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I have been known to relight cigars

On occassion I leave unfinished smokes on a brick in my garage. I usually tap off any ashes and blow it out before that. If the "re"-prelight draw seems acrid I cut some of the previously lit end off. Unfinished can mean anything from two-thirds left to two inches left.

In the winter months this seems to work very well, but in the warmer months...well it sucks. I think the cold and the way the humidity gets sucked out does something beneficial to the already smoked stogie.

antaean
 
Ahh,

So I don't feel quite so strange. :D

When I do relight, and that's not really that often, it is usually the day after. I remember the first few times I did this I looked around as if to make sure the "cigar police" weren't spying on me. It felt a little dirty too, like walking up to the counter with a rolled up copy of Hustler. (note: this is a "men's" magazine from back in the day when you had to go to a newstand to buy your PoRn.) As some of you have noted, if you suspect you might be relighting a cigar, there are some steps you can take to minimize the nastiness.

1) let the cigar go out by itself, don't grind it out in your ashtray
2) blow out through the cigar to purge out the stagnant gases
3) cut off the ash

The only time I have found a cigar completely unsalvageable is if it has rained the night before. Even though my porch is covered, several hours at 100% humidity does nothing but bad to tobacco.

Wilkey
 
Can’t say I’ve ever waited a day to relight, at best a couple of hours. Although I have my reasons for it.
 
if i'm going into a store to make a purchase, i'll put the cigar on my tire of the car. that;s the only time i relight. otherwise, fugetaboutit! :cool:
 
Schwiering said:
I do NOT relight cigars the next day, or even a few hours after I let them go out. If I am in the middle of a cigar and my smoke goes out for a few minutes because I get caught up talking or something, then sure I will relight it.
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I agree!

Many a cigar will lose all the marrying together of binder filler and wrapper when left for too long.

Wilkey, if you need a few sticks, you only got to ask :laugh:

Brian
 
Thanks, Brian. :thumbs:

But you know, sometimes you just have to have a quick hit, a little hit and it doesn't even have to be very good, or even good. It just has to be short of nasty and that's enough to quell the tobacco smoke craving. :p

Well, there goes my image as the connoisseur of fine cigars :D

The funny thing is, I would rather relight the stub of yesterday's good cigar than light up a fresh dog rocket.

Wilkey
 
I was wondering if this day later relight experiment was going to be tried with the 'Cubans' out of the other thread. Basically, yesterday's dog rocket relit today!
 
My name is Tony.....I am a nub relighter.

I have been known on occasion to relight cigars from the night, day, week before. At times I have gone as far as smoking a nub so small that I need to put it in a my pipe to finish it. Hell, I have picked up cigars that people have left in the shop and smoked them (yea, that is kinda nasty). A cigar is never as good on the relight, but if you have enough smoke left it can still be somewhat enjoyable.
 
:) My policy is that if I cannot finish it I will not light it. :)
I will relight lawn mowing smokes but never premiums or ISOM's. I spend my money on smokes to enjoy and if I can't fully enjoy them I do not want to ruin them. :cool:
 
Schwiering said:
I do NOT relight cigars the next day, or even a few hours after I let them go out. If I am in the middle of a cigar and my smoke goes out for a few minutes because I get caught up talking or something, then sure I will relight it.
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What he said!



OK - I may relight after a few hours..but I never inhaled! :cool:
 
The timing of this was perfect. Just yesterday I lit up a bolivar on the way to work. Only finished about half of it. During my lunch break I re-lit it, but it was a little too harsh to enjoy.

I've relit maybe 3-4 times, and the same thing always happens, I end up putting it back out. They just don't taste very good to me like that.
 
Wilkey how do those Moontraces smoke the day after? I know you like to savour those bad boys.
 
Guilty as charged! But relighting the next day is pretty much the norm. Can't recall doing that with a gar for any longer period of time.
 
I am shocked and appalled by this thread. Many of you spend $35 for a cutter, and $100 on a lighter, taste all sorts of exotic food in your smokes and then commit the most egregious of all sins. Relight a day old cigar!!! I must say I'm very disillusioned. Personally I'd sooner light up a fresh Muniemaker than relight a day old premium. I'm not sure I'll ever recover from this. Wilkey, Wilkey , Wilkey, I'm so disappointed.. I wanted so much to be like you when I grow up. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Doc
 
I try not to relight by smoking the appropriate size sticks with the time that I have, but I have done it a couple of times with double coronas. Didn't enjoy the first few puffs of it, but they did get better. Probably the reason I don't stock too many double coronas or churchills. I also keep a few minis and clubs for those 15 minute breaks when I just have to fill that craving.
 
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