How To Get Rid Of The Lingering Cigarette Smell
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How To Get Rid Of The Lingering Cigarette Smell
Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: How can I get rid of the lingering cigarette smell?
How can I get rid of the lingering cigarette smell?
When your sense of smell improves in two to four weeks, you may need to start doing a sniff test around your house. You may need to dry clean your clothes in the closet. You may need to vacuum up and take your mattress outside for a day, if you have been smoking in your bedroom. There is also the option of odor eradication from the air and from surfaces that are soft not easy to just wash off. One way is using a product, made in France, where you put an aromatherapy cleaner inside a glass bottle. You light this wick and it actually disseminates the vapor from this aroma into the area. It works quite well in car upholstery, in carpets and furniture. Another way would be putting vinegar in an area where in fact where you might have smoked frequently in the area. You might take a bowl of vinegar, cut saran wrap over the top in little holes and let the vinegar, which has its own pungent smell, eradicate the cigarette smell.
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These are all great tips. Another way to completely get rid of the odor is to use an ozone generator-these are used to "shock" treat an area that has cigarette smoke smell, or any other odor you need to get rid of. Hilton, Marriott, Best Western, etc. all of these hotel chains use them to convert smoking rooms to non-smoking in just a few hours. The ozone is a gas so you shouldn't be in the same room while you're treating the room. This process takes only a few hours and then the odor is gone-not covered up, but destroyed because ozone gas gets rid of the odor molecules in the air, ceiling, clothing, fabric, walls, etc. A very reputable company is The Ozone Experts based out of Upstate NY, and you can find their products here http://www.ozoneexperts.com/