How to Get Rid of Cigarette Breath Before Kissing in 4 Simple Steps

“Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.” 

If you are a smoker, then your non-smoker girlfriend or wife have probably told you that she dislikes the cigarette breath from your mouth while kissing.

She finds it disgusting and, at the same time, unhealthy, for her, to be exposed to cigarette smoke. She says that, it’s a well known fact that passive smoking is more dangerous than active smoking. 

Despite that, the cigarette smoke is also absorbed into your hair, skin, and clothes, what makes spending time with you disturbing for her.

This affects the romantic time with your honey.

And if you love her you may already wonder how can you get rid of cigarette breath.

If quitting smoking is too much for you, then you may follow the steps below to maximally remove the smell of cigarette smoke from your mouth and from your entire body.

Let’s take it step by step. 

4 steps to get rid of cigarette breath before kissing 

The worst way, to ruin a date is by kissing your partner with bad breath or with cigarette smoke smelling from your mouth.

If you have a date tonight where you want to kiss someone, make sure to eliminate the bad breath and cigarette breath from your mouth and from your physical appearance.

This might save your relationship or put the basis of a future lasting relationship.  

Follow the steps below.

1. Clean your mouth thoroughly

If you smoke 10 to 20 cigarettes per day then by the end of the day your breath smells pretty nasty.

Simply because you have a higher amount of bad smelling bacteria in your mouth.

So, the first step is to thoroughly clean your mouth, teeth, and tongue of the huge amount of cigarette smoke you absorbed during the day.

Follow these oral hygiene steps:

• Brush your teeth
• Scrape your tongue
• Floss
• Use an antibacterial mouthwash

2. Pay attention to your diet

The next step is to maintain the salivation flowing in your mouth.

Saliva washes away the bad smelling bacteria from the mouth and prevents dry mouth, which maintains it clean and fresh.

To maintain your mouth clean you should avoid consuming odorous foods and sugary drinks, which dries out your mouth.

Dehydration empowers cigarette breath and other bad smells coming from you mouth.  

Avoid consuming foods and drinks from the list below.

• coffee
• carbonated drinks
• alcohol
• onion
• garlic
• fish
• … etc

3. Drink more water

Drinking water is a good healthy habit that helps to wash away bad smelling bacteria that causes cigarette breath.

At the same time, drinking more water maintains a good level of hydration in your body and in your mouth.

Drinking water helps you produce more saliva. As a result, this is another good way get rid of cigarette breath by improving the cleanliness of your mouth. 

4. Get rid of smoke smell from your entire body

Cigarette breath is not the only thing that disturbs a non-smoker during the kiss. The cigarette smoke absorbed in your skin, hair, and clothes also disturbs your non-smoker relationship partner.

So, when you are getting ready for your date to make sure that your body and your clothes don’t release the cigarette smell.

When you come to the date ensure that you have a welcoming physical appearance you smell clean and fresh.

Your date will appreciate that and will be more inclined to a kiss.

To make sure that your physical appearance won’t release any cigarette smells you have to do the following things.

1. Take a shower – wash your hair with a shampoo and body with a soap. This eliminates up to 95% of the odor-causing bacteria from your body and improves the freshness of your body.
2. Wear clean and fresh clothing – never wear dirty clothing when you are getting ready to a date. Clothes absorb your sweat and the cigarette smoke, which smells not good. When you go to a date, make sure to wear clean, fresh and ironed clothes.

Over to you

Did you have the experience to kiss someone after smoking cigarettes? What was the reaction of your kissing partner?

Did she tell you that she dislikes cigarette breath or patiently waited until the kiss is over?

Please share with me whatever experience you’ve been through.