“There are two general ways to decrease your exposure to wildfire smoke – breathe less or breathe cleaner air. Breathing cleaner air is more easily achieved – though the strategy for achieving this goal varies depending on where you are or how your home is constructed,” Mike Van Dyke, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healthline.