try the mi mitsu suggestions:
http://www.howtodothings.com/home-and-garden/a4685-how-to-remove-cigarette-odor.html

i used to detail corvettes after i painted them (simple restorations) back in the day when i was in college, and i can vouch for both the hydrogen peroxide and coffee grounds. had a lot of luck with the coffee. i don't drink it, but it makes a great smell killer - can be VERY effective on cigarette and cigar smoke (then i dump the grounds on my rose bushes - makes em happy). coffee also works on burnt wiring smells too, if you eliminate the source first. i had to clean out a 77 vette (in 1977) that a guy burned the dash out of installing an el cheapo k-mart stereo without using fuses. just about burnt that sucker up. it was only a few months old too. that's when i found out about the coffee trick from my older brother.
citrus cleaners were useful in de-pining my porsche 944 after i pulled the interior out - it had that east texas deep piney woods scent to it - but i used the peroxide for the expensive carpets (followed it with arm and hammer paste, then a regular commercial carpet foam), since i didn't want the brown to wash out. i just let it 'stew in the peroxide' out back for a few hours. i used a meguiar's leather cleaner on the leather seats, door panels and dash. the 944 still smells good 20 years later. pristine clean. i couldn't even use the big buck carpet mats i got for it (back when you could get the porsche crest on them) because every time you'd put your shoes down on the carpet, up came the piney woods. hint: while you have the carpets out, get rid of whatever underlayment is there, you'll never get the smell out of that, and then put in some nice, thick new undercarpet material to keep out heat, cold and noise. ;-)
jack b :-) in midland, tx usa

Very interesting methods! Glad I dont smoke or allow anyone to smoke in my vehicles

If you were in California a simple trip to the junkyard and you would find a few good interiors to swap. No such luck in the rust belt......What Frank said. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />

I did some work once for a guy who did insurance repair work. They used a bazooka looking fogger thing that blasted the house full of some kind of chemical fog that got rid of every trace of smoke smell. Worked like a wonder horse. I'd try to google restoration supplies and see what I found.

I bought a used car for my new DD back in Aug. The dealer had been using/test driving it and I'm pretty sure he was a cigar smoker. I bought the "Automotive" Febreze and after 3 spray downs about 3 days apart the smell was gone. I suspect the cigar smoke was fairly fresh and was only done for a few weeks, so that may have been why it was so easy to eliminate but I was still impressed how well the Febreze worked. To me it was definitely worth the $4 or whatever it was to eradicate that smell so quickly and easily.

Take up smoking.

clean really good with clean green. Then wait to dry and vacuum


we have softener refills in a plastic bag type thing. I just leave one under the seat. it works well for old smells. not so sure about cigarette smell.

I've had my Chevy for about 5 years (it's an 01). After a long dry spell, the AC will blow out old cigarette stank. Usually the first morning there is dew on the truck...I've cleaned and detailed the truck many times and washed the carpet/seats due to the kids... and the stank still comes out of the heater/ac. I've been considering drilling a hole and spraying in AC/cooling tower cleaner in and/or pinching the drain and letting it flush out.

Cut the top off. Then it will smell fresh and clean all the time.

I let folks smoke in my truck and I don't even smoke........Just crack the window and blow it out.

The rule is, when in my truck anything goes as long as it's fun. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />