How to Eliminate Cigarette Odor
Few odors are more odious, especially to non- and reformed smokers, than lingering cigarette smoke. Whether your goal is to get healthy or to get a loved one off your back, it's easy to keep your home from smelling like the local roadhouse. Just throw open your windows and try out one or more of these easy tricks.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Ashtrays
- Light Bulb
- Rag Or Dish Towel
- Vacuum
- Baking Soda
- Fabric-softener Sheets
- Perfume Or Cologne
- Cat Litter
- Several Small Bowls
- Zippered Plastic Bag
- Vinegar, pine-scented cleaner or activated charcoal
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Set small bowls of vinegar, pine-scented cleaner or activated charcoal around the room. If your home has young children or pets, place the bowls well out of reach. Close off the room overnight.
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Spritz your favorite perfume or cologne on a cold light bulb. When the light is turned on, the warmed scent will fill the room.
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Place small items (such as gloves, a wool hat or a small pillow) in a zippered plastic bag with a couple of fabric-softener sheets. Leave overnight.
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Fill ashtrays with cat litter to extinguish cigarettes and capture the odor.
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Sprinkle baking soda liberally on carpets, rugs and upholstery around the room. Let it sit overnight. Vacuum.
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Soak a rag or a dish towel in vinegar, wring out the excess and wave it around the room for a minute or two.
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Tips & Warnings
Launder washable items, including curtains, pillows and slipcovers, for best odor removal.
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Comments
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Most of these are simply temporary cover ups. If the smoker is still smoking, they are even more temporary. However, if you are expecting smoke sensitive company, doing any or all of the afore mentioned tricks will be helpful. Washing walls and ceilings with pine cleaners and vinegar is better than setting bowls out. The tip of using cat litter; what are the effects of burning or heating the sented kind? What about the ones with crystals? Any time you sprinkle stuff on your carpet, it sinks into it and does not always vacuum out. Baking soda is about the least bothersome.
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alexjon2010
Nov 08, 2010
After being a smoker for 20+ years, now a non smoker (1 month yes!). I have a house that has reflects my addition. What to do I thought? So I took the advice of lots and had appreciate all who commented here, especially Jerry1.I tried Room Shocker, an expensive "real" odor remover. It did what it claimed to do...remove the cigarette smell from my house completely! I was so pleased that I feel the need to tell others. I truly was amazed and no longer have to be reminded of what I used to do. So try it, you won't be disappointed since they have a money back guarntee(to boot)! It's called Room Shocker and you can find it off the biocidesystems website. Hope I have helped someone else just as the posting here did for me. -
Jerry1
Dec 11, 2008
My brother-in-law is the poster boy for chain-smoker. All the remedies above work well, but don't remove the smoke odor permanently. We have tried everything over the years. There is however this a new product on the market ( Room Shocker )that eliminates the smoke odor at the source and removes the harmful pathogens left behind by the smoke. It will go deep into carpet and furniture and even wood. It not only gets rid of the smell, but it completely detoxifies the entire room. It's really easy use safer people and pets. It's safer than the ozone machines and better for the environment. And best of all, it's not expensive and it comes with a money back guarantee.
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Jerry1
Dec 11, 2008
My brother-in-law is the poster boy for chain-smoker. All the remedies above work well, but don't remove the smoke odor permanently. We have tried everything over the years. There is however this a new product on the market ( Room Shocker )that eliminates the smoke odor at the source and removes the harmful pathogens left behind by the smoke. It will go deep into carpet and furniture and even wood. It not only gets rid of the smell, but it completely detoxifies the entire room. It's really easy use safer people and pets. It's safer than the ozone machines and better for the environment. And best of all, it's not expensive and it comes with a money back guarantee.
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muffyjunes
Aug 17, 2008
I am used to living in a small apartment, and a wonderful trick for emergencies is to fry a skillet full of onions, peppers and garlic an hour or so before visitors arrive. The delicious aroma overrides the tobacco smell. Worked for me many times.
