How Many Bowls do You Smoke a Day?

[Choatecav]

How do you keep cigar smoke out of your nose while smoking hands free?

As Chasing Embers said, it can be kept lit with just wisps but it is also easier to stick between fingers and still be able to use hands and get stuff done. Also, it is easier to lay down for a bit and then come right back to.
If I'm on my tractor and I were to drop the cigar, well...... just loss of cigar. However, if I drop a pipe, that is a huge loss.

 

[Zlyner]

0～2 bowls on weekdays.
Up to 5 bowls on weekends.
And I only smoke strong blends on weekends.

 

[Eastmon]

A couple times a week, mainly in summer as it’s nice to sit outside and take my time.

I do hit those damn cigs tho.

 

[justscience]

This question recurs frequently on all forums I visit. I never want to put anything online that can be retrieved later and used against me, say, by an insurance company. I am here because I like to collect and read about pipes and tobaccos. So zero. I am officially a nonsmoker to anyone on the internet.

 

[bersekero]

I used to smoke cigarettes for many years, then switched to vaping for over a decade, and for a while I was doing both. Eventually, I got tired of them—especially vaping. Every now and then I’d enjoy a cigar, but since they’ve gotten so expensive, I gave those up too.

About a year ago, I got back into pipe smoking.
These days I smoke around 6–8 bowls a day, and I’ve completely dropped cigarettes and vaping.

My routine goes like this: in the morning I have a small pipe with my coffee.
At the office, I keep two pipes that I smoke daily during the week.
At home, I’ve got six pipes that I rotate so each gets a day off.

On weekends, I head out to the countryside where I keep a briar and two cobs, and I smoke all three. After that, they get a five-day rest.

So, I wanted to ask fellow pipe smokers who also do 6–10 bowls a day: how many pipes do you usually have in your rotation?
I’m starting to feel like I don’t have enough!

 

[trd79]

I recently started smoking a pipe to get my cigarette habit in check. My addiction isn't just nicotine; it's the constant fiddling with a cigarette, watching the smoke billowing through the air. Incorporating the pipe, I have gone from three packs a day to less than a pack. I'd estimate 5-8 bowls a day. The great thing about the pipe is there is quite a bit of fiddling to do, from packing the bowl to tamping down the tobacco and cleaning the pipe, so it's quite relaxing for those who need to have something to fiddle with.

Another thing is, depending on the pipe, a bowl can last 30 minutes or more. You can also let the pipe go out and pick it back up later; it doesn't affect the taste, and there's little waste doing that.

 

[bersekero]

I completely agree with the above. Especially for me, being hyperactive, I always want to have something to keep me busy, and the whole ritual around the pipe is very important to me. Coming from cigarettes and vaping, the only problem is that I occasionally inhale, but I’m managing to cut that down more and more.
Lately I am practicing slow smoking and it's working. Anyway I use to put the pipe down and do something else so I don't mind relights.

 

[tomatamot]

So, I wanted to ask fellow pipe smokers who also do 6–10 bowls a day: how many pipes do you usually have in your rotation?
I’m starting to feel like I don’t have enough!

About 80 pipes.

 

[Waning Embers]

So, I wanted to ask fellow pipe smokers who also do 6–10 bowls a day: how many pipes do you usually have in your rotation?

I regularly only smoked one pipe multiple times per day often for weeks at a time before switching to another but thoroughly cleaning it after each smoke. Though owning hundreds of pipes at one time, I never followed any kind of set rotation on pipes or tobacco.

 

[bersekero]

This totally answered my question. Thanks a lot mate.

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

I regularly only smoked one pipe multiple times per day often for weeks at a time before switching to another but thoroughly cleaning it after each smoke. Though owning hundreds of pipes at one time, I never followed any kind of set rotation on pipes or tobacco.

You do not smoke your pipes anymore or you changed order how you smoke them now?

 

[The Benedictine]

You do not smoke your pipes anymore or you changed order how you smoke them now?

He doesn't smoke pipes anymore

 

[Waning Embers]

You do not smoke your pipes anymore or you changed order how you smoke them now?

Other than a coloring experiment I'm doing with a meerschaum pipe my daughter bought for me, I got rid of all of my former pipes and switched to RYO.

 

[folkleaf]

Usually once per day... right before bed. On Saturdays, 2-3 times. My work situation will be changing in about a year to allow for smoking... so who knows, at that point.

 

[The Benedictine]

I smoke between 10-15 bowls a day along with a cigar or two.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I smoke between 10-15 bowls a day along with a cigar or two.

Damn, I think my chimney sees less smoke than you do. Sheesh!

What do you usually smoke?

 

[bersekero]

When I smoke 8 bowls that usually means that I have a pipe lit all day. Since I practiced slow smoking my small pipes last an hour and the large ones a couple of hours. So I cannot smoke 15 bowls despite how much I want to.

 

[bersekero]

Other than a coloring experiment I'm doing with a meerschaum pipe my daughter bought for me, I got rid of all of my former pipes and switched to RYO.

What is RYO?

 

[Waning Embers]

What is RYO?

Roll your own. Cigarettes that you make yourself.

 

[bersekero]

I always believed that the pipe is the final stage of a smoker, the ultimate one. First come the regular cigarettes, then the roll-your-own, and in recent years vaping. Quite a few people also enjoy chewing tobacco and cigars, but cigars are extremely expensive, so the last and most perfect stage is the pipe.
Having gone through all the stages, I ended up a year ago with the pipe, and I am extremely excited, mainly with the quality tobaccos and certainly with the pipes themselves and the ritual, so I don’t think I’ll ever go back.
So it surprises me that you returned to roll-your-own cigarettes, but of course I fully respect it
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