The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary

by Nancy Wagaman
The idea of an addiction or a nervous habit (possibly to different substance, activity, habit, or way of thinking).

A source of physical, emotional, or mental toxicity in your life.

Self-sabotage.

Rebellion.

A desire for more independence or a stronger sense of identity.

A cigarette burning can represent the exhaustion or “burning up” of resources, energy, or time somehow in your life.

Consider what the idea of smoking brings to mind for you personally.

See Ashes, Fire, Destroying, Cigar, Smoke

New American Dream Dictionary

by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
1. Unconscious pleading for someone to give up smoking habit.

2. Worry about illness.

3. If someone is smoking, liking or disliking the person for being out of the mainstream of behav­ior, whatever that may be.

Little Giant Encyclopedia

by Klaus Vollmar
Once the image of intellectual activity, cigarettes now indicate dependency and addiction. Symbol of taking a break. According to Freud, a phallic symbol.

Folklore: Lighting a cigarette points to having new plans.