Before we get started, here are a few chemicals that you can find in cigarettes: nicotine, ammonia , cadmium , formaldehyde , benzene ,benzo[a]pyrene , lead, and nitrosamines. These chemicals, combined and solo, have numerous health complications ranging from sore throat to nausea to cancer. Apart from these health issues, the odour has to be the next most difficult thing to deal with. So let's get to it with these diy methods.
Homemade Deodorizer:
1. Fill a clean spray bottle with 2 cups of warm water.
2. Add 1 Tablespoon of baking soda to the water. OR:
3. 1 cup of plain white vinegar
Shake to mix completely. Use the spray on washable surfaces to stop odors fast.
Removing Tar & Nicotine:
Tar and nicotine gets stuck on walls, doors and cupboards. Ammonia will cut right through it. Use non-sudsy, plain ammonia to wipe down your walls and cupboards. Ammonia does a great job for cleaning and deodorizing and is inexpensive too. Ammonia will burn like heck if it gets in your eyes so make sure you wear eye protection since you'll be working above your head with your arms extended. Ammonia has a very strong odor, so open the windows to get plenty of air in the room
when cleaning.
Ammonia Cleaner Recipe
1 cup of ammonia(can be gotten at paint manufacturing plants or ask those selling paints and those who manufacture fertiliser i.e farmers hardware store.
If you are in Abuja, you can check where fumigation stuff are sold in area 3)
1 gallon of lukewarm water.
Removing Cigarette Odour from the Car:
Fresh air will work wonders.
You can shampoo the floor mats, carpet and upholstery. Use Windex and clean the inside windows and use the appropriate cleaning solution to clean the dash board and seats. Deodorize the car with a deodorizing spray such as the recipe I
provided above.
Removing cigarette odour from clothes
According to Readers Digest,
Fill bath or a bucket with warm water ,then add 2 cups of vinegar then hang affected clothes above so that the steam can penetrate the fabric. Close doors and windows for maximum effect.
All these methods might require some form of repetition depending on how severe the stains or odours are.
Best to keep a well aerated space for rapids effect.
