Living with a smoker

[versora]

True. He actually tried e-cigs, but he didn't like the fact that the refills are very expensive. At least I can get him to roll his own cigs.... Oh, what about smokeless ashtrays? Any thoughts on those?

[zirconmermaid]

Smokeless ashtrays might help, but not as much as you would need to not segregate your dolls. Or to allow me to ever do a swap with you. Or to keep you from getting secondhand smoke. How does rolling his own help?

[Lamia of the Dark]

Smokeless ashtrays might help, but not as much as you would need to not segregate your dolls. Or to allow me to ever do a swap with you. Or to keep you from getting secondhand smoke. How does rolling his own help?

Rolling his own only helps them not cost as much. The tobacco and rolling papers separately cost less than buying a regular pack/carton.

(I have a smoker in my house too, but my mother doesn't smoke in the house because of my brother's asthma, so I don't know what to tell you about that, versora. And even if she decided to smoke inside, she'd hit me with the "it's my house, I do what I want" line, so it's not really the same situation at all -_-; )

[Alopecia No Hime]

And honestly the e-cig isn't that effective...My dad has one and he still can't get enough of a nicotine 'hit' so he has to smoke a pack and an e-cig a day....Honestly and this is only if you wanna go drastic but...What helped get my grandmother and dad to quit smoking around me was after my mom and I had been shown a resin cast of a smoker's lung, all black and diseased at the allergist's office. Not a year later they quit...For my grandma it was for good for my dad...Eh not so much. ;; Dunno how effective it is now adays but back then DAMN.

[versora]

Well, hubby doesn't smoke as much as he used to. Like 2-4 cigs a day maybe. He smokes more when stressed or angry. Of course I've been around sidestream smoke ever since I was born. Both of my grandmas smoked and one grandpa. Dad never smoked . Mom tried it, hated it, so never had to deal with mom smoking. So I'm shocked my lungs aren't black by now. *nervous laugh*

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

There's been a poster campaign in the UK to try and get people to stop - one of which was supposed to be a cigarette with a cancerous growth coming out the end. Except it looked like someone had dropped a bit of partly cooked minced meat on the end. Mystifying - yes. Shocking - not so much.

Although maybe having a bit of semi raw minced meat dropped on the end of your ciggie, and putting out, each time you lit up would surprise you into cutting back...?

Alopecia No Hime - my dad's unshockable when it comes to smoking too. He's seen all the damage it does, he's lost a relative to emphysema and has the early stages of it himself (the last he was checked), plus chronic bronchitis. He has cut down a bit - he smokes a packet (of 20), maybe a bit less, a day now, instead of the up to 2 packs he used to. And my mum smokes almost as heavily. Fortunately, despite living with my grandmother and aunt (also both heavy smokers) them my parents til my early 20s my lungs are clear (apart from the occasional infection).

[versora]

Ah, I bet that was a rough time for you, shortncuddly. As for poster campaigns, the U.S. has those commercials that at the end have a cancer patient telling you this is what happens if you smoke for a very long time. That never works. My hubby buys a pack and it lasts a week. But then again he rolls his own and has a tobacco pipe as well. As for me I just wish he'd quit.

[MeltedCaramel]

ShortNCuddlyAm Now you have me picturing every time someone lit up a cigarette that a piece of raw meat would rain from the sky and splat on the end of their cigarette.

*Sighs* My mother smoked my entire life until she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The cancer part was a miracle (she'd had it for over a year but her body had encapsulated it and the doctor outright told her she'd "won the lottery"), but the only thing that forced her to quit was because she needed a complete hysterectomy, and the thing that keeps her off is knowing that I'm so, so proud of her and that I would be devastated if she ever picked up a cigarette again.

Those U.S. ads bothered her to watch when she was a smoker (she was about a pack and a half a day at the very least), but like any addiction, she would push the facts to the back of her mind.

As for smoke free...the only thing I can think of that could possibly help a LITTLE (trust me, I used to smell like an ash tray despite being fastidious about my hygeine, it literally would sneak into drawers, clothes, the walls, everything. I sprayed the wall with bleach (....centipede destroying, don't ask), and nicotine literally dripped down the walls in brown rivulets.)...try keeping your doll in-box, and investing in one of those air-tight zipper bags that you suck all of the air out of with your vacuum cleaner, and if at all possible, when you want to play with him, do so outside in the fresh air. None of that will eradicate the smell completely (trust me, the only thing that works is for the smoker to stop and wait a year for your house to rid itself of the skanky smell) but it will definitely help by keeping all of the nicotine infested air from getting to your dolls.

Sorry that this is a problem with no easy solution versora. I really feel for you.

[versora]

Thanks, MeltedCaramel. I was also wondering about air purifiers. Would those help? I hope so. But yeah, I would most likely have to keep my dolls in boxes and vacuum seal them. Sucks that I can't have nice things out.

[MeltedCaramel]

Air Purifiers are just like everything everyone else has mentioned in this post, sort of a "help" (they sure as shit can't hurt!! ) but not a true solution. Though I do believe vacuum-sealing your dolls in-box will go a LONG WAY to preserving them and keeping them from smelling like an ash tray. The best way to test this? After a few months of having the doll in the bag, open it and bring it to a friend who doesn't smoke, have them stand away from you (unfortunately you smell like smoke too, anyone who lives with a smoker does ) and....err, if they're not completely weirded out by it, ask them to give the doll a good whiff and see if they detect like CODE RED levels of nicotine or if they just get a small, tolerable whiff. Best case scenario is that the bag does its job and it stays completely smoke free.