Can Cigarette Smoke Damage BPAP/Hurt Therapy?

[Wulfman]

I've learned that different relationships have different requirements when it comes to love. The kind of relationship you are talking about is the two-way kind. You can love them all you want but if they don't love 'ya back, you will just set yourself up for unbearable pain. Having said that, if she really loves you as much as you love her, she will quit smoking. If she doesn't, you best save yourself time and pain (and maybe money too) and start looking for another ... and there are lots available, you just have to be patient in your search (just like fishing ).

Catch and release?

Riv,

The smoke (from outside) won't affect your machine. But, only you will know over time whether she's a "keeper" or whether you'll want to throw her back and try for another (staying with the "fish" analogy). Whether a person smokes or not shouldn't be THE measure of their acceptability. Give it some time and you'll know for sure.


Den

[BlackSpinner]

like you i quit a while ago--your making too much of the smoke---how did the caveman ever make it--he had no themostat--just a smoke filled room---live and love her smoke and all---after all ,,,you stunk once

They didn't, they died by 40, so did most people during medieval and later times. The reason they set retirement at 65 a hundred years ago is because the average person (especially the workers) didn't live that long - they didn't have to pay many pensions.

You are basically telling him to make a suicide pact.

[Really]

I did email a few members (here and on a similar forum where another 44 people totally ignored my request for knowledge) and I got back some very informative answers so don't worry about it. Don't lose any sleep over it LOL, I was helped and I thank those knowledgeable people who helped me.

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I'm not a smoker. I quit cigarettes cold turkey in April 08 before I started Apnea treatment (got my machine in June 08)..............Problem is I have a new girlfriend. I care for this woman a great deal, I could even say I love her and want to marry her.

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Can this smell get into my BPAP? Get into my lungs when I inhale the room air through my mask? Mess up the workings and the sensors of my machine?

Is there a way to get the smell of cigarettes out of an apartment or bedroom?

[Pugsy]

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OMG I had to go read. What an attitude.

I also saw exact same smoking smell questions and comments today showing on the apneasupport.org board under a different ID name. He has had 2 responses since posting late last night.

[Muffy]

I'm not a smoker.

Well, I hope that during a moment of weakness, you have one more cigarette "for the road", you accidently catch your face on fire, and when the firemen come along, they try to put the fire out with their axes.

Have a Muffy Day!

Muffy

[Muffy]

I did email a few members (here and on a similar forum where another 44 people totally ignored my request for knowledge) and I got back some very informative answers so don't worry about it. Don't lose any sleep over it LOL, I was helped and I thank those knowledgeable people who helped me.

viewtopic/t42522/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39 ... 44#p345544

He's back...

I'm not a smoker. I quit cigarettes cold turkey in April 08 before I started Apnea treatment (got my machine in June 08)..............Problem is I have a new girlfriend. I care for this woman a great deal, I could even say I love her and want to marry her.

....
Can this smell get into my BPAP? Get into my lungs when I inhale the room air through my mask? Mess up the workings and the sensors of my machine?

Is there a way to get the smell of cigarettes out of an apartment or bedroom?

[Muffy]

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He's back...

OMG I had to go read. What an attitude.

I also saw exact same smoking smell questions and comments today showing on the apneasupport.org board under a different ID name. He has had 2 responses since posting late last night.

[Muffy]

I'm not a smoker.

Well, I hope that during a moment of weakness, you have one more cigarette "for the road", you accidently catch your face on fire, and when the firemen come along, they try to put the fire out with their axes.

Have a Muffy Day!

Muffy

[Muffy]

I'll bet you don't know how forum boards work, do you?

Muffy

[sleepie]

they might have died by 40----but i doubt they died of smoke------more like no medicine--and a array of infections,broken bones,and the such,how long would we last without medicine?????----lucky to get to forty,,try hunting for your food, i'm sure some smart carefull ones would have collected social security,,if only for a few years

[BlackSpinner]

they might have died by 40----but i doubt they died of smoke

Right they didn't live long enough for it to affect them majorly - we do live longer then 40.
However if you don't plan to live that long go ahead and smoke.

[preemiern]

Actually...the residual smell you smell after she comes in from smoking is now termed "third hand smoke" and supposedly it is dangerous as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/healt ... smoke.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 105037.htm

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... /123/1/e74

these are just a few articles and links. You can google "third hand smoke" for more info.

[TXLadybug]

Are you serious??????

[sleepie]

yep third hand smoke the new killer-----what about smoke breath???----forth hand killer????----some people have taken this way too far----we forget how wonderful it was to discover fire and smoke......

[Muffy]

Ol' riv/BPLink/Buck222 keeps deleting posts he don't like. Wonder why.







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Muffy