Not supposed to smell?

[Lara.B.]

I have been smoking Cig2o's for approximently 2mths. My son told me the other day that our house smelled like cigs
and i noticed my car also smelled.Why is this? I was under the impression of no smell,no smoke. Im not gonna stop using them, but user beware there is an odor that gets left behind! Any suggestions on perhaps a different brand that for sure doesnt leave odor?

 

[Lessifer]

most e-liquids do have some smell, mine usually smell fruity since they are fruit flavors. You may also have some residual odors from your smoking days, detailing the car and cleaning the carpet/curtains/furniture in your house should help get rid of those.

 

[AttyPops]

Smelled like cigs? Or smelled like cig2o?

Sure it smelled like cigs. In a couple of months, you'll be considering painting, washing carpets and upholstery, etc.

EDIT:
Crap. Lessifer beat me to it!

 

[TxVpLvr]

I stopped the stinkies 3 months ago and my car still smells a little like a cig. One day I will break down and get it detailed

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Hi and welcome to ECF. When I first began vaping within a very short period of time my home began smelling like analogs which I had never noticed before. It's a good thing cuz I knew my taste and smell buds were coming back. And of course like everyone else here I began a cleaning blitz...even painted the walls and refinished the floors. Car I never smoked in it. Try using no name windshield washer to clean the walls- tip from a friend who owns a fire restoration company.

 

[lilmrsyeti]

If you ever smoked in your house/car...that smell will be there until you clean it..even then I doubt you'll get all the smell out. My husband and I started vaping on the same day...we never touched a real cig from the moment we started Vaping...but I wanted to make sure we moved on from Real Cigs before I went through all the trouble of deep cleaning everything. After 2 weeks of only vaping...I set in on cleaning...OMGosh, was that a chore! I shampooed the carpets in the whole house...while that was drying, I took down every curtain in the house and washed/dried...washed every wall in the house with Pine-Sol...washed Mirrors...changed all bedding/covers...the works...then done the same to both our vehicles. Shampooed Carpets,cleaned everything. It was a job to get it all done...but so worth it!! I also removed all ashtrays and put them out in my husbands shop/Man Cave. He has friends/family who smoke and come over quite often to drink and beer and just hang out..they pretty much hang out in the Man Cave any ways..so they are there for them..if it wasn't for that, I would have tossed them!

 

[roonies]

I have found that whatever flavor you're vaping will leave some odor in the air. If you vape a tobacco flavor you're more likely to have that odor. I vape more of the fruit and minty flavors and my spouse isn't offended by my vaping in the house because of that. Also. like others have said, as your sense of smell returns you'll notice the lingering smell from when you smoked. It's a tough odor to get rid of,which is probably why so many like to repaint. Good job on the no smoking!!

 

[DVDBLAIR]

Hearing this makes me very happy that I never smoked in the house.

 

[Oktyabr]

Consider renting an "ozone generator". You can buy them too but a good commercial one is expensive and much more convenient to just rent. I've used one to totally remove odors from any room and even treated a vehicle interior because the sale was pending on the guy's wife who was VERY allergic to cigarette smoke and claimed she could smell it (even though I had had it professionally detailed). A couple of one hour treatments with a 400 cu.ft. commercial ozone generator and they bought the vehicle the very next day.

 

[Stephuhnator]

Yep, my sense of smell started coming back yesterday. Major cleaning time to get rid of the analog cig smoke smell. Vaping smells good to me.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

Thought the smell of cigarettes was gone myself.. When I moved back home from my last deployment at the end of January, UGH!! my stuff smelled from smoke!!! I know most of that smell is gone now but I'm catching a hint here and there in my vehicle.. Don't think I can take a hose to the insides.. LOL

 

[Myrany]

I never smoked in my car and bought it new. I have been noticing the last few days a faint smell of cig in it. I suspect it was transferred from my clothing to the car when I was a smoker. I will be giving it a through cleaning soon including carpets and upholstery.

 

[cyberwolf]

It does sound like you are smelling residual cigarette odor, but some e-liquids do smell quite a bit. You never really know which ones are going to, though. I vape about a dozen different tobacco flavors regularly and only one of them leaves an odor. THat odor sticks around for about an hour though.

The funny thing is that my wife never commented on the cigarette smell while I was a closet smoker, but she had to have noticed it. About 2 months after I started vaping and was using a sweet e-liquid she asked why the garage smelled like cotton candy.

 

[Litta'sGabby]

Great thread, because my hubby just came in and asked me "what's that smell?" and he was frowning! This juice that I'm vaping has a high tobacco "flavor" to it, and apparently it stinks! It doesn't smell like what I am vaping. He actually said "That's not Vanilla!" LOL! It almost smells like something burning (I did dry burn the wick last night). Could be that fact that I am not using a vv battery? Clearo appears fine, so I don't think it's that, I think it's just the juice. I also still have the analog smoke smell in my house!

 

[Red_Bird]

Bought a house from a non smoker that built it, in January. I quit cigs last July.....thank God this place has never had a cig smoked in it.

Our last house reeked....washed walls twice, steamed carpets, put up new curtains, painted it...it still smelled a bit like cigs when we sold it.

 

[weisner]

I never smoked in my house but I did have to sell my car. No washing that out of 10 year old cloth interior.

Switching to ecigs definately changed my life in many good ways.

 

[AttyPops]

Great thread, because my hubby just came in and asked me "what's that smell?" and he was frowning! This juice that I'm vaping has a high tobacco "flavor" to it, and apparently it stinks! It doesn't smell like what I am vaping. He actually said "That's not Vanilla!" LOL! It almost smells like something burning (I did dry burn the wick last night). Could be that fact that I am not using a vv battery? Clearo appears fine, so I don't think it's that, I think it's just the juice. I also still have the analog smoke smell in my house!

A) The dry burn stuff really stinks.
B) Juice still has a smell
C) My GF informed me that my DIY tobacco flavored juice (that tasted OK) smelled like cat pee. This was while vaping in her car. So......it doesn't taste and smell the same, for some strange reason. Even though taste is 95% smell.

 

[Oktyabr]

A) The dry burn stuff really stinks.
B) Juice still has a smell
C) My GF informed me that my DIY tobacco flavored juice (that tasted OK) smelled like cat pee. This was while vaping in her car. So......it doesn't taste and smell the same, for some strange reason. Even though taste is 95% smell.

LOL! I've been trying a few sample packs from some of the higher end juice vendors. One of the bottles, a "dark chocolate" mixed with a few subtle other flavors tastes absolutely GREAT! But the first time my wife and I were testing it our 16 year old son walks into the living room, instantly gets a nasty look on his face and exclaims "IT SMELLS LIKE CAT PEE IN HERE!"

We really hadn't been paying much attention to the exhale smell... we were busying swapping devices and comparing notes on the INHALE characteristics! I still like that juice but won't be re-ordering it, not while I'm vaping indoors anyway


SERIOUSLY THOUGH: I recommended this on a page back and I'll do it again because it deserves to be stressed. I've been dabbling in the second hand car market for several years and have been through more than 300 used cars, trucks, suvs and even RVs in that time. Nothing, and I repeat NOTHING will remove smells from a vehicle (or a room in your house) like renting a commercial grade ozone generator. The ozone actually breaks up the molecules that retain the scent you are smelling, destroying the smell on a chemical level. Left in a sealed space (vehicle or room) it will penetrate fabric all the way to the metal and get into every nook and cranny including AC/Heating ducts, glove boxes, *everywhere* to do it's job. By the way it has this effect on ALL complex organic molecules including mold and fungus... and like it or not spiders and other small insects will not survive a long term exposure either.

When using it in a house make sure your pets are no where near the room you are using it in. Keep doors and windows tightly closed and then be sure to air out the room thoroughly before beginning to live in it again. Symptoms of ozone "poisoning" are generally first displayed through a headache but fortunately it leaves no residue behind and simply venting the room or vehicle (use a window fan if you have to) will quickly return the area to safe levels.

This is a trick used by professionals world wide. It works and most will charge upwards of $100 to "treat" a single room or vehicle. It's as simple as plugging it in and leaving it alone for an hour or so.

Thank me later... and if you start a business restoring cars and rooms like this let me know and I'll give you an address you can mail the checks to

 

[AttyPops]

Wow. Funny and good advice all in the same post. I'd double-like if I could.

(That IS funny, BTW. lol. Must be a universal rant.)

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

A) The dry burn stuff really stinks.
B) Juice still has a smell
C) My GF informed me that my DIY tobacco flavored juice (that tasted OK) smelled like cat pee. This was while vaping in her car. So......it doesn't taste and smell the same, for some strange reason. Even though taste is 95% smell.

I always held back on revealing this but one of favorite custom made tobaccos- wife thinks it smells like "gas" if you know what I mean Needless to say I only vape it after she's left for work close to an open window. Trouble is it took much experimentation to come up with this special brew and friends love it.