Background: Trends since last two decades indicates that the prevalence of smoking among women in India is increasing at an alarming rate. We carried out this study with theaim to delineate the lifestyle factors of women smokers. Methods: A cross-sectionaldescriptive study was conducted in Bhopal city employing non-probability snowball sampling technique. The total duration of thestudywas ten months. Data was collected from 874 women between the ages of 15-30 years who smoke tobacco with the help of a structured questionnaire. Results:Mean age of starting smoking was 21.8 years. Most participants had a history of smoking tobacco free flavored hookah before initiating cigarette smoking. Most participants smoked their first cigarette while using tobacco-free hookahs (51.8 %) followed by under influence of alcohol (38.7 %). About 23.0% women believed that occasional cigarette smoking is not harmful. Only about one-third of women had ever thought of quitting smoking. Conclusion:Further research in the form of longitudinal study is needed to prove that using tobacco free hookah facilitates the initiation of tobacco smoking among women and thus contributing towards increase in the prevalence cigaret smoking among women. Keywords: Tobacco, Hookah; Women; Smoking,; India