[Grammar] duration form

[licinio]

We learn in grammar that when the action started a while before the time of speakinig and continues (also in the negative) up to that moment (with for or since), you have to use a perfect tense.
Now, I found this sentence that puzzled me:

I don't smoke anymore since quite recently,

because, applying the rule, I would have said

I haven't smoked anymore since quite recently

Am I wrong?

 

[freezeframe]

We learn in grammar that when the action started a while before the time of speakinig and continues (also in the negative) up to that moment (with for or since), you have to use a perfect tense.
Now, I found this sentence that puzzled me:

I don't smoke anymore since quite recently,

because, applying the rule, I would have said

I haven't smoked anymore since quite recently

Am I wrong?

I haven't smoked... implies that they might smoke again at some later time.
They don't smoke anymore. They gave up smoking. Now they're not a smoker. :-D

 

[curates-egg]

I don't smoke anymore since quite recently.

= Not a Teacher=

This sentence seems to me most unnatural. I do not think it is possible to use the present simple with "since" in this way. I also think that "any more" must be two words.

 

[Raymott]

I don't smoke anymore since quite recently.

= Not a Teacher=

This sentence seems to me most unnatural. I do not think it is possible to use the present simple with "since" in this way. I also think that "any more" must be two words.

It's so easy to avoid embarrassing yourself like this by doing a quick dictionary check.
anymore - definition of anymore by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Anyhow (one word), to the point, licino:
You can say, "I haven't smoked since [time]", but 'anymore' or 'any more' don't belong with that tense.

 

[freezeframe]

Any more can be two words. Just not here.