Glad DH and I quit that smelly dirty habit. Feel so much better. When I smell smoke it gags me and really stinks. Glad I don't smell like this anymore. Vinger usually will remove the smoke smell.

I don't know if it will work, but using charcoal briquettes in a dish to be confined in a small space, like a plastic container, and change the charcoal everyday for a week, might work.

I have used it in a refrigerator that has gone stale and it works.

Something in the charcoal filters the smell out.
Let me know if you try it and if it works.
Carol from NC

Boy, I would never have posted about this if I'd know it would stir up so much controversy. The only thing I have against smokers other than the smell, is the health issue. My mom died from emphysema at 63. She began smoking at 12 and literally tried everything to quit and could not. On the other hand, my MIL smoked til she was 79, quit then died at 92 of unrelated issues. I have managed to get most of the odor out, relying on good old sunshine. We are at our place in KY now and when the sun came out yesterday, I sprayed the quilts with a baking soda solution, laid them over the deck railing and let them hang all day. I'll do the same today and it will probably eleminate the odor completely. Thanks for all the advice. I sure didn't mean to offend anyone.
evy

I work for a company that sells and services sewing machines and I can always tell a smoking home from a non smoking home by the look of the machine. Smokers machines will have a very yellow cast to them even when the machine should be bright white. UGH!!!

I don't think this was an offensive subject, but it is a timely one. As you can tell, I don't smoke, lol.

Customers smoke in stores? It's forbidden in all stores, including grocery stores, in our area.

I really think that if you are going to run a business, such as offering long arm quilting, you should have the consideration for the customer to NOT SMOKE around their quilt that you are quilting. That is just my opinion....

While I totally agree with this thought, smokers don't realize even when they're not smoking, they still exhale smoke. If a smoker just walks past me, I say "there goes a smoker". The smell hangs onto them. If I go to a casino, I have to hang my clothes outdoors overnight.
If I received a quilt back from a LAer & it smelled of smoke, that would be the last time. The smell of smoke stays in the air around them.

before my son quit (last december) He would smoke in his room. When I redid his room I took everything out and then washed one wall and called him in to look. It looked like I had painted over a brown wall with white. all his pictures had a yellow film and the curtains. were a mess. It was the beginning of his working on quitting. imagine what is in your lungs.ewww...

Yes, smoking does deaden taste and smell receptors! I have a friend who wears way too much perfume. I'm sure it's because she is a smoker and can't tell how loud the perfume is!