How To Reduce Cigarette Smoke In Your Room

Smoke is known as one of the most hazardous elements in the air that human can breathe. A little smoke won’t kill you, but if you are caught in a fire smoke can kill you instantly or secondary. The most popular character of the recently popular TV show “This is Us” died of inhaling too much smoke. 

There is a small chance that you can inhale that amounts of smoke from a cigarette, but still, you should be careful in closed rooms because the air can be filled with smoke. If you are a smoker, then you are not concerned about second-hand smoking, but everyone else who is caught in a room full of cigarette smoke is actually second-hand smoker and are put in the same basket as the actual smoker. Because of that, it is essential to remove cigarette smoke from the room.

How to Remove Cigarette Smoke from the Room

There are many ways to remove cigarette smoke from the room; some of them are requiring some action while others can remove smoke from the room instantly.

Open The Windows

If there is a smoker in the room the best way to get smoke out of the room is to open windows and make the wind take all the dirty smoke out. In winter that is not really economical because your warm home will also get colder by constantly opening windows to let the smoke go out. 

Use an Air Purifier

An air purifier is a great way to remove smoke as well as smoke smell. With a charcoal filter, an air purifier can remove smoke smell at a rapid speed. It is highly essential to replace filters as soon as they are dirty because only that way you can have 100% efficiency at fighting the smoke. With air purifier, you don’t need to open windows, and in winter time you can keep your home warm and free from smoke. Many air purifiers on the market will do a great job at removing smoke from the air. Most of the air purifiers use charcoal based air filters, and that is one of the best methods to remove bad smells as well as smoke from the air.

Charcoal filters need to be replaced as soon as possible once you notice that the smoke in the room is not filtered. Usually, air purifier manufacturers claim that air filters need to be replaced every 6 months or one year. Some of the models also have filter replacement indicators. But if you are using an air purifier to filter smoke in a room that is repeatedly filled with smoke from cigarettes, then you will need to change air filters more often for the best results. The good news is that charcoal filters are not expensive and you can buy them in bulk.

Getting Rid of the Smell

The best way to remove smoke from home is to remove its source. By that, I don’t mean to kick the smoker from your home (but that would be actually the best thing you could do), but after he is done with smoking, you should empty an ashtray, take out the garbage and take down curtains. Now that sounds a lot of things to do, and it is, but if you really want to keep smoke out you should do that.

Burn Incense and Light Candles

To bring a better smell in your house, you can occasionally burn incense or light candles. It is known that these methods can help in eliminating not only the smell but also smoke. Burning incense will remove smoke, but at the same time spread a mild smell that will work calmly and even reduce the stress of the people in the room. And by reducing stress may be a smoker won’t need to smoke that much.

Use an Odor Eliminating Spray

You can buy in any regular store odor eliminating spray. These sprays work wonders, and the smoke smell will be removed from the room in a matter of a second. But there are some concerns that some of this odor eliminating sprays have god knows what chemicals inside of it. The best way would be if you can find 100% BIO odor eliminating spray. That way at least you know that you are spraying with something found in nature and not some chemicals mixed in a lab.

Set Out a Bowl of White Vinegar

Vinegar is a real odor remover, with vinegar you can remove smoke instantly just like in the previously mentioned method where we use odor removing spray. You can put vinegar on a towel and then wave it through a room. Vinegar will absorb all smoke and smells, and the room will be clean in no time.

Deep Clean Everything in the Room

This method is not recommended if there is a smoker who smokes in the house every day. Because what’s the point to clean everything if the smoker will smoke right after that and make everything dirty again. But if the smoker is gone or he quit the best way to remove smoke smell is to clean everything. You should clean walls, floor, wash everything that has smoke smell. I know it is a huge job but unfortunately only this way you can be sure that smoke smell is gone for good.

Does Cigarette Smoke Harm your Health?

Smoking is no longer a trend. Majority of people just stop smoking, not only because it is hazardous and linked to cancer, but the problem is that even second-hand smoking is dangerous. It is one thing to poison yourself, but if you are living with a loved one, then you are poisoning them too. Governments all over the world are forbidding smoking in, and the main reason is the second-hand smoking. To have a full perception of how dangerous smoking is you can think about all the money the government can make by selling cigarettes.

Most countries have enormous taxes on cigarettes, but still, governments fight against smoking with advertising and educating people about the dangers of smoking, which means that health care is costing much more in the end. And in other words that means people are really getting sick sooner or later from smoking. Government law about cigarettes and smoking is the primary proves that secondhand smoke affects your health.

Summary

The best thing you can do for your home is to use one of the methods to remove cigarette smoke from your home mentioned above. The best method is to remove smoke or make him quit smoking. But I know that is a hard thing to do. But now you know some tricks on how to remove smoke from home and still have somehow clean fresh air in the home.