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Getting Rid Of The Smell Of Smoke In Your Home After You've Quit

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-18-2015 09:01 AM

Many of us never smoked in our homes but for those who did, smoke particles settle everywhere. Anyplace air can travel, smoke travels. (it settles in the carpets, furniture, glass, every surface, everywhere.)

I happened to run into some videos by a person on youtube and some of them were about getting rid of the smoke smell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UST1elMcXbI

Evidently, you can wipe down all surfaces (preferably with a hepa filter running in the room you are working in) and afterwards us an ozone generator. You can most likely rent these items.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.