The smoke has a very recognizable peculiar smell. The moment you light a cigarette or a kretek, your furniture, clothes and hair become imbued with its smell. If you live with your parents and they are anti-smoking, it is particularly important to be able to hide any "olfactory" traces. If you take the right preventative measures, you can prevent your parents from finding out that you smoke.
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Confining the Smell
Step 1. Find a private place to smoke
If possible, it better be outdoors. A garage area or on the porch are perfect solutions. If you can't go outside, then you can use the bathroom.
Know that the bedroom is a bad idea if you are trying to hide the fact that you smoke. There are many fabrics that get soaked with the smell of cigarettes and it will be difficult to get rid of it
Step 2. Schedule times to smoke
If you disappear every hour for a cigarette, your parents will get suspicious; So try to organize yourself wisely and find a plausible excuse to get away.
- Before the shower.
- Going to the bathroom after a meal.
- While you phone your partner in the evening.
Step 3. Lock all the slots in the door
Grab a towel and tuck it into the spaces around the door. If you use freshly laundered, freshly laundered fabrics, the air passing through them can release a better scent. If you are outdoors or smoking in the garage, don't worry about this detail.
Step 4. Go to the window
If you have to smoke indoors, then breathe the smoke out through an open window. This allows you not only to force out most of the stench, but also to ventilate the room.
Step 5. Use a fan
A ventilation system is essential to hide the smell of cigarette smoke. Place a portable fan near the window to direct the airflow outside and disperse the thick, stinking cloud of smoke.
Go to a room where there is already a fan. Moving around the house with the appliance in hand can create some suspicion
Part 2 of 3: Hiding the Smell
Step 1. Protect your clothes
Wear a light jacket, sweater, or long-sleeved shirt to keep your clothes from becoming soaked in smoke. Leave these "protections" in the room where you usually smoke.
Step 2. Light a herb stick
You can use an incense or a stick of dried fragrant herbs that release a very intense aroma. This way you mask the cigarette smell and, at the same time, the clouds of smoke coming out of the room will be less suspicious.
Step 3. Use cologne or a body or room deodorant spray
Spray these products before and after smoking. That way you don't use too much and prevent your parents from getting suspicious, so they won't wonder why you smell like you bathed in deodorant.
Step 4. Try a product that neutralizes odors
Some air fresheners are able to absorb and not hide the molecules that cause odors. Usually they are used for the interior of the car so that it smells "like new". Read and strictly follow the instructions on the package and use it only shortly before leaving the room.
Part 3 of 3: Eliminate Odors on Your Person
Step 1. Freshen your breath
Brush your teeth immediately after the cigarette. If you've been smoking outdoors and need to talk to your parents before you can get to the bathroom, then chew gum. You can also mask the smell by eating something with a strong flavor, such as onion or garlic. Obviously, if you choose this solution, you will smell of garlic and onion - but it will always be better than smoke.
Step 2. Wash your hands
Use a soap with a strong scent and wash your hands thoroughly. If that's not enough, you can also use a moisturizer or scented sanitizer. You can hide the smell on your hands by eating an orange because, by peeling it, your fingers will soak in its essential oils.
Step 3. Try denatured alcohol
You can clean up any tarry residue by rubbing your hands with this product. Also consider isopropyl alcohol, which is safe on the skin. However, remember that these products dry out the skin, so it's best to have a scented moisturizer available as well.
Step 4. Wash your hair
Hair absorbs the smell of cigarettes because it is porous. The stench of smoke lasts for a long time and the only way to get rid of it is to take a shower and use a good shampoo. A coconut cleanser and scented hair products will help you in your quest.
Advice
- Switch to e-cigarettes. This way you will completely avoid the smell of tobacco. You'll still get your nicotine fix, but without releasing odors into the air.
- Non-smokers have a keener sense of smell than smokers. Even if you think you've gotten rid of the stench of smoke, people may still feel it on your person. If you can feel it first, non-smokers will feel it for sure.
- The only sure way to get rid of the smoke smell completely is to quit smoking. The methods described in this tutorial only work if practiced consistently.
Warnings
- Menthol cigarettes stink just as much as regular ones.
- Smoking is seriously harmful to health.
