Does Vaping Damage Your Walls? Let's Find Out! Vapoholic Is this nicotine seeping from my newly painted walls after a shower? How do I get this clean?? : r CleaningTips Inside the house or a heavy smoker. Everything was covered in nicotine at this house we did today. There was only so much cleaning could do, a full paint as well as replacing blinds is the only thing After 23 years of cigarette smoke, these walls were coated in sticky yellow residue. A deep clean with TSP, followed by a shellac based primer, brought them back to life like new.