Smoking Quiz

People who notice that cigarettes become appealing in particular moments can use this quiz about smoking to organize those experiences before deciding what to examine more closely. The smoking quiz questions move through routines, feelings, social encounters, places, and sensory cues, so the result identifies the strongest trigger pattern, or a blended pattern when the leading scores are within one point.

What This Assessment Explores

This questionnaire examines how strongly three kinds of situations cue smoking, revealing smoking trigger patterns across routines, feelings, and social or environmental settings. It is for people reflecting on smoking patterns; it does not establish dependence or health impact.

The result compares three trigger affinities:

• Daily Routine Triggers (0-15) shows how strongly repeated activities, timing, and transitions cue smoking: Occasional signal (0-5), Noticeable pattern (6-10), or Strong affinity (11-15).
• Emotional-State Triggers (0-15) shows how strongly uncomfortable or positive feelings may cue smoking: Occasional signal (0-5), Noticeable pattern (6-10), or Strong affinity (11-15).
• Social and Setting Triggers (0-15) shows how strongly people, offers, places, and visible smoking cues influence urges: Occasional signal (0-5), Noticeable pattern (6-10), or Strong affinity (11-15).

The highest profile marks the strongest connection between that type of situation and smoking thoughts or urges.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item offers four ordered positions: no meaningful smoking link, a passing thought, active consideration, and a strong or automatic urge in situations involving routines, feelings, people, places, and smoking cues.

Methodologically, the questionnaire produces a separate score for each smoking trigger profile. The highest score is the strongest affinity; scores within one point of it appear as a blended result. Bands are reflection categories, not clinical cutoffs.

Zhou and colleagues' 2021 study describes an ecological model of smoking cues whose themes are conceptually consistent with this questionnaire, distributing cues across routines, emotions, people, places, and contexts. The content is also conceptually consistent with the Glover-Nilsson smoking behavioral questionnaire and Shiffman and colleagues' 2013 study on cue reactivity, craving, and smoking behavior. The questionnaire is not an adaptation of those instruments, and the cited studies do not validate its scores.

The result is an unvalidated self-reflection score, not a measure of dependence or health impact. Stress, recent smoking, memory, and self-awareness can influence answers, so use the strongest profile to track situations and guide reflection rather than quantify smoking risk.