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The increase in the number of patients, visiting to the clinic with an indication of lung cancer are thought to be due to the age of smokers getting earlier. The severity of the disease is not only due to late diagnosis but also because patients who have been diagnosed with lung cancer do not stop smoking. Based on research, in patients with post-lung cancer diagnosis, 51% continue to smoke. This descriptive study aims to determine the characteristics of lungs clinic patients, their smoking behavior and the correlation of both. Respondents were the patients of the lungs clinic who still smoked. The number of respondents were 55 patients, coming from 3 Hospitals in Yogyakarta Indonesia and 1 Hospital in Islamabad Pakistan, which were taken by incidental sampling. Data were analyzed and presented descriptively. The results showed that the average age of respondents was 48 years, 40% had senior high school education and 67.3% worked as entrepreneurs, private employees and laborers. They smoked 12 cigarettes / day in average for 27 years. There is a correlation between age and duration of smoking (r = 0.755, p value 0,000), and there is a correlation between their job and the average number of cigarettes smoked / day (r = -0.266, p value 0.05). There is no correlation between education level with smoking behavior and there is no correlation between respondent characteristics with respondents knowledge about smoking and lung cancer. The results of this study are expected to trigger the efforts of interested parties to focus more on lung clinic patients who smoke and ultimately can prevent lung cancer.