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re: Do you enjoy cigars?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:23 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:23 pm to SpotCheckBilly
I quit after smoking them for 30 years. About two years after I picked up cigars. Smoke 2-4 a week. Would never touch another cigarette
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Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:32 pm to ticklechain
Cigars are so 90’s
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:35 pm to Swamp Angel
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Best thing for dealing with the cravings is a bag full of Brach's candies of various flavors. Lik
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:07 pm to braves21
Try smoking one of these Joya de Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojos and report back about your nicotene experience. 
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:08 pm to Paul Allen
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Cigars are so 90’s
Why?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:47 pm to Prominentwon
Love cigars.
Famous Smoke Shop is my go-to online retailer. Try a couple sampler packs and figure out what you like.
My regular orders are Odyssey Habano Gigante, Don Felo Churchill, Quorum Classic Double Gordo, Bayamo Superiores, Canuco Churchill, and a few others. Also like smaller machine made 5 packs like Villager Maduro.
You don't have to smoke an entire cigar in one sitting. I'll light mine, take a few puffs, set it down, a half hour later relight it, repeat. I'll even let it sit overnight and relight it the next day sometimes.
You do not have to buy $7-10 cigars. I generally buy cigars that are in the $2 range and they are just as good, as long as you find some you like and go back to them. My list above is mainly in that $2 or less range buying them in bundles of 20.
I have two humidors I maintain. It's not hard and I don't try to be perfect when it comes to their humidity. Just maintain somewhere in that 65% humidity range. I use Heartfelt beads instead of the crappy humidity control sets that come with the humi. Or just make it easy and buy Boveda packs.
Famous Smoke Shop is my go-to online retailer. Try a couple sampler packs and figure out what you like.
My regular orders are Odyssey Habano Gigante, Don Felo Churchill, Quorum Classic Double Gordo, Bayamo Superiores, Canuco Churchill, and a few others. Also like smaller machine made 5 packs like Villager Maduro.
You don't have to smoke an entire cigar in one sitting. I'll light mine, take a few puffs, set it down, a half hour later relight it, repeat. I'll even let it sit overnight and relight it the next day sometimes.
You do not have to buy $7-10 cigars. I generally buy cigars that are in the $2 range and they are just as good, as long as you find some you like and go back to them. My list above is mainly in that $2 or less range buying them in bundles of 20.
I have two humidors I maintain. It's not hard and I don't try to be perfect when it comes to their humidity. Just maintain somewhere in that 65% humidity range. I use Heartfelt beads instead of the crappy humidity control sets that come with the humi. Or just make it easy and buy Boveda packs.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:54 pm to BoardReader
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One piece of advice, though, if you do try a cigar-- don't go super duper cheap. Yeah, low end hand rolled are fine, but if you are smoking Black and Milds or Dutch Masters,
This. Low end hand rolled are fine. In fact, you can find some gems that you really like. I would stay away from Dutch Masters, King Edwards, Phillies, etc. I would recommend Villiger Export, they're tasty little things that someone coming off cigarettes might like. Made in Switzerland and the Maduro has a little chocolate note to it.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:54 pm to braves21
Dominican rum dipped
Posted on 2/6/24 at 10:30 pm to braves21
I was a 2 1/2 pack a day cigarette smoker and I also smoked a pipe and cigars. I enjoyed and inhaled all of them. Then I met this young lady, but she was bothered by my smoking. I decided that I wanted to be with her more than the tobacco. I quit tobacco cold turkey and we have been married now for 59 1/2 years.
I was 28 years old when I quit and had been smoking for 10 years. Five years later, after a particularly satisfying business dinner, I found myself probing my pocket for a cigarette.
Yes, it is an addiction, It just takes sufficient incentive to quit. Mine was a pleasant incentive, not like a warning of impending death from cancer, but equally as effective. I still tell people that I gave up smoking in exchange for my wife and that I am not yet certain that I made a good trade.
I was 28 years old when I quit and had been smoking for 10 years. Five years later, after a particularly satisfying business dinner, I found myself probing my pocket for a cigarette.
Yes, it is an addiction, It just takes sufficient incentive to quit. Mine was a pleasant incentive, not like a warning of impending death from cancer, but equally as effective. I still tell people that I gave up smoking in exchange for my wife and that I am not yet certain that I made a good trade.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 10:32 pm to braves21
I really don't. I've smoked many legitimate cubans and I always end up feeling like I have to force myself to smoke them. I just don't really get any enjoyment out of it unless I'm really drunk, and then what's the point?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 10:37 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
I never enjoyed smoking anything that wasn’t meant to be inhaled. Just doesn’t scratch the itch.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 10:43 pm to Tr33fiddy
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Sometimes I get a pack of backwoods cigars to smoke
I occasionally buy these and just gnaw on them. Is that weird?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:51 pm to braves21
I’m not sure how useful my input is based on your specific queries, but I’ve enjoyed cigars for many years, often as a good evening wind down. Patio, TV, movie/show, cigar, highballs. I usually lay off for the winter because of the temp.
I’ve been off for a while though. Not sure why. Not entirely bc of the winter bc there’s been plenty of moderate evenings. Just kinda lost the taste for it I guess.
But I do kinda miss it and the ritual of it all, enough so that I’m kinda missing it.
I’ve been off for a while though. Not sure why. Not entirely bc of the winter bc there’s been plenty of moderate evenings. Just kinda lost the taste for it I guess.
But I do kinda miss it and the ritual of it all, enough so that I’m kinda missing it.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 3:40 am to braves21
I read somewhere that if put a sweetener packet on your tongue it helps with a buzz. I have a humidor with about 12 cigars but I smoke very seldom
Posted on 2/7/24 at 5:32 am to braves21
I do on a rare occasions
Posted on 2/7/24 at 7:55 am to braves21
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Recently quit cigarettes but still have cravings. I’m thinking about buying a cheap cigar. Is there much of a nicotine buzz? I don’t drink anymore so pairing it with alcohol means nothing to me.
Haven't smoked since I was a kid and did not inhale much then but I smoke 8-10 cigars a week now. I know that it is a hard habit to quit so there is some nicotine effect but I doubt it is similar to smoking a cigarette because you only inhale a tiny, tiny amount of cigar smoke...its incidental. Most cigar smokers claim they do not inhale at all but they do a little, its nearly impossible not to. If they have smoked enough cigars in a short period of time to experience the raw throat and impact on their voice and lungs they know they have inhaled a little smoke...but nothing like a cigarette. Most of the chemical addiction comes from contact with the cigar and the smoke while it is in the mouth..an osmosis type effect...so the dosage is a lot smaller than inhaling. The ritual addiction is very similar except it takes a long time to smoke a cigar properly while the purpose of smoking cigarettes, in fact the reason they were invented, is to allow for a short smoke break while working. The ritual of smoking, lighting and handling a cigar while smoking it is similar to that of smoking a cigarette....I suspect it would fill that craving - the chemical craving is far different. Depending on how strong that craving is it may or may not satisfy it. I would think it would not but I have never tried to quit smoking cigarettes by smoking an occasional cigar...I suspect I would simply smoke enough cigars to match the amount of chemicals I was craving which would be expensive as hell even if you are talking $1 sticks.
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