[Freedom4US]

Nonsense! I'm a quitter too, several times, for years at a time, so I have plenty of experience as a 'non smoker' as well. Nicotine does reduce blood flow to the extremities, resulting in noticeably colder feet during the winter, but for me personally, there is no appreciable difference whatsoever. I suppose huffing a ciggie whilst dining would deaden taste buds, but that's a different issue.

Taste, after all, is a matter of taste. I tend towards german beer, belgian chocolate, south american coffee, etc. I find it amusing when others try telling me I have no sense of taste or smell, while they themselves ingest piss water beer, ersatz coffee and candle wax chocolate bars.

[templar]

Nonsense! I'm a quitter too, several times, for years at a time, so I have plenty of experience as a 'non smoker' as well.

To begin with, don't tell me that my experience is nonsense. Secondly, you are quite obviously a "quitter" since you admit that you quit all your attempts at quiting. BUT, you definitely are not an ex-smoker. You're just an on again/off again smoker that never stays quit quite long enough to actually kick the habit. Loss of sense of taste and smell are very documentable affects of smoking. Stay quit for 20 or so years, then tell me about it, till then, don't pretend you know what it is like to be an ex-smoker for purposes of comparison. You don't.