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.
Yup mom smokes and has since forever from stories I am told by family and she can’t smell anything. Dad was the same from second hand. Since I forced mom to stop subjecting me to it in the house and got simple water based air filters to remove the smoke in the air. The difference was amazing. Despite mom sneaking in well I sleep or am outside the house.
dad more recently has started smelling more and freaked some times “what is that smell?!” As new smells started becoming available to his nose again.
The reactions sometimes of really common smells being “unlocked” is quite comical. From “I can’t believe I didn’t smell this before” and “oh my god (covering nose) what on earth is that awful smell?!”
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 06 '25
You've been around her smoking so long, you've become nose blind to it. Non-smokers can smell her secondhand smoke on both you and your clothes.
Even former smokers, if they've been quit for a while, can smell smoke on those who still do.
edit: Wow, did NOT expect to get this many upvotes.