According to a chart that I recently saw online of pain percentages for various suicide methods, there is an 18% (out of 100% on a pain scale) estimate for carbon monoxide poisoning and a 71% success rate - vis a vis a 6% success rate and a 71% on the pain scale for slit wrists. read more
It does not matter if there is air in the enclosed space to start with, as given a choice between carbon monoxide and oxygen, the protein haemoglobin in the blood will always latch on to carbon monoxide and ignore the life-giving oxygen. read more