Hi, first time poster.
Basically I'm 27 and last year (August 15) I've smoked fleetingly and on and off since then. But this month is probably the most serious/often I've tried to make it a habit. Its a hobby I would very much like to enjoy.
Anyway I've watched a LOT of videos and read many forums and the most annoying things about some of the advice I've seen is it simply does not work - for instance
1. When i SIP, nobody explains how you actually do this - is it sucking in? But then how do you do that without inhaling? I'm scared to sip in case I inhale, as it seems to me like that means breathing in. If you breathe in, you inhale right? Also why is it whenever i sip or smoke slowly, as advised - my tobacco constantly goes out? Yet everyone seems to say sipping slowly keeps the smoke cool and the bowl lit. Yet this never happens.
2. When I smoke faster, my tobacco burns too much = kills the taste.
3. I cannot taste anything anyway - this is possibly because when I tend to pack it too tight it has no room to expand, so then when i pack it a lot less tight its too free and does not stay lit. Perfect storm. But why cant I taste anything? It just tastes of bland ash/warm but not hot smoke.
4. Whenever i try to 'char' the tobacco it either wont do this properly or if it does i basically do it. I've watched a video about this and the guy saying how 'easy' it is to 'lightly coat' the tobacco but when I do that it either doesn't char or I just over do it and plain cremate it. https://youtu.be/-D1quo_NURk?t=1220
5. How on earth do people smoke a pipe (physically,step by step) without using their hands nor inhaling?
6. I've tried many methods for packing - the 'stick it in your hand and roll the pipe over the tobacco' so it goes into a spiral. Yet this usually overpacks it and it won't stay lit. I try the 3 step method and my draw is too free, and I try trial and error and i cant taste anything/it wont stay lit.
So far I've only fluked one good smoke and that was ages ago (Dunhill Early Morning Pipe) and it was wonderful.
What on earth am I doing wrong/could i be doing instead?
Basically I'm 27 and last year (August 15) I've smoked fleetingly and on and off since then. But this month is probably the most serious/often I've tried to make it a habit. Its a hobby I would very much like to enjoy.
Anyway I've watched a LOT of videos and read many forums and the most annoying things about some of the advice I've seen is it simply does not work - for instance
1. When i SIP, nobody explains how you actually do this - is it sucking in? But then how do you do that without inhaling? I'm scared to sip in case I inhale, as it seems to me like that means breathing in. If you breathe in, you inhale right? Also why is it whenever i sip or smoke slowly, as advised - my tobacco constantly goes out? Yet everyone seems to say sipping slowly keeps the smoke cool and the bowl lit. Yet this never happens.
2. When I smoke faster, my tobacco burns too much = kills the taste.
3. I cannot taste anything anyway - this is possibly because when I tend to pack it too tight it has no room to expand, so then when i pack it a lot less tight its too free and does not stay lit. Perfect storm. But why cant I taste anything? It just tastes of bland ash/warm but not hot smoke.
4. Whenever i try to 'char' the tobacco it either wont do this properly or if it does i basically do it. I've watched a video about this and the guy saying how 'easy' it is to 'lightly coat' the tobacco but when I do that it either doesn't char or I just over do it and plain cremate it. https://youtu.be/-D1quo_NURk?t=1220
5. How on earth do people smoke a pipe (physically,step by step) without using their hands nor inhaling?
6. I've tried many methods for packing - the 'stick it in your hand and roll the pipe over the tobacco' so it goes into a spiral. Yet this usually overpacks it and it won't stay lit. I try the 3 step method and my draw is too free, and I try trial and error and i cant taste anything/it wont stay lit.
So far I've only fluked one good smoke and that was ages ago (Dunhill Early Morning Pipe) and it was wonderful.
What on earth am I doing wrong/could i be doing instead?