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[–] 70 points 1 month ago (16 children)

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"

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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    [–] 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    Also the stink. I can smell you from 2-3 blocks away. Stinky.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Every time I drink, I want to smoke sooooo bad. So I ended up stopping drinking too so I don't smoke.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Same, except with cocaine.

    I still smoke sometimes. Like, one pack a month (at most). I actually prefer those guerilla-marketed nicotine lip pouches.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Ypu know, that's not "stopping smoking".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's a far cry from the average smoker that can't go 2 hours without tho

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    like a furry?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    My body my choice. I chose to stop using nicotine products. I will choose to start again should i start getting shot at.

    Life.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    If I had a nickel for every new release anime about chain smoking.... I still could not even afford a single loose cigarette.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    okay but the first pic on the bottom is of her smoking weed tho

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Should be illegal to post in this sub without a sauce

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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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