We are moving in about 2 months which means I will have to un-plug the unit. This is why I purchased, from someone else, an ozone generator but it does'nt seem to work when there is smoke in the air. Cigarette smoke is a complicated air pollutant. Nicotine is not a gas and Ozone DOES NOT directly react with or break-down nicotine. Only the odor caused by nicotine reacts with Ozone.
Ozone attacks the odors created by smoke particles.
Ozones main benefit is to de-odorize a room after the smoke has cleared. Afterwards, the room does'nt smell like an ash tray. So, turning up an ozone generator to remove cigarette smoke from a room simply does not work. Using ozone to remove cigarette smoke odors from a room works. Filtration captures the particles.