two-year contract extension at the end of the season, keeping him tied to the club until the summer of 2013. He started in the club's first game of the 2011–12 season, a 1–0 loss to Walsall at the Bescot Stadium. Smith netted his first goal of the campaign on 27 August 2011, heading in Dean Cox's centre to give Orient a brief lead in a match they ultimately lost 2–1 at home to Carlisle United, meaning the club had opened the season with five straight defeats. He doubled his tally for the season a month later in a 1–1 draw with Colchester United, when he "tapped in" from close range in injury-time to help Orient earn only their second point from their opening seven league matches. He went on to score in comfortable victories over Rochdale and Bromley to end the year in positive fashion as Orient began to climb the League One standings. Smith scored in consecutive away wins in the opening months of 2012; firstly netting from close range in a 2–0 win against Preston North End, before denting AFC Bournemouth's play-off hopes with a back post header in a 2–1 Orient triumph. His seventh and final goal of the season came in a 2–0 home win over local rivals Brentford on 17 March 2012, collecting Ben Chorley's flick-on before finishing calmly to double Orient's advantage in the match. Smith was once again a regular first-team fixture throughout the season, making 43 appearances, with Orient finishing the season just one place above the relegation places. He remained at Orient for the 2012–13 season, in what turned out to be his fourth full season with the East Londoners. Although Smith made 44 appearances during the campaign, 18 of which were as a substitute, unlike in previous seasons where he nearly always featured as a starter. After scoring his first goal of the season in a convincing 4–1 home win over Yeovil Town on 18 September 2012, Smith waited seven months to find the scoresheet again, ending the goal drought by firing in Mathieu Baudry's knock-down in a 2–0 win against Bury on 1 April 2013. He ended the season by scoring his third goal of the campaign with a first-time lob over the advancing Dean Bouzanis in an eventual 1–1 draw with Oldham Athletic at Brisbane Road on 27 April 2013. It turned out to be his last game