I prefer a bath - I’m another one who likes to read while relaxing in hot water. It’s wonderful for aching joints and muscles.
That said - when I do shower (because being clean is important whether or not your have a bathtub or the time for a leisurely soak) it’s a pretty practical down to business get-in get-out sort of thing. Since I don’t really enjoy a shower I see no reason to prolong it.
How does one smoke in the shower??
You stand in the hot water but hold your cigarette out of the spray of water. The only people who ever ask me this are non-smokers.
Until the hot water is gone, thought it varies. Once I had an apartment with a boiler that gave infinite hot water, and I have in fact had 2.5 hour+ showers on the rare occasion there.
It’s me. I’m the one those “don’t waste water” commercials are about.
Hopefully won’t hink anyone out, but I prefer a good hot bath. That way I can read, surf and listen to audio books while vaping, as a civilized human should. 
We have on-demand hot water in our new apartment, so we can’t run out. It’s awesome, since you can be the 100th person to take a shower and the hot water will be there. But I’m all business in the shower. I don’t care for long bathing sessions, they just make me feel noodly and sleepy. It usually takes me about 10 minutes to get clean, at least half of which is spent washing and conditioning my crazy-long hair.
Where I take my time is in drying off. I can’t put clothes on damp skin, it gives me the willies.
Hot water? That’s like starting your day without… scorn.
I would spend a good long time in the shower letting my face soak in hot water to shave.
Excluding the shaving part I don’t think I go much faster in cold water.
Me too, almost always 10-15 minutes at most, and mostly because it takes forever to wash shampoo and conditioner out of long hair. And in the winter I have to force myself into the shower because there’s nothing I like less than being both wet and cold.
Fairly fast and I have a shut-off knob at the shower head so I can kill the flow while I lather.
My wife Zoe wants you to know that she misses seeing your posts. 
I’ve been known to drain the hot water tank now and again. I like to run hot water over my back to loosen it up at the start of a day.
Me? Surely I haven’t slowed my posting enough to be missed… 
No, her. She’s been limited to a cellphone lately and hasn’t visited SDMB in quite some time. I read her your “shower” thread’s OP and she was amused and wanted you to know that. That is all. 
Doesn’t your skin dry out?
We have a Jacuzzi, and even if I am taking a bath instead of a shower, 20 minutes is my upper limit before I turn into a gila monster. Especially in the winter.
Of course I use cheap soap, not body wash, but I would think just the hot water would dessicate the skin to the point of discomfort.
YMMV, of course.
Regards,
Shodan
OK, that clears it up. Good to know I’m not hallucinating all of my posts… 
No more that 10 minutes in the shower - including shaving time in the morning - but I almost always shower twice per day.
Unless I’m really tired AND really sweaty/dirty (say, right after 4 hours of yard work or a really hard hike), I drive no pleasure from a long shower. In fact, I find myself antsy after about five minutes, eager to get out and be doing something else.
But man, there are few pleasures greater than getting into a hot shower after the aforementioned yard work or hike, opening the window (my shower has a shoulder-height window to the outside), placing an ice-cold beer on the sill, and letting the massage head pound my shoulders for half an hour.
There are shampoo-the-hair days and not-shampooing-the-hair days.
On the “not” days, stay in until the muscles are relaxed and the blood is flowing (I’m a morning shower person and this is how I wake up).
On the shampoo days I’m going to be in longer. Conditioner needs to be applied and then you have to slowly detangle the strands with your fingers until you’ve got a bunch of parallel untangled hairs sliding smoothly through your fingers wherever you insert them.
Most bodywash is just diluted soap or detergent, I don’t know why people think it’s somehow better for you than regular soap.
It’s the soap that’s stripping most of the oil out of your skin, cheap or not. If you’re having a problem with that get a moisturizing body lotion or even oil and use that after you shower/bathe.
[Bolded part] Damn, that sounds like a serious hard water problem.