I took up pipesmoking in September 2015 almost immediately after quitting a 36 year RYO habit. The main reason being I still wanted the taste of tobacco and the effects of nicotine but without the more serious health hazards of the former, of which I was suffering badly at that point.
So far so good. I very soon found and joined this excellent forum and jumped in with both feet. I took to buying whole lots of old pipes to refurbish mainly to give me some physical activity but also to keep some for myself and sell the rest. This worked so far but I never sold a single pipe......now I'm lumbered with boxes of pipes gathering dust though i do have a nice personal rotation.
After many queries on this forum I came to fine tune my tobacco preferences (straight Virginias and VaPers mainly) and through my friendly American facilitator managed to amass quite a cellar of my favourites.
Then all started to go tits up!
For a few months now I've noticed that I am getting increasingly out of breath very quickly by just doing the simplest of things. For example, getting up from the sofa to fetch a beer from the kitchen leaves me a puffing and panting mess. On occasions I thought I might even collapse! Something had to be done.
I decided to cut my 5 - 6 bowls a day down to 2 - 3 a day but with little to no improvement. I went on to smoking only my smaller pipes......same result. Even only smoking partial bowls didn't help, I was still wheezing and coughing up brown phlegm.
So I have decided to knock it on the head entirely for now and possibly come back to it in the future but perhaps for only the occasional smoke. I've read about some guys who only smoke at weekends and never quite understood that but perhaps that might be a route for me to take.
I've invested in a load of nicotine patches and yesterday was my first full day with no pipe and I can feel a slight improvement already.
I tell you chaps, struggling for breath is no joke, it's actually quite scary. Hopefully once I get back to breathing fine I'll be able to return to the pipe but in far less measure than I have heretofore.
Failing that I might just have to open my own tobacconist outlet just to rid myself of zillions of pipes and many pounds of tobacco.
Here's looking forwards :
:
Regards,
Jay.
PS: Before anyone asks, no I don't inhale my smoke though clearly some smoke is making its way into my lungs.
So far so good. I very soon found and joined this excellent forum and jumped in with both feet. I took to buying whole lots of old pipes to refurbish mainly to give me some physical activity but also to keep some for myself and sell the rest. This worked so far but I never sold a single pipe......now I'm lumbered with boxes of pipes gathering dust though i do have a nice personal rotation.
After many queries on this forum I came to fine tune my tobacco preferences (straight Virginias and VaPers mainly) and through my friendly American facilitator managed to amass quite a cellar of my favourites.
Then all started to go tits up!
For a few months now I've noticed that I am getting increasingly out of breath very quickly by just doing the simplest of things. For example, getting up from the sofa to fetch a beer from the kitchen leaves me a puffing and panting mess. On occasions I thought I might even collapse! Something had to be done.
I decided to cut my 5 - 6 bowls a day down to 2 - 3 a day but with little to no improvement. I went on to smoking only my smaller pipes......same result. Even only smoking partial bowls didn't help, I was still wheezing and coughing up brown phlegm.
So I have decided to knock it on the head entirely for now and possibly come back to it in the future but perhaps for only the occasional smoke. I've read about some guys who only smoke at weekends and never quite understood that but perhaps that might be a route for me to take.
I've invested in a load of nicotine patches and yesterday was my first full day with no pipe and I can feel a slight improvement already.
I tell you chaps, struggling for breath is no joke, it's actually quite scary. Hopefully once I get back to breathing fine I'll be able to return to the pipe but in far less measure than I have heretofore.
Failing that I might just have to open my own tobacconist outlet just to rid myself of zillions of pipes and many pounds of tobacco.
Here's looking forwards :
:Regards,
Jay.
PS: Before anyone asks, no I don't inhale my smoke though clearly some smoke is making its way into my lungs.
