A cigarette is read as a habit and a pause — tension looking for relief. Dream books take it as a need for a break you are not giving yourself. Smoking in a dream when you do not smoke in waking life is linked to a wish to step outside the rules for a moment, while trying to stop is read as an effort to let go of a pattern. A cigarette that will not light points to relief that stays out of reach. Smoke drifting away carries the image of worries fading. Others smoking around you may reflect a habit or mood you pick up from them.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
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