My wife has quit smoking about 20 times. I never got started. Growing up in Denmark everybody smoked... the "no smoking" section was some tiny dark corner somewhere.
Interestingly, she "auto-quit" the instant she became pregnant with each of the three kids... she says she actually knew she was pregnant because she'd light up one morning and suddenly it was GROSS... and she'd stop "cold turkey" right there and then... and generally not have the urge to "sneak one" till 3-6 month after each baby came.
When I was young here everyone did it too. I hate it which is remarkable because eventually I started too. That's quite astonishing that she did and very good too!
The smoking corners here are like the no smoking corners your describe then!