This happened to me. Something flipped. I considered it a metaphorical miracle.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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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.
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.
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.
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)
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
Congrats!
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.
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! 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
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.
You look like you have a strong sense of smell too
Weird it’s been 15 years and the smell still makes me jones
I'm so glad to be in this space too. About a year ago, I bought some mini cigars. I was already done with cigarettes for a few years but missed the occasional cigar. It was the worst mistake. I instantly regretted it, and after 2 minutes, I threw them away. I still love the smell of cigars, but damn, smoking them again was awful.
I find cigars just burn my tongue instantly and then i cant taste anything. I dnow if im smoking them wrong but theyre kinda boring