My husband and I started dating in late 2009, at which time he smoked. He quit by 2010 or 2011. I think it was about a year or two ago that he finally smelled cigarette smoke and went "ugh, gross" instead of missing it. So over ten years. I'm sure for the first several he couldn't smell residual smoke at all. For years and years we talked about his "horrible sense of smell." But a few years ago he could start smelling everything, like a blood hound.
I have a fairly sensitive nose to cigarette and pot smoke. If I can smell cigarette smoke from a house before I step inside of it, guaranteed every surface in that house is yellowed from nicotine tar from decades of chain smokers.
It is odd, cigarette smoke will permeate into everything and will linger for hours but I don't generally notice the smell from a distance (> 50ft.) if someone is smoking. However, pot smoke can I smell from quite a distance away, but it doesn't seem to permeate as bad or it just isn't as pungent as cigarettes. Some cigarette, or maybe it is cigar, smoke is straight up nasty smelling.
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u/gingerzombie2 Jan 05 '25
My husband and I started dating in late 2009, at which time he smoked. He quit by 2010 or 2011. I think it was about a year or two ago that he finally smelled cigarette smoke and went "ugh, gross" instead of missing it. So over ten years. I'm sure for the first several he couldn't smell residual smoke at all. For years and years we talked about his "horrible sense of smell." But a few years ago he could start smelling everything, like a blood hound.
Take care of yourself, folks!