Long term smoker. Halfway through today cigarettes have started to taste awful. Wth?

[Lilll]

I have smoked for several years, I know I need to quit but it has been a crux through a difficult time.

This morning when I had one it was fine and taste the way they always do, then half way through the day when I had another it tastes disgusting and totally different.

I thought it might be a bad batch so I bought another packet in a different shop, got a different brand just incase and low and behold the exact same plastic/chemical/acrid taste.

My partner smokes occasionally and insists he can't tell a difference which is making me think I'm losing the plot!

Clutching at straws but I was using a sizable amount of mould spray today in the shed so I'm wondering if ingesting that has caused it.

Any ideas?

Covid?

Pregnancy?

Any chance you might be pregnant?

Covid? How's your sense of smell?

In any case, the universe really to want to help you give up! Now's the time 👍

I would suggest you get a CoVID test.

Another one saying you need a test! Covid, and possible a pregnancy one too!

Up the duff!

I've had covid (possibly twice according to the genomics people - I'm part of a study)

Possibly in March but then confirmed by test in July after another bout of illness.

I can taste and smell everything else just fine, no change to my taste buds where food and drink are concerned.

It's really bloody weird.

Using chemicals do that to me , especially bleach smell

Pregnancy is unlikely as I'm on contraception, but I appreciate nothing is %100. I'm not due on my period for another three days. Oh crap.

I was hoping somebody would say yeah it's the mould spray

@pompey38

Using chemicals do that to me , especially bleach smell

Oo really? With cigarettes?!

I’m voting chemivals too

I try to avoid in the home now as I was noticing it would affect me for a while after

I still would take a covid test just to be safe and also a pregnancy test.

Yes , I cannot go to swimming pools either because of the chlorine smell , these two are the only chemicals that do that . It will go away , have some hot drink and give it few hours

When I was pregnant with my first this happened to me, but with gin. I bloody loved my gin and one day I just couldn't drink it, I thought it had gone off it tasted awful to me. Had no idea I was pregnant until then.

I also agree that it could be the chemicals. When I quit smoking, I did so by taking up swimming because the chlorine meant smoking tasted disgusting, like drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth.

I’m a smoker - seize this opportunity to quit op! I would if I could

Pregnant? I had the same with all of mine

I’ve not smoked for years and years now but back when I did the first clue I was pregnant with DD1 was the fact cigarettes suddenly tasted awful and I lost my desire to smoke. For a few days I kept lighting a cigarette out of habit and then after a few puffs ended up putting it out. It still didn’t occur to me I might be pregnant until I gagged on my cornflakes one morning, I POAS that evening and sure enough it was positive.

I would take a test if I were you.

when i smoked, after id been at swimming ciggies tasted very weird for a while due to the chlorine so could be chemicals

I’ve had this happen several times over many years. I know the exact taste. It will just stop, mine have lasted from days to a week or more (my entire honeymoon it happened that was 10 days)

I used to have this problem when I smoked. I was very particular about which brand I smoked as I only liked certain ones but I noticed if I’d bleached the floors or bathroom my cigarettes would taste weird, like the cheap fake fags I used to buy as a teenager. I still get it with my vape but it tastes like cooking oil rather than flavoured and the bad taste doesn’t last as long as I did with fags.

Long time smoker here..I can't smoke for hours after I bleach my bathroom because it tastes and smells so bad

Covid was the first thing that jumped out at me.

It is a change in taste/smell- not just a loss of. You need to test and isolate.

I'm glad I posted, I'm sufficiently reassured that I'm not losing the plot. To hear others say they've had this happen after using chemicals/swimming is music to my ears

I will see if I can get a covid test just incase, if you think they won't consider me a time waster? I'm almost certain it won't be that, but given that the taste thing is a symptom it's probably best to have one.

Ditto a pregnancy test though I think I would rather have covid again

if I’d bleached the floors or bathroom my cigarettes would taste weird, like the cheap fake fags I used to buy as a teenager

This! I used to buy the odd jin ling from other teens at school because I was a little shit and today my cigarettes tasted exactly the same, complete with the slight burny mouth feeling that I never usually get with my regular smokes.