Whether you would like to find out how to light up cigarettes properly or are only curios how smokers do it, the following article will provide you with all the necessary information.

Smokers acknowledge that they take up cigarettes due to various reasons: willing to boost self-esteem or look brave like favorite celebrity actors in box-office movies, others state they began lighting up to vex parents. However, stress and depression also make up a serious motive to try smoking, as many smokers admit that they experience a huge mood enhancement after lighting up, caused by the interaction of nicotine with hormones.

Nevertheless, everyone knows that smoking is hazardous for humans and is related with severe health complications; so, think twice before taking up cigarettes for the first time.

But, if you firmly decided to try lighting up, here is the step-by-step instruction how to smoke cigarettes properly:

1. Before lighting up, remove the transparent cover from the cigarette pack. You can do it by finding a tip of the cover on the right side of the pack and pull it throughout the pack. It will divide the cover into two parts which you can take off easily. Don’t forget to throw that litter into the bin or ashtray.
2. Then, open the pack and select one cigarete. Place it among your thumb and forefinger in such a manner so that the filter would be directed to your body.
3. Bring the filtered end towards your mouth and grip it by your lips. Let the cigarette reach the wet part of your lips, hold the cigarette by your lips.
4. Use a match or a lighter to light up your cigarette.
5. Take the burning lighter close to your cigarette simultaneously making 1-3 shorter inhalations. Usually one puff is enough to light up the cigartte. Experienced smokers avoid making many puffs when lighting up as it generates large amounts of smoke. Another advice is to avoid inhaling the first portions of smoke.
6. Be sure that the match you have used to light the cigarette is completely extinguished, a otherwise it can provoke a fire.
7. Take out the cigarette from time to time and exhale the smoke.
8. Keep puffing. Feel how the warm smoke penetrates into your body. Exhale the smoke.
9. Shake off the ash into the ashtray. While you are doing this, hold the cigarette tighter so that the cigarette would not slip out from your fingers and burn you.
10. Stop inhaling when the cigarette has been burned 1/4″ from the filter. If you prefer non-filtered cigarettes, extinguish your cigarette when it starts burning your fingers.
11. Put out the cigarettes completely. Be sure the cigarette is not left smoldering because it can start a blaze. If you have smoked in a place when the ashtray is not within reach, extinguish using the sole of your shoe. Do not throw the but to the ground, keep your locality clean!