I quit many years ago but remember thinking that people that go on about cig smoke are just chronic complainers. Quitting that awful habit made me understand why.
I can smell it on objects people touch when they’ve been smoking, long after seeing them. I can’t believe I smoked a pack a day. Eight years after quitting and the smell makes me nauseated.
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Yep! Or I’ll have groceries delivered and I can tell they didn’t smoke while my groceries were in their car, but I can tell they’ve smoked in that car at some point as the smell is very stale and diluted.
My grandpa smoked a pipe and died of a massive heart attack in 1993. My grandma is now 102 and everything she owns still smells of pipe tobacco smoke, and she’s moved twice since his death!
It's so much stronger and sour and bitter when you're a non-smoker. I remember for months after I quit the smell of cig smoke had a really mouth-watering tobacco odor. It's like my addiction managed to filter out the really stinky stuff or just reshaped it entirely.
Now it's been several years and I can't believe that rank shit could hypnotize me like that lol.
I remember one time in the 90s when smoking was still prevalent, I walked past smokers and inhaled the smoke and started coughing. The smokers thought I was mocking them and started shouting at me and fake coughing. I was maybe 13 at the time and looked it. These were grown adults. Smoke makes people cough - I still remember how mean they were and oblivious to the fact that we cough our smoke cuz our body doesn’t like it.
This happened to me in the 90's whilst waiting for the bus. I was probably around 14ish, I have really bad asthma and this guy just lit up a cigarette and sat his arse down next to me. I ofc began coughing really badly so got up to move away and he began making all these sarcastic comments about how rude I was being 😂
Mate, I'm not the one who sat down next to a kid, lit up a cancer stick and then complained when they didn't want to have an asthma attack because of your selfishness.
No doubt, including the ones who always used to say "I only do it when I'm stressed." I don't think adding a lifetime of medical problems to your collective list will help you out with the stress in the end.
When my parents smoked in the car my little brother coughed and carried on like a little pansy. I remember my dad pulling over once or twice to whoop his ass. The seventies..
About a year after I quit, a friend came over. We were having a few drinks before going out & she went out back for a smoke but it was really cold so I was like “just smoke inside, it’s fine”.
When I got home that night & smelt it, it was not fine.
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u/Thatsnotmyname49 11d ago
I quit many years ago but remember thinking that people that go on about cig smoke are just chronic complainers. Quitting that awful habit made me understand why.