Smoking...?

Question

Does smoking change your voice?Like sound different then normal?

Cos i smoke and am only 20 trying to give them up at the moment!

Answer 1

First of all Dry Dreamer is an idiot.
Secondly, smoking effects your voice by making it raspier, if you get cancer you can LOSE your voice, it can kill you, it can make you go blind, you can end up never being allowed to eat for the rest of your life and you'll have to be fed through a tube, you can lose all salivary glands which means talking will cause you great discomfort.
Surely all those reasons will encourage you to quit!

Answer 2

Hello Finnbar,
Yes I smoke about as many per day as you do, and I have tried many times to quit, my voice is a bit like, bass baritone rather than a boy soprano, but advancing years may have something to do with it too, after all who wants to be a boy soprano at my age, I'd get laughed at all over the place. So it would also seem to be true, that smoking would make your voice seem a bit 'gruffer' so to speak.
What I say is all things in moderation, would be a good rule of thumb here Finnbar, as in too much booze will make you an alcoholic, to much food will increase your size and weight, too many late nights could make you lazy and lethargic all through the next day. Then too much smoking will make your voice deeper, and even affect your health and well being.
Good luck in your endeavour to quit Finnbar, but if you should fail to quit, don't worry, smoke lighter smokes, and fewer of them, that's what I do. seems to work for me, and concentration on other things, will take your mind away from your smokes box, which in turn, might, be easier on your voice box. I hope this helps you out my friend.. Bye for now..Tony M...

Answer 3

Yes it does after a few years. If you listen to an older person who has always smoked they usually have a more croaky voice than a non smoker.

Good luck with giving up!

Answer 4

yes smoking changes the way u sound because of the shortness of breath and the stress it puts on your vocials,as the lungs fills with smoke the after years go by you start breathing with shorter strokes of breath you fight for air to fill the lungs and when it does it hurts but addiction gets you and sooner than you think you end up with a cough and it starts to hurt ending with the change of voice and the harsh feeling in your chest,to answere you question yes it does..

Answer 5

Yes, I used to do quite a lot af amateur singing and now I can't reach the high notes that I used to.If I catch a cold, I find that it rumbles on for longer than my friends who do not smoke and it takes a fair while for that manky gunk to clear away when you cough. Wish I could give up the fags but it's not easy!!

Answer 6

I'm not too sure... I'm a smoker and have been for a very long time, and I think that my voice sounds quite low (I'm a female, but I'm no Deidre Barlow!!) but if I hear my voice recorded, I sound like I've been on the old helium!!

Answer 7

It makes your voice deeper, but that's not so much of a problem for a guy -- in fact, smoking can actually make it sound better. I think my voice has gotten slightly lower since I started smoking

Answer 8

yes I believe smoking does change your voice, but only after a few years.

Answer 9

I smoke, but havn't noticed a difference in my voice. Dont know if anyone else has though

Answer 10

There have been a number of cases where a heavy smoker has had a voice change through developing mouth or throat cancer.