Have You Quit Pipe Smoking In the Past, and Why?

[mso489]

I quit pipe smoking in the 90's when my late wife made her third serious attempt to quit cigarettes and succeeded, so i quit my pipe in solidarity. I've gone stretches for health situations, but that time, it was for years. Have you ever quit -- for infants, kids, pets, or domestic harmony, or some other reason?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Started using most forms of tobacco when I was 17 back in '91. No stopping since.

 

[bullet08]

Not pipe. But stopped 6 months when my first son was born. Then later duty came around at work and started right back.

 

[TimeKiller]

I quit every day, then start again after I wake up.

 

[kcghost]

I have had a cigar and/or a pipe for fifty years.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

I quit cigarettes when my wife and I were trying for a family. Stopped vaping when I became sick of it.

Don’t see me quitting pipe smoking anytime soon though. Too enjoyable.

 

[warren]

I stopped cigarettes for five years once. Seemed like a good idea at the time economically. Climbed out of that hole and resumed Nat Shermans. After the heart problem I gave my ticker a full year of fully oxygenated blood. So, no tobacco for a full year. Now I'm predominately pipes, six to ten bowls daily. I do enjoy my nicotine but, seem to keep my SpO2 in the upper nineties.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Not really. Quit cigs in 2007. Vaped for a year or so in 2014 after quitting another sort of combustible leaf. Then only had a couple cigars a year or so until i picked up pipe smoking in 2019. I smoke a bowl or two a week in the summers, maybe one every couple of weeks in the winter.

I did however go without a pipe from about late October through Christmas this year. Don't know why, it was just cold, I was busy, whatever.

Tobacco use has always been intermittently in flux for me. I enjoy it, but I like to try to minimize my health risks by making it something special rather than a daily indulgence.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

Not really. Quit cigs in 2007. Vaped for a year or so in 2014 after quitting another sort of combustible leaf. Then only had a couple cigars a year or so until i picked up pipe smoking in 2019. I smoke a bowl or two a week in the summers, maybe one every couple of weeks in the winter.

I did however go without a pipe from about late October through Christmas this year. Don't know why, it was just cold, I was busy, whatever.

Tobacco use has always been intermittently in flux for me. I enjoy it, but I like to try to minimize my health risks by making it something special rather than a daily indulgence.

Ah yes the other sort of combustible leaf I found far harder to give up. Won't be going down that road again.

 

[Mr_houston]

I used to be a regular at a local pipe shop. I knew everybody and they knew me.

When my kids came, I just couldn’t spend that much time at the shop. I didn’t like to smoke alone at home. That shop closed. So, I mostly stopped. Still went to a monthly pipe club meeting now and then.

Recently, I’ve enjoyed smoking out on my screened porch.

 

[Merton]

When my children were quite young my wife asked me to stop and I did. Missed it almost every day. Picked it back up 15 plus years later and moved a level of PAD and TAD I never would have imagined. Of course, SP did not exist in my first go around, but once I found it, off I went

 

[Ethan]

I often don't bother during the coldest winter months. I smoke outside, and at some point when I am pretending to relax, and enjoy myself I give it a rest. Not sure that counts quitting. Nobody likes a quitter anyway from what I hear...

 

[ray47]

Quit the pipe for a month back in 1967 because of Middleton's Cherry Blend.

 

[BalkanCanuck]

I stopped when my son was born 10 years ago and mostly because I just had no time. Just got back to it a few months ago and have bought a bunch of pipes and tobacco. Bitten by the bug. Also started smoking cigars again which I enjoy as much as pipe smoking.

 

[Grangerous]

It’s a simple pleasure. Nothing to excess. The fall weather is when I ramp up and I enjoy it until the heat of summer. A once per day indulgence and depending on circumstances, not every day. I have gone years without —

Of course, I just finished a bowl..... ?

 

[timt]

I often don't bother during the coldest winter months. I smoke outside, and at some point when I am pretending to relax, and enjoy myself I give it a rest. Not sure that counts quitting. Nobody likes a quitter anyway from what I hear...

That's kind of where I am currently. Haven't smoked anything in a month or so but I've been using smokeless tobacco, which really sucks me in. Pressing the reset button here and haven't had any nicotine in any form for about a week.

Gonna try to be one of those now and then kind of guys with the pipe instead of 4 bowls a day (6-8 hours). We'll see how that goes. If I can't handle that, then you guys might see some tobacco going up for sale. I actually did just unload 5 pounds today.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

Yes, in fall 2001 Until summer of 2016. Serious health issues that started to be more favorably managed over the intervening years, then I retired and figured “WTF”?

 

[cachimbero]

I smoked cigarettes (since 1986), pipes and cigars (pipes since 1996) until I decided I had to quit cigarettes in July 2004. In the fall of 2006 I started pipe smoking again, once I was confident I would not smoke cigarettes anymore. I bought pipes and tobacco during the abstinence period, so it was not a very orthodox period of abstinence. I knew during the whole period that I would return to pipes and the more or less occasional cigar. I just wanted to get rid of cigarette smoking.

 

[wilblee]

Quit cigs in ‘92. Started pipe in ‘97, cigars about the same time. Then, in ‘01 with very occasional exceptions, I put the pipes down until a couple of years ago, when I realized that buying premium pipe tobacco was considerably cheaper than buying premium cigars. Of course, the savings went by the wayside once I started buying pipes again. The best laid plans...

 

[pinchoftobacco]

I typically quite for the winter because it’s too cold in nys to enjoy a pipe outside. I come back when it warms up