I Want My Own Apartment

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Me and my boyfriend have been together for years. We aren't planning on breaking up anytime soon, and we both want to get married a few years down the road, maybe sooner, but right now, at this point in my life, I want my own fucking place.

I love him to death, but I hate that I get resentful with him smoking in the house and generally not picking up as much as I like to keep the house clean. We have tried to communicate about this, tried to come up with ways to keep things clean, each having our own chores, and he has tried quitting (did for about two years), and tried those vapes, and now he's back to two packs a day.

On top of this I just feel fucking crowded even though I have other space in the house to be. I love him to death, but oh my fucking god I want my freedom back. I want to clean the house and not have it get messy again within three days, I want to only worry about cooking for myself, I want to get my own pets and hobbies without first having to come to some kind of compromise with my partner.

We're reaching a point where in the next year we will both be finally stable enough to support ourselves without leaning on each other.

My question is, should I pursue my own place? And yes I have brought this up to him before and he asked me to at least wait till we we're both in a more financially stable spot, which I was already planning on doing.

Have any other couples done this? Did it help, or harm your relationship?