You're not the only one to be plagued by what you call second-hand smoke.
Here in Luxemburg, as everywhere in urban Europe, it is hopeless. And My!
The stench afterwards!
What I usually do after nights out is take a shower, change clothes, knowing
anyway what I wore in the smoky atmosphere is laundry bound, go out for a 10
mn walk in a green area with a focus on breathing, drink plain water, and/or
green tea, apply moisturizer onto my face, lips and throat, carefully brush
my teeth, do some stretching exercises and possibly tuck myself into bed
along with a half glass of skimmed milk. The whole process can take about 20
mn. Unless you're seeing someone regularly (hopefully a non-smoker), it may
not be a very diplomatic approach as applied to one-night-stands :)
Then after getting up the following day I have citrus fruit, kiwi (1 kiwi=8
times an orange vitamin C content), and sometimes straw-,rasp- and
blue-berries. Yum!
- Research shows water intake speeds up nicotin elimination by the body,
both externally (shower) and internally (drinking). Green tea is a vitamin
loader, as opposed to nicotin which kills most of them, especially
all-important vitamin C. Milk, in addition to its obvious high water
content, alleviates the body tissues made sore by nicotin, preventing
coughing. Also the tryptophane amino acid it contains induces sleep, which
furtherly works out a great deal of toxic substances off your system,
especially during the Slow Deep Sleep Phase.
- Plant-exhaled air at night is richer in oxygen (whereas it's richer in
nitrogen in the daytime, due to photosynthesis), which makes inhaling near
trees, bushes, grass and flowers at night all the healthier, oxygen beeing
more vital than nitrogen to us, since unlike plants our metabolisms cannot
synthesize it, whereas nitrogen is to be found in all the protein we eat
(and plants don't!*)
- Nicotin causing the skin to dry, moisturizing your face is a must to
preserve skin elasticity before premature wrinkles start to show.
- As for teeth, and body horn (nails and hair) I guess no explanation
needed!
- Last but not least, stretching/yoga postures impressively increase organic
vascularity, preventing nicotin to clutter up your cells in sensitive
recesses such as joints, glands and vital organs, sending it faster via
bloodcell carriage to the bladder, intestine, sweat glands, for final
elimination.
But smoking still infesting our Western World socialization patterns, it's
hardly avoided so there's basically not much you can do but cut pub and club
time, sadly enough. Even a smoke-removing device you may have installed at
your working place, as long as it's only a low-budget fan instead of a
costly proper air regenerator, won't really fill the bill. Stay tuned for
alternative policies?
*but carnivoras :)
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