| You've heard it said that humans have five | | | | correlation of smoke and its ability to trigger a |
| senses-smell, hearing, vision, touch and taste-but only | | | | response in someone trying to quit, there is one aspect |
| two of these senses are based on chemicals - smell | | | | of cigarette smoke that is widely accepted by the |
| and taste. The senses of smell and taste allow us to | | | | non-smoking population: Cigarettes stink! |
| experience the world around us through tiny chemical | | | | The smells of cigarette tobacco may be an |
| properties in the air. This is especially true of cigarette | | | | aphrodisiac for the ever-decreasing smoking population |
| smoke. When a cigarette is consumed, tiny particles | | | | of the world, but for the enormous group of |
| are released into the air, and these chemicals don't | | | | non-smokers, there is nothing worse than that awful |
| disappear as soon as the smoke lifts. In fact, they can | | | | smell. The odor of cigarettes has the ability to |
| linger for days. Moreover, the sense of smell plays a | | | | penetrate the clothes, the hair, the carpet and the |
| vital role in our brain's memory. | | | | drapes. It is not a loyal smell, clinging to the smoker |
| This can be very problematic for the smoker | | | | alone, but extends its foul properties to every living and |
| attempting to quit. Just think, you're going along good, | | | | non-living thing in the vicinity. |
| sticking to your plan and avoiding all the triggers that | | | | It's a smell that doesn't go away very easily, but rather |
| used to send you running for a cigarette, and poof, | | | | lingers and continues to pollute for days on end. And |
| someone lights up and all the memories come flooding | | | | breath? You've heard, I'm sure, the expression "kissing |
| back like a tidal wave. | | | | an ashtray?" Well, it's not just an expression. It's a |
| Many smokers claim to love the smell of cigarette | | | | reality that every wife, husband, girlfriend and boyfriend |
| smoke. They love the way the tobacco smells and | | | | of a non-smoker lives every day. |
| they love the way it makes them feel. Just being | | | | The enjoyment a smoker feels in the presence of |
| around the smell of smoke makes them feel more at | | | | smoke is directly offset by the abhorrence felt by |
| ease. But when you are trying to kick the nasty | | | | non-smokers. It's an objectionable smell that people will |
| addiction of smoking, being subjected to the smells can | | | | go to all lengths to avoid. So before you succumb to |
| prove very costly. Many people attempting to quit | | | | the old memories invoked by tobacco smoke, think for |
| report that the smell of others smoking is a powerful | | | | a bit about those around you. Is it really fair to subject |
| trigger for their own habit. | | | | them to something they so totally detest? |
| While the research is conflicted regarding the | | | | |