Mine is a fairly clear progression I think. I first remember being fascinated by a picture in my first grade history book of Nathan Hale with a noose around his neck, and the story that went with it. then anything I saw on tv or in movies that had a hanging in it.
Eventually I got the idea that I wanted to know what it felt like to be hanged. I started out with a few weak attempts. Thinking I could just pick my feet up and let myself hang briefly. That didn't work so I progressed to different attempts, like just bending my knees to let a noose choke me. This usually accompanied by a prepubescent hard on.
At about 12 I had been wanting to try cigars. About the same time I saw a picture of a man with a cigar in his mouth and a noose around his neck, and I watched "Hang 'Em High" for the first time. That made me have to try cigars, and I resolved to ramp up my hanging experiments.
I was a big kid and looked older than I was, so I was able to buy some cigars. This would have been 1973. I smoked one outside at night and loved it. I was a natural and didn't choke or get sick at all. It was a normal corona sized cigar, Dutch masters or White Owl I think.
A few days later I was home alone and decided to smoke a cigar and hang. I had a real noose up in my room and was checking myself out in the mirror with the cigar and the noose on. This gave me a raging hard on which I didn't yet understand the purpose of, but was about to find out!
For my hanging, I had a belt from a robe with a slip knot suspended from a pipe that ran along the wall in the next room. I had a sturdy bench against the wall and was able to step off and hang for a few seconds, step back on and get the noose loose. My back was firmly against the wall, but aside from that I was really hanging. I had no idea how dangerous this was. Having just watched a movie where Clint hanged for a ridiculously long time and survived, I thought I could hang for as long as I could stand it.
After hanging I went back to the noose and smoked my cigar some more. My face was still flushed, my cock was throbbing harder than ever and I went back to hang again. This time I took it a little longer and got out of it again. Then I repeated the whole thing again, and as I was getting the noose loose, I felt something intense happening to my cock and pulled my pants down just in time to shoot a huge wad! At that moment, I understood just what those erections were for and a lot more.
I had heard about jacking off and cumming but had no idea! I assure you it didn't take me long to figure out how to make it happen again. I also found out for myself that hanging can make a man cum before I ever heard any stories about it. There is no doubt that if I had really been being hanged that morning, it would have made me have an orgasm.
That accounts for the hanging fetish and possibly my smoking fetish too. If the cigar with the hanging didn't do it, an older neighbor girl and the women at the salon where I got my hair cut did. The girl invited me to smoke with her one day but I turned her down. I was afraid of getting caught and didn't smoke cigarettes yet anyway. I ended up regretting that since she was cute, and I felt like maybe I missed my chance to get together with her.
A few days later, I went to get my hair cut. The two women at the salon were hot and I had a huge crush on one of them. I told them about the neighbor girl, and asked how you learn to smoke a cigarette without choking? They gave me one to try and coached me on taking tiny drags and inhale, to avoid choking or getting sick. They told me I just needed practice to get used to them. Like I said I looked older, so the ladies weren't too out of line teaching what appeared to be and almost high school aged guy how to smoke. Their motive was to get me hooked up with the girl I liked. Maybe they were enjoying being naughty and corrupting me though! It worked, because I loved smoking cigarettes and in few days was hanging out and smoking with the neighbor girl almost every day. That led to my first kiss and before too long first sexual experience.
Eventually, the hanging, smoking and women all combined to make up my fetishes and favorite fantasy. Being hanged by a sexy smoking woman.