Being a smoker, and taking classes at one of the most cardio driving dojans makes things interesting for me.

I will not smoke in my dobak simply because the only time I wear it is when I am in class.  I have seen a number of people get out of cars and so forth with thier dobak on but this is not for me.  I will normally crush out my cig in the car, grab my gear then head to the lockerroom and change.  After class I hit the locter room and will normally light up around the leaving the dojan point.

Smoking around classmates

This is something I normally will do anyways.  I do not hide the fact that I smoke but I will not advertise it either. I atempt to keep it out of plan view because the way it looks and in our out of a dobak at the health club branches the regular members know the TKD people and being seen with a cig is not something I want to project to the world, but my close friends know I smoke. 

The school i train at has  15 or so dojans around the city and the one I train at has a very cardio driven instructer.  For the first month or two of the advanced class I felt as if I was going to die because my cardio was not nearly up to par for his class.  However now a days I get through class just fine, and when I take classes at other branches I notice that even as a smoker I have a lot better cardio then other people who do not smoke.