I too traded the pipe for the cigs this last summer. I have missed them, not at all. I only wish I had taken up the pipe much sooner. My TADs doesn't keep up with my smoking. I go through about four ounces a month. That's to say I smoke a little more than four tins per month. That costs more than a hundred bucks a month in Canada. At these prices I will never have a cellar.
I was a heavy cig smoker so I've begun to focus on high nic tobacco in hopes of reducing the number of bowls I smoke per day, about eight. It appears to be working. I'm a writer, so whether it is lit or not, the pipe is usually in my mouth if I'm awake, especially if I'm working.
Taking up the pipe has been one of the better decisions I've made lately. And the most pleasurable. I never actually enjoyed the damned cigs, I was just addicted.
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