Salivation from cigars

[Swifty]

I've noticed this for some time, but it really started to bug me yesterday when I was smoking while blowing snow. The problem is I can't seem to keep a cigar in my mouth for any length of time before my mouth fills up w/saliva. It's like as soon as I touch a cigar to my lips I start to salivate like a bull mastiff. Anyone else expereince this?

 

[Cheeze]

Yes I do. For me it is when I first light it. Not sure why it happens though.

 

[bfreebern]

Maybe it's a phallic thing for you two?


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By the way, it happens to me too.

 

[Swifty]

Maybe it's a phallic thing for you two?


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By the way, it happens to me too.

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I kinda figured I put myself up on a tee with this thread. :laugh:

 

[cigardawg]

Duh? When I first read this, I thought you wrote "Salvation" from cigars. I was right with you...sometimes they do save you (from work, from strangling someone, from going nuts).

Anyway, I have the same problem. Can't just keep the cigar in my mouth. Have to hold onto it. I think it is just the sudden activation of your saliva glands. There are certain types of tobacco (learned this at the RTDA) that activate the sour-reading taste buds in your mouth. These taste buds make you salivate. One for sure is the piloto cubana grown in the dominican. I'm sure there are plenty of others.

There, I have just expended my knowledge of cigars and salivation.

 

[BkCloud114]

You all sound like you have oral fixations....

THANK GOD ...... I thought I was the only one it happened to :0

Hey Swifty, thanks for being man enough to ask

 

[guinnessguy]

Exactly how much saliva does a cigar-smoking Bull Mastiff produce? And, without opposable thumbs, how the heck does he hold it?? Ahh, the mysteries of life.........

 

[psyktek]

Routine occurence. Unless you're a chomper and spitter, don't hold the stick in your mouth for longer than a few seconds, or you'll have drool all down the body. (Was gonna say shaft, but Leebo might view this thread. :laugh: )

 

[puffnstuff]

one other contributing factor might be that it's really challenging to effectively drain your mouth by swallowing when your mouth is open widely enough to accommodate a cigar ( no innuendo intended). so, an accumulation of saliva becomes difficult to avoid, and your cigar either becomes a spit-sponge or you drool like a lobotomized cigar fanatic.

....and that's why when I'm not puffing, I'm usually just holding my cigar with my hand.

but I'm guessing that some more-experienced botl's can hold 'em in their mouth with grace and no drool.

 

[SFG75]

I've noticed this for some time, but it really started to bug me yesterday when I was smoking while blowing snow. The problem is I can't seem to keep a cigar in my mouth for any length of time before my mouth fills up w/saliva. It's like as soon as I touch a cigar to my lips I start to salivate like a bull mastiff. Anyone else expereince this?

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Yep, I've experienced that a lot as well. I do to such a degree that I actually prefer to spit in a can while smoking, it just collects in the sides of my mouth and its more annoying than anything else. It's a natural response of course, which is why it's recommended that you keep a lit cigar in your mouth only for a limited amount of time, since the saliva could interfere with the draw of your cigar. Of course, some people clinch it with their teeth and others have iron stomachs that would aborb battery acid.

 

[Kento]

Happens to me too, although only when holding larger rings. My theory is the larger rings prevent me from fully closing my mouth. This dries out the interior, which signals the saliva glands to go into overdrive.

 

[Thumper9]

there is also a tobacco called san viscenti (sp?) which specifically triggers certain salivary glands in the mouth. but i agree with all of you too, really bad after you first light it up.

 

[Treamayne]

Concur with Scott....

I prefer a spit bottle, esp. when I smoke n drive. Alos, if you search you'll find a few threads on this topic, although most are centered on the "newbie gets sick" problem. (Which is how I first discovered my salivation issues - 2 weeks into the hobby, reflexively swallowing without thinking and a full Brazilia Amazon... that hurt)

 

[preembargo]

I think it's just a Pavlovian response to something tasty. Did someone just ring a bell?

 

[the gurkha]

I think it's just a Pavlovian response to something tasty. Did someone just ring a bell?

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God I hate Psychology :angry2:

 

[preembargo]

God I hate Psychology :angry2:

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Zo tell me, Vy do you hate Zychology?


"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Sigmund Freud

 

[SFG75]

Concur with Scott....

I prefer a spit bottle, esp. when I smoke n drive. Alos, if you search you'll find a few threads on this topic, although most are centered on the "newbie gets sick" problem. (Which is how I first discovered my salivation issues - 2 weeks into the hobby, reflexively swallowing without thinking and a full Brazilia Amazon... that hurt)

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LOL-I hear ya there Karl. :laugh: I should've started out with the likes of a Macanudo, Baccarat, or something mild like those brands. Instead, I tried an Onyx Reserve and JyDN :0