I Can Smell Smoke All the Time

Interesting I've been smelling cigarette smoke increasingly for the last 10 days and I am not a smoker neither am I around them. I don't drink coffee but lately I did and a noticed that the smell issues coincided with the coffee drinking. I stopped drinking coffee before yesterday and so far no more cigarette smell. I am wondering if here is indeed a relation and if so if indeed is not a serious matter that one we should be concerned. Thank you for sharing your experience.

I was beginning to think this was in my head. I'm so glad I'm not the only person. I do not smoke and yet everywhere I go I smell smoke. I feel like I smell like it. I've showered, washed my hair, my clothes and I still smell the cigarette smoke. This has been going on for about a month now. I detest the smell and fell like if I go talk to my doctor he's going to think I'm off my rocker!

According to what I've read it could be infection in the nasal passages etc or signs of a stroke

I'm noticing from last couple months that

I took Phentermine intermittently over a 10 year period. I would use the drug over 4 to 5 months, then stop for maybe 6-12 months, then resume for a few months. Whenever I took Phentermine, I experienced olfactory hallucinations, or phantosmia.. The odors were different; individual odors lasted for weeks, and stopped with phentermine cessation. These odors were not unpleasant, sometimes smoky, but they were constant and pervasive. I felt that each time I used phentermine I traded off loss of smell for weight loss. I haven't taken phentermine in over 5 years and I feel my sense of smell to be permanently impaired. I believe this is an idiosyncratic reaction to phentermine.

I am having similar problems. I only seem to smell the smoke when I am indoors or in dry conditions. Whilst on holiday we had the aircon on in the bedroom at night and I would wake because the smell was so strong. I am now wondering if this could be the answer!!

Hi iwantsnow. How did you make out at the neurologist?

I have this too. Exactly as you describe. I do have some additional information. In my case, this first started when I burned some soup on the stove. The carbon from the vegetables burned under the intense heat and formed a black sooty residue on my stovetop. While it was burning, it was so intense it set off the smoke detector. The house was so thick with it you could see it. This is the first time I smelled this smell. If you go into a small restarurant where they grill stuff and never clean the grill, you can also smell this smell. It's the smell of carbon from burnt food. Some of it goes onto the grill as a black residue and some of it goes into the air. I do regularly cook and have taken steps to reduce the carbon that is burnt. My gym just happens to be next to a small deli where they never clean the grill. But my office? No one is burning anything in there. Yet, I smell it. And I can smell it at my house when I have not cooked recently. It's almost like the nose is hyper-sensitized and starts to detect it in the parts per billion. Or like some of you say smells it when it's not there. But then why do I not smell it outdoors? Maybe there's a lot more carbon in the air than we realized before and now we can smell it. I think the world is a lot dirtier than we realized. But my jury is still out of course as to what this is.

Wow! I have a new job and they have a $2000 fancy coffee machine with 9 flavors. I've been going full blast on the coffee. I started to think of what changed recently and somehow associated the coffee with the smell, but only subconciously kinda. Your post seems correct! Now I have a new reason not to drink coffee. A couple of days of head aches and mental fog, and I'll be home free.

Yet another smoke smeller here, I have numerous health issues, one of them being anosmia, I can't smell a thing, haven't been able to for a couple of years now, but recently over the last couple of months, I've been smelling smoke when there is none, is smell it indoors and out, at work, at home, anywhere, not all the time, but frequently, I haven't been to my doctors yet though, and not sure if I should bother them.

I have been miserable for months constantly smelling ciggaretts everywhere when there is none. Cured it last night and I have never been happier!!!!! All I can say is Bragg raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar amazing stuff I'm in love. I diluted it in a nasal douching bottle I put 2 tsp with distilled or purified water in the bottle. Sat in tub and started flushing sinuses with it. Holy crap it hurts but I really wanted to be well . I suffered though this for to bottles full. It cleaned out like nothing other ever before and no more smell. Today I am completely clear of congestion and that dreadful smell!! This stuff saved my life!! Good luck I know it will help yall

I have been smelling smoke for months. The ENT nurse said that some people smell smoke and some smell a sweet smell. I had major sinus surgery in 2013 and have had migraines for 24 years. I have been sick with infections and asthma since the surgery. My GI doctor told me I needed a neurologist and referred me to one. I saw him today and he said I am having olfactory seizures (the same thing the GI said). I was prescribed anti seizure meds (which I probably will not take). They ordered a EEG and an MRI of the brain. I am scared to death that it is something serious. Fed up with the medical profession. I recently had a balloon sinusplasty to help sinuses drain. I am more plugged up than ever!

Same issues. I have tried Vicks, but I can still smell the cigarette smoke over the Vicks. The smell is so strong that it takes my breath away. I also wake up at choking because it feels like I'm choking on smoke. I have also been having increased vision problems. Most of the times everything is blurry. I have to increase the font size on my computer, and I can't go outside without sunglasses. I don't know if the are related, but I am definitely calling the VA tomorrow for an appointment.

It's so awful ,, driving me nuts , I've read all the horror stories , scary

I can smell smoke all the time and I have alot of problems with Sinus infection. Is this why I can smell the smoke?