit it folks i might actually be there. My lungs ravioli rejoice
I just started quitting again, I managed to go from March 2023 to November of 2024, but fell off the wagon cause of the US election results. Now I’m employed I decided that it’s better if I don’t continue the habit that actively gives me cancer, so I’m taking the long weekend for the holidays to get back on the wagon and get that first 3 day hump of withdrawal out of the way.
That can’t have been easy. Respect.
I have to thank tobacco companies for making cigarettes absolutely disgusting. I dont remember them being as foul as they are today but theyre about as nice as smoking damp newspaper fished out of a sewer
Probably enshittified like everything else
Hasnt even been real tobacco for ages its literally shredded paper sprayed in tobacco juice lol
Honestly? It helps me stay quit. I bought a pack of camels a year ago, not premium but not bottom of the barrel. The fact that they tasted worse than I remember helped reinforce my conviction to stay away.
This happened to me. Something flipped. I considered it a metaphorical miracle.
the smell for real. it was nice to wash all my clothes and have them smell good again, for ever.
sense of smell and taste sensitivity heighten dramatically after a while. its crazy how tobacco smoke deadens everything.
Amazing, proud of you.
It’s fortunate they smell so shit because more people probably would smoke if it wasn’t so gross-smelling. Like why do you think people use fruit flavor vapes?
All vapes smell the same to me like that candyfloss smell and i hate that also
Yep. It makes it easier to stop if you get tempted too. Whenever I cheat (usually from social smoking) I get tormented by the smell of cigarettes in my beard and the awful gritty feeling in my teeth and that puts me off of resuming the habit.
Same, I’ll bum a smoke off someone occasionally if I’m drinking and while I do enjoy it in the moment I hate the way the smell clings to my facial hair. It definitely helps keep me away from smoking more often (as well as cost, health impacts, etc)
I smoked off and on through my 20s and find that the longer you go without them the worse they taste, but I was never into it as more than something to do while on breaks / driving somewhere.
Congrats!
Im lucky blood clots or some kinda vascular system dysfunction scared/harmed me into quitting because I still love the smell and vibes of cigarettes yet I have zero temptation. I smoked a pack or two a day of Marlboro Red 100’s for 13 years, after many failed attempts at quitting I have no idea how I’d do it if I didn’t have my brain rewired by severe pain because I fucking love the smell of second hand cigarette smoke
Smoking malboro reds is self harm… i smoked those too i think they made me hate it faster
Congratulations! Same thing happened to me with booze a while back, I just suddenly soured on the whole idea.
My unsolicited advice is to write yourself a little note or letter on your phone about how good you feel after a few days/weeks off. Reading it back has saved me from random urges quite a few times over the years.
I had that happen a few months into my final quit: one of my coworkers came to talk to me after a smoke break and it was revolting. Now, it’s been ten years quit after ten years of at least a pack a day. So, welcome to the other side. It only gets better.
You look like you have a strong sense of smell too
Weird it’s been 15 years and the smell still makes me jones
Congratulations! I had my last cig 2.5 years ago, I was at a conference and saw a bunch of people smoking, thought why not, its been a while, bummed one and then smoked that sucker. And it was disgusting. I felt sick, I couldn’t get the disgusting smell out of my nose for like a week.
It feels good to be sickened by cig smoke
