OK  I am losing my mind.  For the last two days I have smelled smoke.  Cigarette smoke mind you.  I smell it at home, at church, at the grocery store, and at work.  I was up until 130am this morning defrosting my freezer cuz I thought it smelled hot.  I do not smoke, and smoking is not allowed in the places I mentioned.  I ran my air conditoner last nite for a while to see if there was something in the air and I know the ac filter would filter it out.  NO!  I still smell even now as I am writing this.  My eyes water, burn, I am sneezing and bit stuffy.  I dont think its an allergy.  I have never heard of an allergy smelling like smoke.  No one else seems to smell this smoke  and they are looking me rather strangely when I mention it.  Do I need a shrink?  Is this just a phase I am goiing thru?
The weather has been cool, damp, and rainy, could be some form of a mold that I smell?

Another thought.  Am I need of a vacation?  Somewhere sunny perhaps?

Deb

Debr,
Have you had this happen before, where you smell something no one else smells?  If so, you may just be supersensitive to certain smells and odors.  My co-workers and family refer to me as the canary.  I can smell many things long before they can (if they ever smell it).  I am usually aware of smoke in the air before the "general population".  When there are fires in Montana or California and the winds are right, I can smell the smoke in the air here in Minnesota.  It sometimes drives me nuts that I am the only one that can smell it.

You might try a little aroma therapy to see if that clears your sense of the smoke smell.  Replace the "smoke" with something else - lavendar, roses, something soothing to you.

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Well, the the smell has gone.  I cant smell it at all now.  I am asthmatic and very sensitive to smoke.  If I am in the presence of cigerette smoke too long, it will put me in the hospital.  That is why the smell so concerned me.  God took care of the smell so all is well now.  Thanks all of you.

Debr