Contemplative Silliness?

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Last Thursday, I went to a cigar group I have been going to occasionally. I had a Brickhouse Maduro. While I was there, after the others had left, I had perhaps another 30 minutes left for my cigar and I began to contemplate about the variances between a cigar and a pipe. I ignored the obvious differences and began to compare the typical “slow-sip” method common for the pipe with the different common style of smoking a cigar (basically a slow, long draw into the mouth with a much more obvious, “exhale” from the mouth).

I thought I would try to “slow-sip” with the cigar, just to see if it would be a functional approach, but it was not actually (for me at least) particularly workable nor enjoyable. Yet, it is the common way I would enjoy a pipe.

I am just writing this here because I found it a rather interesting dichotomy (again, at least for me), and thought I would throw the thought out here just to see what others may think.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

A cigar only requires about two puffs per minute to stay lit; this means it doesn’t require puffing hard and could be considered sipping like a pipe.

 

[xrundog]

I smoke cigars different now than before I started smoking pipes. I don’t know that they last much longer, but I probably enjoy them more.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

I smoke cigars different now than before I started smoking pipes. I don’t know that they last much longer, but I probably enjoy them more.

I regularly smoked pipes for decades, and rarely smoked cigars at all. But, in the last maybe two years, I have been smoking perhaps a cigar a week. I never thought much about the difference in how I was smoking a cigar…. basically just doing what felt “natural” to me. I guess I thought enough about what I was doing differently smoking a cigar last week that it kind of surprised me. Perhaps the lesson is to just not think about it.

 

[Waning Embers]

I breath smoke pipes, cigars, and cigarettes. I don't need clouds to enjoy any of them.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I smoke cigars slower than anybody I know. I believe that comes from smoking my pipes slowly.

IMO cigars are better smoked slowly, just like pipes.

 

[Sig]

I started my premium tobacco lifestyle with cigars. I was already smoking pipes occasionally sinse 1987, but really liked the THOUGHT of pipe smoking more than the "art" of pipe smoking. Then I got REALLY into cigars. Almost embarrassingly so. Once I found pipes, the cigars were put on the back burner in about 2001. But there is still no substitute for a good cigar.
I smoke cigars very slow, and I prefer Churchill, Toro, Robusto, or some sort of large Pyrimid or Torpedo shape. Robustos if I only have an hour or so.
This may sound odd on a pipe forum, but I prefer the taste of a cigar more than a pipe generally. Its really just a time thing. If im just relaxing with no time limit, its a cigar 99% of the time.
My wife still makes fun of me for saying a cigar is AS tasty as the perfect ice cream sundae. Sundaes are my wife and my favorite thing on the planet.....or just a bowl of ice cream.
But I stand by this.....I smoked a Macanudo Connecticut the other day....Im still dreaming of it.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

I smoke cigars slower than anybody I know. I believe that comes from smoking my pipes slowly.

IMO cigars are better smoked slowly, just like pipes.

I too smoke my cigars much more slowly than anyone in the cigar group I have been getting involved with. Like with you, it is probably from the cadence habits I have from pipe smoking.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

I breath smoke pipes, cigars, and cigarettes. I don't need clouds to enjoy any of them.

Interesting. I have not had a lot of success breathing smoking a cigar thus far.

 

[Sea Lord]

I don't find your commentary to be silly at all.