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My room smells like cigarettes!
Regicid3
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and so do I!
I don't smoke, nobody smokes in my room. My Dad however is a smoker and he smokes a lot. I try so hard to keep the smell of smoke out of my room and my clothes. I avoid walking in the living room, I keep my door shut (like that matters) and constantly spray air fresheners. WHAT MORE CAN I DO? I'm sick of smelling like cigarettes when I haven't ever smoked one.
I don't smoke, nobody smokes in my room. My Dad however is a smoker and he smokes a lot. I try so hard to keep the smell of smoke out of my room and my clothes. I avoid walking in the living room, I keep my door shut (like that matters) and constantly spray air fresheners. WHAT MORE CAN I DO? I'm sick of smelling like cigarettes when I haven't ever smoked one.
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1) Get your dad to smoke outside/some other place the smoke won't reach you.
2) Leave a lot of windows open.
3) Move out.
4) Convince him to stop smoking.
Per this website:
"Of course, we’ve all heard of Febreze, and wonder why it works. Well, Febreze uses a chemical compound called cyclodextrin that has been used in household and custodial cleaning products for quite some time. The sugar-like substance doesn’t necessarily “clean†the odors out, but acts as an absorbent like baking soda or charcoal, to help soak the odor out. Yes, Febreze does work, but let’s be honest with ourselves. Spraying everything down with Febreze isn’t the answer to years and years of built up cigarette tars and resins. There is one thing I would suggest in an odor removal product and that is activated charcoal. Charcoal is used not only to filter water and other things, but is also used to soak up odors, just like baking soda. If you see charcoal in an odor removing product, it’s likely to succeed at removing odors."
With the possible exception of the anti-microbial kind, it doesn't. Per Wikipedia, the "active ingredient" in Febreze (cyclodextrin) simply traps hydrophobic molecules (those that don't like water). It doesn't do much of anything to bacteria.
If you really wanted to get rid of the odors and had the money to spend you could use a commercial ozone generator. Caution should be taken when using it, because ozone is some toxic shit in the quantities necessary to kill microorganisms and deodorize an area. Ozone works really well and can eliminate virtually any odor, even those produced by a rotting corpse (just as an example).
Anywho... What kind of windows do you have in your room? Sometimes, just keeping the blinds open works. And haveing a window open does far more than any currently available chemicals would for smoke. Activated charcoal might help a little, but they don't last forever, and you need good airflow for them to do anything.
In my room, I've actully compleatly blocked the vents, and I have a little weather-proofing-thingy on my door. When the temp outside is above 40 degrees, I have my window open. Below 40 (i like it cold), my big ass windows (79" x 48" south facing and 35" x 27"west facing) make a green house effect, keeping it around 62 druring the day. Even when the windows are open, I've never seen the temp go below 55 degrees.
And It is the cleanest and freshest smelling room, and the brightest.
Just to make this perfectly clear: There are no bacteria involved here whatsoever, cigarrettes smell because of the compunds that are produced during the slow burning of tobacco.
Anyway. The best would probably be to man up and ask daddy to stop smoking in the house. Fucking himself up is his choice but force the rest of the family to smoke passively is not ok. If that is not an option I'd say that the overpressure-solution is pretty good. It's also quite effective to just block whatever gaps in the door you can find so that no smoke goes into your room. I did this for a couple of months with an old blanket that reeked afterwards but I did not, and a blanket is washable.
So . . .
Draft Excluder
Box fan in window, sucking air in.
Glade Neutralizer
Windows Open
If I were to put a Draft Excluder on my closet door, what could/should I spray on my clothes occasionally to keep them smelling fresh?
What would a hardy plant do, mimizu?
Keep your door shut all the time with a draft excluder.
Shouldn't have to worry about the clothes in your closet.
It's that or spraying shit in the air all the time and that's probably almost as bad as the second-hand smoke.
I'll be able to tell you in the next few days, assuming I can find one of these at a store.
Oh I guess that depends on the kind you get. My bad, didn't fully realize what you were saying.
Unless there's a huge gap under your door it's probably not 100% necessary. With a box fan in the window pushing air in there's gonna be air going out under your door, not in. When you think about it that way you probably don't need one at all.