Other way around actually. I mostly smoked a pipe for the past 35 years. It was the first smoking that I picked up and stayed with since age 17. The online community has been souring for a few years now and it left a bad taste in my mouth and I found friendlier more like minded folks in the RYO crowd. Fortunately, the majority of my cellared tobacco translates well to cigarettes so I threw away the pipes and took up RYO.
It sure surprised me that you gave up your pipe...as long you got your reason and it works for you its allright..I remember not long ago you mentioned you smoke almost 2 pounds a month...I was like gosh- thats a lot. I also started a pipe at age 17 but a I had few years off in between..Now I am 53 and only smoke 1-3 bowls a day but average is 1 bowl / day yearly.I never smoked cigaretts..I was off forum for over a year and remember you being quite knowledgeble here on forum..I too was tired of certain people here which attacked anybody who even just slightly mentioned politics or guns etc..and all the bullshit about you need vaccines and covid thing and discussions were shut down just at the moment they got interesting...people were treated as little kids shutting down their interesting discussions..I am here only occasionaly now.but good luck with RYO
You gave up pipe smoking because the forums soured you on pipe smoking?
I have 25lbs of tobacco cellared. Right now I'm smoking Old Joe Krantz. I enjoy Sutliff Mark Twain and have 10lbs cellared of just that. I also enjoy english blends and rustica.
Much downtime. I'm a psychologist so my day revolves around 30-45 minute sessions per patient that may have hours between patients.
I was there last year, there's a pub near the castle. A lot of blokes were smokin cigars in the beer garden. Then I realised there is an offie near by that sells em. I had a bowl in the beer garden, not something I would normally do, but when there's lads there with massive Cubans on the go, I'm getting involved. Lovely place though, really enjoyed the castle and walking along the Medway.
Just some members on different forums. The snobbery, bickering, and the way they would treat other members. Saturation aversion became another issue and I just no longer enjoyed doing it.
That’s actually really interesting, I never really thought of that but I suppose if you give the tobacco a really good grind it’s just as easy to twist it up and a rolling paper and smoke it like a cigarette and actually it could be more convenient a lot of times to do it that way well shit man now I got a new thing to try! I smoke cigarettes forever gave those up for cigars then the cigars I like got so expensive. I went back to Pipes and have plenty of pipe tobacco, but I still smoke a cigar to every day. I wonder if that would change if I start rolling my own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco because it’s that same oral fixation and holding it in your hand like a cigarette or a cigar of course Interesting I’m gonna give it a try.
I still try to help when I can.
Just a thought question…. since I have never smoked RYO…. except one time way back when my future father-in-law asked if I wanted to try a RYO (I kind of think he was wondering if I knew how to roll a joint, as he was perhaps wondering if I smoked marijuana
and he did not want that for his daughter… I failed miserably in trying to roll a cigarette 
). Do you find smoking a RYO different in any appreciable way to smoking the same tobacco in a pipe? My (perhaps faulty) logic would think it would be pretty much the same. Just curious.
Having to refine the cut makes it burn faster so you have to be careful but flavor wise it's quite similar. Virginias and orientals are my favorites.
With all due respect, that is a reason for someone to quit the forums, not the hobby.
