Cigarette smell how to mask and or eliminate it?

febreze.
but the real advice:
Quit smoking while you still can.
Inhaling the smoke from burning dried plants and by that shortening your life, clogging your lungs, increasing your cancer risk is not worth the temporary and limited effect on your mental state. Not to mention that you also endanger those around you who are forced to inhale the smoke you exhale.

It is not possible to mask the smell because the nicotine gets into every cell of your body, and the smell oozes out of your pores. It also leaves poisonous nicotine and other chemicals on any furniture you sit on, and the potential to poison other people as well.

Most smokers don’t realize that everything they wear or touch smells like an ashtray, even with perfume or Febreeze.

Nope. I can smell it off of people by a 10 foot radius. It will linger in your furniture, curtains, etc. It lingers in your clothing. If you smoke in your car, it will diminish the resale value.

To a nonsmoker, kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. Unless your SO is also a smoker, they will not enjoy the experience.

Anything you do will be akin to not bathing for a week and using perfume to cover up the BO.

Smokers’ sense of smell diminishes, and along with that, the enjoyment of food goes too. Six months after my husband quit smoking (and he didn’t smoke at home or in front of me) he apologized for doubting that I could smell the odor of cigarettes off of him. He walked into a hotel room that was a smoking room, and just about gagged from the odor. He had to have the room changed.

Your health insurance premiums will go up, and if it’s discovered that you lied about smoking to get a lower rate, your coverage could be dropped. If you’re on birth control pills, you increase your risk of having a stroke.

The answer is no. For what reason in the world would you CHOOSE to start smoking? And yes, kissing a girl that’s smoked, taste bad.

@oratio I don’t exactly know why . . . I guess I was in a prolonged funk and after working 9 hours a day behind a register putting away carton after carton of cigarettes you kind of want to smoke or at least I did.

Oh, please don’t do that. Sure, I know what you mean. I have worked all summer, seven days a week, double shifts meaning 13–14 hours a day, doing the same.

It’s not worth it. The awful smell that will stay in you hair and clothes, the aging of your skin, the shit in your lungs, the likely cancer and ash tray smell in your mouth waking up.

Quitting smoking is hell, if you’ve done it a longer time. Pure hell.

@live_rose I did that for a couple of years and never ever experienced that need (not to say I didn’t have a try as a kid). Actually having that job reminded me not to smoke. Why? Well the people that bought their packs of ciggies all had 1 thing in common: the most horrible tar smelling morning breath ever imaginable (plus those yellow nicotine fingers, bah).

I don’t think we all want to be too preachy, but my predecessors make a valid point. You can’t hide the smell of cigarettes period. I only need the smallest fragrance of smoke to recognize it (if not by nose I will recognize the cramped stuffy feeling of my lungs).

@live_rose Coming from a smoker of 35 years who has tried countless times but still has not been able to kick the addiction….. STOP! I can’t emphasize this enough. Please stop while you still can. There is no good reason to smoke whatsoever! Keep this in mind; long after you quit, the smell will linger on and on. So before you stink up your house and most importantly, your life, please quit!

1. I agree with everyone else that it is not worth it and you should stop while you can still do it somewhat easily.

2. If you are an occasional smoker, you absolutely can mask the scent and smell from your SO. In fact, you can do it if you only smoke at work on your breaks, then immediately go home, change, hide the clothing in a sack, shower, and thoroughly brush your teeth. I have a pretty sensitive sniffer when it comes to cigarette smoke and my ex hid the habit from me for a few months after taking it back up.

The thing is, you can’t hide it from all of the people, all of the time no matter how occasional it is. And if you become a heavy habitual smoker, then you probably won’t be able to hide it from anyone. Ever.

A saucer of vinnegar (to place in the room where one smokes during your sleep).
Or so i heard once, never tried it myself.

Stop smoking, that helps.

I will chime in with the chorus…Stop now, you will appreciate it later in your life.

Even when I pass someone smoking on the sidewalk, I can smell the smoke before and after I pass the guy. Nothing masks the odor.

Not to give you hope, because everyone else is right—you should stop now—but I significantly reduce the amount of smell from cigarettes by smoking outside and by washing my hands after every one. That way, it doesn’t work its way into your clothes and furniture as quickly. But seriously, you should just quit.

Come on now, folks. Smokers poisoning everything they touch? “Like licking an ashtray”? Maybe, if the smoker in question smokes three packs a day, and keeps a patch on at all times, and chews, and eats ashes. Smoking while on breaks at work won’t make you stink. If you work your way up to a pack a day, then you will smell like cigarettes a little bit most of the time.

Also, there are plenty of good reasons to start smoking – getting breaks at work, being able to control your physical and mental state to a certain extent, and the social aspect. Doesn’t mean that there aren’t more, and better, reasons to not smoke – but you guys are acting like it’s irrational to smoke. People are adults, let them make their own decisions.

@wildpotato? When is it EVER a good idea to put a stick in your mouth, that is on fire, that is filled with poison and stuff they use to pave roads with?

@wildpotato I agree, never gotten any complaints that I smell like smoke, my teeth are white and my fingers are clean lol, people here are really going balls to the wall to try and scare the OP, yes, smoking is bad, but they’re an adult, there’s nothing more annoying than someone insinuating you don’t know what you’re doing.

@live_rose I understand that smoking is a personal choice, and you are going to do what you want to do. I just hope you understand that it is a permanent choice. I smoked for 14 years. While I loved the act of smoking, I knew that it was what killed both of my grandmothers. So this year I turned 30 and quit.

I will always be a smoker that quit. I will never be a non-smoker. I don’t have cravings very much anymore, but I do think about cigarettes. I haven’t gone out into crowds much because when I smell one, I want to smoke it. It is an addiction like any other.

And to answer the question, not much masks the smell of smoke. Whatever you try to use to mask it usually just mixes with it and you end up with the smell of someone trying to cover the smell of smoke.

Change your shirt, tie your hair up if you’re a girl, perfume, gum. That’s all really. Usually, if you smoke outside you barely smell afterwards…

@poofandmook I mentioned a few instances above. I’ll go into them in further detail:
1) When you work 9 hours a day at a convenience store or other shitty job, and the only way you can get your 2 10-minute breaks (they’ll usually give you the half-hour lunch break without question) is to join the ranks of the smokers. Smokers have a right to go outside, apparently, simply because they have to. That’s why I smoked my first cigarette. Yes, I know that the two 10-minute breaks are mandated by law if you work full-time in the US, but try telling that to most managers and you’ll be looked upon as a shirker.
2) When you have massive stress in your day and need to wind down every so often to avoid verbally and physically hurting other people.
3) When you have a physical ailment that causes your stomach to hurt most of the time, and in order to keep a job or sit through a lecture, you have to have some legal way of calming your pain.
4) When you are in graduate school with hundreds of other people who also smoke, a very good way to get to know them is to take smoke breaks together. I didn’t do it my whole first year and met almost no one; now I do and am making a lot more friends. Plus, one of my professors smokes, and now I actually have some chance of getting a good letter of recommendation from a faculty member (remember, there are hundreds of others in my university, and in a huge lecture class one has little opportunity to stand out).

These are only the reasons I have had to smoke – I’m sure there are many others.

Also, I think you misunderstand what cigarette tar is. No, roads are not paved with the stuff they scrape off smokers’ lungs upon autopsy.

@wildpotato: Oh, I’m sorry. That must be the “good” tar then, right?

Quit.

@poofandmook do you drink? take asprin, anything of that nature?

@poofandmook Way to evade all my points in answer to your question. Also, your use of the word “that” is a dangling modifier – how am I to know if you’re referring to the tar on roads or the tar in cigarettes? Furthermore, I made no value judgment on goodness or badness of either kind of tar, but merely stated that they are not, in fact, one and the same.

@wildpotato you’re right when it comes to the work thing (even though it was like 8 points ago i still thought I’d acknowledge it) nearly everyone smokes at my job and they all get a smoke break every 2 hours or so. Im not smoking just for the break’s sake but it was something that I noticed long before i bought my first pack.

Almost impossible. One smoker in an elevator. Everyone can smell it during the ride.

@mattbrowne : And the memory lingers on…

@mattbrowne
like a fart :D

Is there such a thing as ‘good tar’???

In the past, I have actually asked supervisors if I could take a Coke break while my co-workers taking their smoke break. Never really caused a problem.

Think you are not hurting yourself with smoking? I do medical coding and I see everyday what years of smoking does to people’s lungs. I code the emergency room visits and surgeries and see lots of smoker’s medical reports when the patient comes to the ER and finds out they have terminal lung cancer (or other cancers). I code hundreds of surgeries and there are not very many records that say that the patient has never smoked. The young and middle-aged smokers most of the time have 8–10 diseases that smoking has contributed to.

On a personal note, I have never smoked, but I just found out that I now have obstructive lung disease due to second hand smoke. Don’t tell me that smoking only hurts the smoker. I have a severe sensitivity to cigarette smoke and have to stay out of stores, restaurants, and any public building or open space where there are large crowds. I spend a lot of time in urgent care and ERs for help when I am exposed since I do have to eat and buy necessities. I just wish that I could watch my grandson play baseball or soccer, but I get set off every time I go. Think smoking only hurts the smoker? Think again.