Smbauer
Active Member
Just curious how others decide what to smoke when its their time. I imagine most of us have a pretty large selection to choose from, and even with my relatively small one I often have trouble deciding.
How do you decide...
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Pugman1943
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It like looking for a sweet Rememberance or something that just reaches out for you. Sometimes there is logic, but I seldom go back to back on a the same stick. Put five out, mix them up, close your eyes and pick. No big deal, they are all good.
stogie fan
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I keep an inventory list, actually two, and I keep a consumption tracking list.
I refer to both when I am feeling the itch to puff.
One of my inventory lists keeps track of how long what has been in the humi.
Great idea, and particularly when I have overlapping (by date) inventory blends, and/or vitolas.
Some times I want to try the same thing that has been in storage longer, or a shorter period of time.
My consumption list helps to to change my puffing rotation.
So far this year I have had only one particular cigar more than once.
I blame AOTA on my years in the semi business as it was all stats, all day, everyday but then there's usually a silver lining.
I refer to both when I am feeling the itch to puff.
One of my inventory lists keeps track of how long what has been in the humi.
Great idea, and particularly when I have overlapping (by date) inventory blends, and/or vitolas.
Some times I want to try the same thing that has been in storage longer, or a shorter period of time.
My consumption list helps to to change my puffing rotation.
So far this year I have had only one particular cigar more than once.
I blame AOTA on my years in the semi business as it was all stats, all day, everyday but then there's usually a silver lining.
stogie fan
Well-Known Member
I grab a pipe to avoid the trama
I have smoked a LOT in my life time, and I mean a LOT.
I am 60 years of age & I have basically 60 years of lung damage from smoking; I won't go into all the details.
When I was a teenager one of my (older) smoking buddies smoked a pipe, and he had several; also a lot of tobacco blends to boot.
When I was at Henry's one day I said, "Henry, load me up your favorite tobacco in your favorite pipe, and lemme try it out."
So, Henry did just that; he fired it up, took a couple of good puffs, it smelled fantastic, and he handed me the pipe.
I tried a few puffs, and I just couldn't figure out why something that smelled so GOOD could taste so bad.
Never tried a pipe after that; I just kept smoking my Malrboro reds & my Columbian.
cohibasurfer
one day older than dirt
Lay out an assortment and post a pic and ask @bfreebern. He's always ready to help.
I typically have an idea in mind, what I want to smoke. If not, then I just grab whatever looks/sounds good and go from there.
cohibasurfer
one day older than dirt
That's a funny looking thumbs up.
I typically have an idea in mind, what I want to smoke. If not, then I just grab whatever looks/sounds good and go from there.
CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
Damn! At least I waited until I was five to start smoking!I have smoked a LOT in my life time, and I mean a LOT.
I am 60 years of age & I have basically 60 years of lung damage from smoking; I won't go into all the details.
When I was a teenager one of my (older) smoking buddies smoked a pipe, and he had several; also a lot of tobacco blends to boot.
When I was at Henry's one day I said, "Henry, load me up your favorite tobacco in your favorite pipe, and lemme try it out."
So, Henry did just that; he fired it up, took a couple of good puffs, it smelled fantastic, and he handed me the pipe.
I tried a few puffs, and I just couldn't figure out why something that smelled so GOOD could taste so bad.
Never tried a pipe after that; I just kept smoking my Malrboro reds & my Columbian.
stogie fan
Well-Known Member
Damn! At least I waited until I was five to start smoking!
When I was very young I was fascinated with smoking; it seemed like everyone was smoking, something.
All of my uncles smoked cigarettes, one uncle smoked cigars
, and one of my aunts smoked.Every Sunday before church all of the deacons were out in front of the church smoking like crazy.
Even my pediatrician smoked; he smoked like a freight train in the clinic. I would go to the clinic every Saturday for an allergy shot.
It was a different era back then.
I started smoking at age 14 when we were on break at orchestra practice; Swisher Sweets.
Two weeks later I was smoking Marlboro reds.
All of this, not long after I had my last asthma attack.
When I was in my early 20s I could go through 2, to 3 packs a day, depending if I was shooting pool, or doing some other 'stuff.'
I have smoked a LOT in my life time, and I mean a LOT.
I am 60 years of age & I have basically 60 years of lung damage from smoking; I won't go into all the details.
When I was a teenager one of my (older) smoking buddies smoked a pipe, and he had several; also a lot of tobacco blends to boot.
When I was at Henry's one day I said, "Henry, load me up your favorite tobacco in your favorite pipe, and lemme try it out."
So, Henry did just that; he fired it up, took a couple of good puffs, it smelled fantastic, and he handed me the pipe.
I tried a few puffs, and I just couldn't figure out why something that smelled so GOOD could taste so bad.
Never tried a pipe after that; I just kept smoking my Malrboro reds & my Columbian.
You just needed to find the right blend. I smoked Marlboro Red hard pack for a good 10 years before I got the serious sickness for cigars in the late 90's. I enjoyed the act of packing a fresh pack of Reds and then taking that first cigarette and smoking it with my morning coffee. I quit cigs cold turkey when I got serious about cigars and will never look back. I wish that I had started smoking pipes as well when I got the cigar bug.
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drunkfish3
Angry Fish
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
stogie fan
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when I started smoking cigarettes as a 14 year old I basically did it because it was (then) considered the 'cool' thing to do.
During the basic time frame I smoked that 'other' stuff too.
I quit the 'other' stuff in 1998 & I quit cigarettes in 1999.
I started the cigar thing in 2007 as a curiosity, then I got serious about cigars within a few years.
Never should have started smoking at all; I nearly died from pneumonia at 21 months of age, had pneumonia at least 6 times, had asthma until I was 14, had the flu more times than I care to remember so, I was never a candidate for being a smoker.
Too late though because I'm now 60 years old, and I smoked 188 cigars in 2020.
I might as well be a steam locomotive because I smoke more than one.
My physicians still don't understand why my lungs still function & I get a yearly CAT scan for my lungs; early detection for lung cancer.
Puff puff .................
Damn! At least I waited until I was five to start smoking!
LOL, out of the womb. Us old guys didn't mess around.
when I started smoking cigarettes as a 14 year old I basically did it because it was (then) considered the 'cool' thing to do.
During the basic time frame I smoked that 'other' stuff too.
I quit the 'other' stuff in 1998 & I quit cigarettes in 1999.
I started the cigar thing in 2007 as a curiosity, then I got serious about cigars within a few years.
Never should have started smoking at all; I nearly died from pneumonia at 21 months of age, had pneumonia at least 6 times, had asthma until I was 14, had the flu more times than I care to remember so, I was never a candidate for being a smoker.
Too late though because I'm now 60 years old, and I smoked 188 cigars in 2020.
I might as well be a steam locomotive because I smoke more than one.
My physicians still don't understand why my lungs still function & I get a yearly CAT scan for my lungs; early detection for lung cancer.
Puff puff .................
Do you inhale or retrohale?
stogie fan
Well-Known Member
I try not to do either one but I'm never 100% successful
I have also experienced a few upper respiratory infections over the past several years but a 'Z-pack' knocks that out FAST ...........