Dealing with a smokey home....

[Reynolds 101]

Everyone in my house besides me smokes, and its awful. The smell is in my hair and clothes even if I take a shower, and leave shortly after. It makes me sick sometimes if I get a really big whiff of it.

It keeps me from wanting company over because most of my friends live in smoke free homes, and if it bothers me Im sure it will bother them. I clean as much as possible but it will never go away and I cant get anyone to quit or smoke outside. If I spray everything with febreeze or some time of air freshner the smoke overpowers it and only lasts a short time.

What can I do?

[Slapp Addict]

Originally Posted by Reynolds 101

What can I do?

Is moving out an option?

I'm a non-smoker also and the majority of the people around me smoke. I'm just use to it. Maybe you will be too sooner or later?

[FL Knifemaker]

There would be no choice, I would move. Even if it meant sleeping in a cardboard box in an alley

[warwick.hoy]

Do you rent? Is your name primary on the lease? If so...your house, your rules. If not then you may have little say so and should think about new digs.

Coming from a smoker; in the interest of keeping my habit to a minimum and not living in a stinky house, I take it outside every time.

Cigarette smoke is also not too good for your gear

[Reynolds 101]

Well Im 16 so moving out is not an option. And yes it does affect my gear but its not that big of a deal to me. My bass doesnt smell like it, but my 8x10 grill cloth is starting to smell like smoke. Thats not really a big issue though because my band plays smoke heavy detroit bars anyways....

Idk I just wish they would take me seriously and give a little effort into quitting instead of going, "uh huh" when I tell them they should quit.

[ryco]

Build yourself a nice little cottage out back




When I use to smoke I always smoked outside - even at gigs. It's courteous.

[Slapp Addict]

The people who smoke around me usually go over to a window with a fan in it that blows the smoke out. Tell them to do the same, it's not that difficult. Just buy a little box fan and put it in a kitchen window w/ a screen on it.

[Ericman197]

When we bought our house in Long Island it was previously occupied by smokers. Two things we did really seemed to help. First we steam cleaned all the carpets. If you don't own a carpet cleaner, you can rent one at a lot of supermarkets. Do the whole house twice over, and also consider buying a portable steam cleaner for drapes, couches, and other things. Then we got a big hepa filter machine to constantly keep the air clean.

If you keep all the fabrics in the house meticulously clean at least once every couple of weeks, and keep the air filtered to the max, you should notice a difference. Of course it might get pretty expensive to constantly rent a rug cleaner, and both the cleaner and the hepa filter are pretty expensive. But those are the only things I know of that are effective, other than getting them to cut back on smoking inside.

[nsmar4211]

Beg them to smoke outside and offer to repaint the yellowing inside of the ceiling?

[ROON]

My friend recently moved out of his house into a little studio room in a big housing lodge block. I stayed over there the night a few weeks ago, we hung out at his friends place (room) for a while then went back to his and played Xbox, then called it a night. They were smoking the whole time and because the rooms are small, regardless of whether you have the windows open or not you're gonna be hot boxing it.

I swear the smoke smell didn't come off me, my clothes or out of my hair for a good 3 days, even with the aid of showering, washing my hair and deodorant. Gross!

[::::BASSIST::::]

Dude, you have my sympathy. I absolutely hate that smell and do everything I can to avoid it. If I'm auditioning for a new band and see one of the members smokes, I know I'm out.

My dad smokes and I refuse to bring my 3 year old son over to visit him because its dangerous. I've offered numerous times for him to come over to my place but he never does. Result he's seen my son my 6 times since his birth. Thats a shame.

Anyway, power to you man. You might want to invest in a gas mask or something.

[XtreO]

How about just getting used to it? WHen you're out people will always smoke. Why not light up a sig now and then, and just get, to an extent, used to it? Smoking isn't all that bad (apart from practically poisoning your lungs).

[Reynolds 101]

Originally Posted by XtreO

How about just getting used to it? WHen you're out people will always smoke. Why not light up a sig now and then, and just get, to an extent, used to it? Smoking isn't all that bad (apart from practically poisoning your lungs).

Are you kidding? Smoking is bad for you, and I've been trying to "get used to it" for 16 years.

[Barfly]

Originally Posted by XtreO

How about just getting used to it? WHen you're out people will always smoke. Why not light up a sig now and then, and just get, to an extent, used to it? Smoking isn't all that bad (apart from practically poisoning your lungs).

LOL. Sage advice, fella.

[EmmSee]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

There would be no choice, I would move. Even if it meant sleeping in a cardboard box in an alley

I agree.

but since he's 16, just save up and move (college or not) when you graduate HS...

save yourself & your possessions, don't "get used to it"

[TallLankyBastyd]

Start masturbating in their presence. Keep at it despite their pleas that you please stop or you'll get hairy palms...

...after a while see if you all can't work out some sort of compromise.

Just an idea...

[bigfatbass]

Spit on their plates at the dinner table. They smoke in your face, feel free to loogie in their food. Endlessly post pictures of black, rotting, lungs on every surface in the house.

If they care so little about the welfare of a child as to endlessly huff butts in their presence, perhaps they will come around when pictures of their charred innards are plastered all over the house accompanied by stacks of every non-smoking piece of literature you can lay your hands on.

Another good one, put up a tote board and put a check next to whoever's name every time you see them open a fresh pack. At the end of a month total it up at $7+ each and show them how much money they've wasted killing themselves AND YOU.

The vast majority of smokers suck azz. Thoughtless, littering, polluting, ****heads.

[Pilgrim]

If people smoke in the house, it gets into EVERYTHING. Period. Smoke penetrates very effectively - as anyone who has ever had a house fire knows. And you can bet that everyone you meet knows you live in a smoking home, because it's going to be on your clothes as well.

As long as you're in that house and people smoke in it, cleaning won't do any good to defeat the odor - it will be omnipresent. You're young enough that chances are it won't affect your health long-term, but it's not helping.

If it bothers you a great deal, you'll have to move out when you're 18.

[Reynolds 101]

Yeah I always try to keep away from home to breathe fresh air. Sometimes if Im in the same car with one of my family members that smokes, I almost vomit. Even with all the windows down. Playing shows at dirty ass detroit bars makes me feel better because Im not the only one that smells like smoke lol.

I also keep a bottle of cologne on the table by the front door to spray on before I leave so its not as bad. This is so irritating.

[crazyguy832]

If you smoke in the house, there should be a dedicated room.

Also, imho, cigars only inside a house... and, once again, in a dedicated room. Preferably with big plush chairs and tons of books.

^_^

That much cigarette smoke is dangerous. Just... horrible. Tell em to take it outside.