Smoker? Don't smoke around your CPAP!

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Tue May 23, 2023 10:43 am

Like cleaning up after a crime scene--correction--EXACTLY!
Smoking around cpap machines should be a crime.

Rob K · Post by **Rob K** » Tue May 23, 2023 8:20 pm

That is so gross. No way I would have tried to bring that one back. Does the boiling or baking clean up silicone and plastic that is turning yellow? I have some old masks and cushions that aren't being made anymore. It's the only mask that has worked decently for me so I keep going back to it. They are still usable but they are not looking good.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Tue May 23, 2023 9:07 pm

Actually, disaster restoration is big business.
Mostly because average folks are too squeamish to DIY.

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed May 24, 2023 12:59 am

Rob K wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 8:20 pm
That is so gross. No way I would have tried to bring that one back. Does the boiling or baking clean up silicone and plastic that is turning yellow? I have some old masks and cushions that aren't being made anymore. It's the only mask that has worked decently for me so I keep going back to it. They are still usable but they are not looking good.

google this:

site:cpaptalk.com boiling stuff

Conrad · Post by **Conrad** » Wed May 24, 2023 6:19 am

palerider wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 9:34 am

Conrad wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 7:16 am
Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't imagine how the interior of that machine got so gross! The person had to be smoking while the machine was running in order for all that nastiness it get inside and perhaps blowing their smoke right into the intake.

I hope that you didn't pay too much for that thing?

Again, YUCK!
I didn't, no.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine how it got that way. The outside of it was a light brown, paper towel and a little alcohol, and the color change was unreal, and the paper towel was black.

I had to use gloves while handling it.

Can you imagine what this person's house and car must be like? I see cars all the time that have a light brown coating on the insides of their windows.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Fri May 26, 2023 5:59 pm

Conrad wrote: ↑
Wed May 24, 2023 6:19 am
. . .
Can you imagine what this person's house and car must be like? I see cars all the time that have a light brown coating on the insides of their windows.

Smoker's cars used to be always losing the headliner, as smoke destroyed the adhesive.
You could look over at the light, and it looked like a tent was falling down in the car.
If you could see through the haze, that is.

D.H. · Post by **D.H.** » Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:06 pm

Janknitz wrote: ↑
Mon May 22, 2023 1:24 pm
My parents were 3 pack a day smokers. My dad thankfully quit when I was 10 but my mom persisted much longer, claiming they would pry her last cigarette out of her cold, dead hand. I hated their smoking, and I was always sick. Turns out I have cough variant asthma, and one of my worst triggers--surprise--is cigarette smoke. My exposure to their second-hand smoke was like being a smoker myself--as a child.

All this to say my mom FINALLY quit when 1) The price of cigarettes went through the roof because of anti-smoking taxes, and 2) a handsome young doctor (she was always a doctor-worshipper, but rejected any suggestion smoking was making her only child sick) told her she could not be his patient if she kept smoking. As her sense of smell came back, she began to realize how bad her home reeked of cigarette smoke, and although she was always meticulous about cleaning, she found that her wooden furniture, including a beautiful lacquered screen she bought in Hong Kong and her walls, were weeping brown tobacco juice. So I'm not surprised at all at what you found in that machine. Wonder what that person's lungs look like?

You were the victim of child abuse!

Janknitz · Post by **Janknitz** » Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:29 pm

You were the victim of child abuse!

I would agree with that statement but for a few things:
I describe the time I grew up as "the time before child psychology". Not technically true, but it might as well have been. Everyone smoked in the 1960's. Every other commercial and print ads was for cigarettes or other tobacco products. Doctors even smoked in their offices while talking to patients! So it wasn't recognized as an unacceptable activity.

Cough variant asthma wasn't a "thing" back then. Everyone thought I "just took a long time getting over colds". Months! It wasn't considered abnormal. I've had a "smoker's hack" since I was a kid. And you should have heard my parents' coughs!!!

What did I worry about as a parent? That by not smoking or having exposure to smoking, my kids wouldn't understand how terrible it is to smoke, and might try it.

Fortunately, my kids are way smarter than that!

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:25 pm

Since childhood, my eyes have been highly sensitive to smoke, especially tobacco smoke.
I can detect the vile stuff even before I can smell it.

zonker · Post by **zonker** » Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:50 pm

Janknitz wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:29 pm

You were the victim of child abuse!
Everyone smoked in the 1960's.

it was practically a requirement.

growing up, we men folk had heroes in the movies and tv who smoked and drank heavily. thank god i got over that!

I'm not a Robot · Post by **I'm not a Robot** » Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:14 am

zonker wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:50 pm

Janknitz wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:29 pm

You were the victim of child abuse!
Everyone smoked in the 1960's.
it was practically a requirement.

growing up, we men folk had heroes in the movies and tv who smoked and drank heavily. thank god i got over that!

In the early 70s, a doctor recommended that my mother start smoking to calm her nerves!!!! She tried it, but didn't like it thankfully.

zonker · Post by **zonker** » Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:30 pm

I'm not a Robot wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:14 am

zonker wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:50 pm

Janknitz wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:29 pm

You were the victim of child abuse!
Everyone smoked in the 1960's.
it was practically a requirement.

growing up, we men folk had heroes in the movies and tv who smoked and drank heavily. thank god i got over that!
In the early 70s, a doctor recommended that my mother start smoking to calm her nerves!!!! She tried it, but didn't like it thankfully.

oh and that's the other thing-advertisements on tv showing actors portraying doctors saying how 3 out of 5 doctors recommend<insert cigarette brand>.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:12 pm

When the bullfrog joined the Air Force, the saying was "Smoke 'em if you got them."
This actually meant if you did not smoke, you got no breaks.
I wonder how many soldiers were "encouraged" to adopt a deadly habit this way.
My sweetie smoked when we met, but was finally able to quit before our fourth anniversary.

lazarus · Post by **lazarus** » Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:26 pm

My father quit smoking when I was a baby after I got a tiny burn from the ashes. He had no idea at the time how damaging the smoke was, or would have been.

Best injury I ever got.

Conrad · Post by **Conrad** » Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:12 am

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:12 pm
When the bullfrog joined the Air Force, the saying was "Smoke 'em if you got them."
This actually meant if you did not smoke, you got no breaks.
I wonder how many soldiers were "encouraged" to adopt a deadly habit this way.
My sweetie smoked when we met, but was finally able to quit before our fourth anniversary.

Perhaps this was how it was with the Air Force back in the day. I was in the Army for four years and while the saying 'smoke 'em if you got 'em' was used, us guys who didn't smoke got the same break time as the smokers. Us guys who didn't smoke, didn't have to 'police' up the cigarette butts at least, that was the smoker's job.

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