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What does Crack Smell Like?
I am pretty sure my boyfriend has smoked it in our house. In my upstairs bathroom to be exact. When he does the whole upstairs has this discusting, toxic like smell. Sorta like burning plastic with urine and a hit of ****. Not to mention that the whole upstairs smells like it and I feel sick to my stomach after going into the bathroom when it smells like that. I ask him and he says he doesnt smell it, that its nothing. Im smelling stuff. My concern is not only that hes doing it in my house but my son has asthma. He has weezed when he comes upstairs to that smell. Its only happend twice and the first time I didnt know what I was smelling. (everything I knew about drugs was from watching TV) After he came home last time, I smelled it on his breath and off his skin. Told him to shower and then the upstairs smelled like it. Im not crazy right. Is that what it smells like? Posted: 02/28/2011 12:05 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? It is disgusting smelling, ransit smelling (don't know how to spell it). When you kiss them, your lips burn and it tastes like your lips are numb. Almost like tin foil. I was in a house for many years with a crack addict and you end up thinking that you are high all the time. When I moved out I actually thought I was going through withdrawls. It was horrible. Please remove your child. My husband blamed it on a friend and said they were smoking a cigarette everytime I came home. He always had the bathroom fan going. Then he decided he was going to be smarter then me and started to inject it. My husband died one month today. Hugs to you and remember to take care of yourself and your child. Brenda Posted: 02/28/2011 1:11 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Hi Chucky, yes crack has a very distinctive smell. It has a very toxic odour. Kind of like plastic that is burning. If you are smelling that on his clothes and breath, then he is probably smoking it and smoking it in your home. Many addicts will go in the bathroom and smoke as that is considerd a private place. In fact, I knew a guy who would come home after work and shower and smoke it almost every night in the shower. Trust that gut feeling. Good luck, Posted: 02/28/2011 1:28 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Well said Tangled. I will get better at saying things like that. Chucky, Tangled is so right, his friends and his love for his drug is way more important then you and your son. Tell him to leave and don't be like me and leave the home and then allow him and his habit take over. You are better than that and remember the serenity prayer. You can't change anyone, just have the courage to change the things that you can. Love Brenda Posted: 02/28/2011 3:16 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Thanks ladies. I know I need to get tough and send him to the curb. Just sucks that the right things are so hard to do! So its common for them to say "come home from a party" and take a shower? He does it all the time. I thought it was to get rid of the smell. He would wash his clothes too. But Hes smoking it in my bathroom. I almost want to take the bathroom doors off! Not like he or my son use them, unless hes smoking in there or Im raving mad and want to have my annual scream at the shower head! Posted: 02/28/2011 3:23 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? You are definately smelling crack. Where is he getting money for that? Your things may start turning up missing, and being pawned for drug money. Take a look around. Anything missing yet? Just your money that he is sucking out of you like a leech so far? It only gets worse. Posted: 02/28/2011 3:41 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Yes, the bathroom can hold many surprises. Thats the first place we started to find evidence, not the last. Hope you make good decisions....they are yours to make. Posted: 03/01/2011 1:52 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Sadly, I too have been dealing with this recently and I know how you can be torn, but you have to find a way to be okay with removing yourself and your child from that volatile situation. My ex-fiance just went to detox-rehab on 4/9 and I'm just now getting the chance to process how this has taken a toll on me. We've been together for 6 years and he has lied and kept this secret from me the whole time. I never knew he had a history with drugs until he told me that he was being followed by spies who were using fancy devices to project random images in and around the house. He believed these people were implanting parasites in his skin, so he plucked bald spots in his head and sealed them with nail polish to prevent the implantation. Clearly delusional. It was after that that things started to make sense- the missing spoons, crappy mood swings, the all nighters, etc... His whole family knew about his hostory with drugs and none of them thought it was any of my business. They were gonna let me marry him knowing full well I didn't know. I'm just venting.. Posted: 04/12/2011 12:34 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? omg im goin thru the same thing my boyfriends mom is a big crack head and everytime she is messd up he seems messed up and he will go to the bathroom constantly n come out a totally dif person and it always smells lk burning condoms!! Posted: 08/11/2011 8:53 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? I found this site as I was trying to determine if the smell coming from my neighbor's apartment is crack. But I was very touched by your situation. MY thoughts and prayers are with you. Posted: 01/20/2012 8:06 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? I found this site as I was trying to determine if the smell coming from my neighbor's apartment is crack. But I was very touched by your situation. MY thoughts and prayers are with you. Posted: 01/20/2012 8:06 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? You've heard the saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. You have a son with asthma. This should be an easy choice. Women don't always do what is best for themselves. We tend to put our needs last, but that changes when you have a child that is being put at risk by your boyfriend's behavior. Trust your gut and don't wait for absolute proof. By then it could be too late. Posted: 01/21/2012 7:51 AM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Crack smells like a sh*tty life. It's more than a smell. It permeates everything in your existence. Posted: 01/21/2012 2:44 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? Does crack smell like a skunk? I have smelled it before when "someone" came home from a friends house. I smelled it again and they said That is what "so n so's" house smells like. They smoke crack, that is why I don't like going there. I said then why did you? they said, I had to cause the person I was with went there...... It's a longer story, that I don't want to get into. But anyway, all I need to know is Can crack smell like real strong skunk? Posted: 02/21/2016 1:11 AM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? It sounds like you are in the beginning stages of what i can only describe as a nightmare. back in 2011 i started dating a guy i had went to school with but hadn't seen for years. unknown to me he was a crackhead, a functioning one but only to the point that he would work to make money to smoke it. the first 3 months we lived together he would vanish and not come home until the middle of the night and i thought he was cheating on me, until one day he told me he was going to walk to the store and didn't come back for almost 2 days with a nonsense story about twisting his ankle and "resting" in an abandoned house the entire time. While he was "missing" i called his family and they told me the truth about him. LSS, I was dumb enough to end up trying it, and for the next 9 months we sold/pawned everything and at one point he went to jail for counterfeit money. Point is i have experience with it. So yes it has a very distinct chemical smell, along with the smells of burnt metal/glass. you know how if you take a lighter to something like that it has a weird smell and leaves soot on it? well that soot will leave black stuff on their lips and/or fingertips. they will likely have a small thin object like a screwdriver, long nail, or even a stick if they get desperate enough that is referred to as a "push". Glass pens sold in cheap mini marts are preferred for smoking and steel wool aka "chore", usually the copper kind torn into small bits will likely be with the push and whatever they are using to smoke out of. the fact that you said the smell makes you sick to your stomach is a sure sign of it being crack, because when you smoke it the first hit is usually enough to turn your stomach and even make you gag on it or dry heave. my advice to you, is to get you and your family as far away from him and any of his shady friends as well. in my experience if one of them is doing it, they all are. NOTHING is beneath them once they become addicted to it. Cheating, lying, stealing... why did i quit? well in addition to lying to people i cared about my bf decided that giving drug dealers in the ghetto counterfeit money and coming back to the crack house was a good decision to get his fix and almost got us shot. if that's not what you want in your life i HIGHLY recommend running as fast and as far from this person as possible. Please learn from my mistakes. That goes for anyone who reads this since i'm a bit late on this comment. be safe people. Posted: 08/27/2016 4:38 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? I sincerely appreciate the honesty and advice given here from former addicts or users... My 7y daughter's father is a high functioning addict and will literally get high on anything and everything from Whip its if he's broke to cocaine if he's rolling in the dough. He's an aerospace engineer making at least $75k a year and complains to anyone who'll listen about the $8k he pays in child support per year. He won't buy his daughter anything new and only has hand me downs for her at his place, meanwhile brags about his brand new everything be it his wardrobe with matching shoes and belts or his furniture or electronics. I left and took my daughter to a domestic violence shelter when she was 11mos and never went back. It has taken me 6y and multiple court hearings, 2attorneys, and a court appointed Brief Focused Assessor to finally get his visitations stopped till he complies with hair follicle drug testing every 3mos, completion of a drug and alcohol treatment, etc. To top this off... After losing his license for 8-10y for his driving offenses while high or drunk, he got his license reinstated all of 10mos before he got ANOTHER DUI ( felony) for driving on the wrong way/one way under the influence of either drugs or alcohol...that court and charges are pending. I say sill this out of appreciation of those of you who chose to get cleaned up and advise others to get the hell out of these toxic almost always hopeless situations. My ex has no rock bottom...you'd think everyone would and should have a rock bottom but I've literally seen him lose everything in the 5y I dated him prior to our daughter being born and I was supposedly "the love of his life, soul mate, yada yada..." I call BS on that... A true addict has one love and that is whatever their vice is and the chase to get it. My ex lost me, I called our dream wedding off 1week before because he was high, drunk, or both and assaulted me at 5mos pregnant and threw my wedding gown and bridal party gowns into the streets of downtown along with his wedding band. He has lost at least 5jobs including his dream job at Learjet... And yes he now has another amazing engineering job but I'm sure he'll eventually lose it too. Most of his family have given up on him except his parents are his bigger enablers... I can't get them to see that I'm not taking their granddaughter from them...just him until he gets clean if that ever happens. I try to tell them, they can have a relationship with their granddaughter that doesn't include their dysfunctional son and his addictions but he somehow always manipulates them into thinking he is clean and really, truly is the victim, not able to see his daughter. It's sickening and sad. My daughter deserves a dad in every sense of the role...provider, protector, and hero. Instead, for now all he is is a child support payment..and that'll last till he loses his next job. But anyways, thank you again to those of you who found something or someone more important than the high and thank you for your brutal honesty and advise to tell this OP woman to get her and her son out of the situation. My daughter has been left alone in shady hotels, house parties, and vehicles by her dad while he was high or in pursuit of getting high...and it is ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD she hasn't had anything terrible happen to her one of those times. May you ago be blessed and stay clean. Life can be wonderful without it. Find your passions and your purpose and let that be your ultimate high...and keep helping others. Posted: 08/21/2017 3:28 PM
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In Response to: What does Crack Smell Like? I sincerely appreciate the honesty and advice given here from former addicts or users... My 7y daughter's father is a high functioning addict and will literally get high on anything and everything from Whip its if he's broke to cocaine if he's rolling in the dough. He's an aerospace engineer making at least $75k a year and complains to anyone who'll listen about the $8k he pays in child support per year. He won't buy his daughter anything new and only has hand me downs for her at his place, meanwhile brags about his brand new everything be it his wardrobe with matching shoes and belts or his furniture or electronics. I left and took my daughter to a domestic violence shelter when she was 11mos and never went back. It has taken me 6y and multiple court hearings, 2attorneys, and a court appointed Brief Focused Assessor to finally get his visitations stopped till he complies with hair follicle drug testing every 3mos, completion of a drug and alcohol treatment, etc. To top this off... After losing his license for 8-10y for his driving offenses while high or drunk, he got his license reinstated all of 10mos before he got ANOTHER DUI ( felony) for driving on the wrong way/one way under the influence of either drugs or alcohol...that court and charges are pending. I say sill this out of appreciation of those of you who chose to get cleaned up and advise others to get the hell out of these toxic almost always hopeless situations. My ex has no rock bottom...you'd think everyone would and should have a rock bottom but I've literally seen him lose everything in the 5y I dated him prior to our daughter being born and I was supposedly "the love of his life, soul mate, yada yada..." I call BS on that... A true addict has one love and that is whatever their vice is and the chase to get it. My ex lost me, I called our dream wedding off 1week before because he was high, drunk, or both and assaulted me at 5mos pregnant and threw my wedding gown and bridal party gowns into the streets of downtown along with his wedding band. He has lost at least 5jobs including his dream job at Learjet... And yes he now has another amazing engineering job but I'm sure he'll eventually lose it too. Most of his family have given up on him except his parents are his bigger enablers... I can't get them to see that I'm not taking their granddaughter from them...just him until he gets clean if that ever happens. I try to tell them, they can have a relationship with their granddaughter that doesn't include their dysfunctional son and his addictions but he somehow always manipulates them into thinking he is clean and really, truly is the victim, not able to see his daughter. It's sickening and sad. My daughter deserves a dad in every sense of the role...provider, protector, and hero. Instead, for now all he is is a child support payment..and that'll last till he loses his next job. But anyways, thank you again to those of you who found something or someone more important than the high and thank you for your brutal honesty and advise to tell this OP woman to get her and her son out of the situation. My daughter has been left alone in shady hotels, house parties, and vehicles by her dad while he was high or in pursuit of getting high...and it is ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD she hasn't had anything terrible happen to her one of those times. May you ago be blessed and stay clean. Life can be wonderful without it. Find your passions and your purpose and let that be your ultimate high...and keep helping others. Posted: 08/21/2017 3:28 PM
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