How Many Times a Day can You Smoke a Pipe

[shanez]

I can only speak for myself here.

I average about an hour per bowl. There are 24 hours in a day but I sleep 8 of them. That leaves 16 hours available. I'll subtract an hour for things like meals, etc.

That's a maximum of 15 bowls for me.

That's in theory.

In reality I sometimes go a week or two without smoking at all but sometimes I go through 5-10 bowls over the course of a weekend.

Considering the above, it's clear that as long as you're not damaging the pipe you can smoke 1 pipe however much you feel like smoking.

There really is no rule or metric that applies.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

That one bowl and don’t smoke it again till tomorrow was a con from the industry to get people to buy multiple pipes learned that from a wise man here.

It also helps justify the number of pipes we accumulate.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Not enough, if I'm honest.
I work in ship construction in Sk, damn. All these guys in the yard want to do is smoke cigarettes.

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I like it!

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Me? not near enough.
I manage half a bowl in the morning, as I drive through the shipyard to where the vessels are berthed. Then finish it on my drive back to the office, just befor lunch.
I'm in ship construction. Despite me not working in ships any more, just inspecting and overseeing, I do not get a whole lot of time to smoke my pipe in the daytime.
But when I get home......

 

[Sailingtiger]

So we have two people on this thread that are or have been at sea. As a sailor I learnt you cannot sail and pipe, well you can if you like lost pipes and embers everywhere. Drop anchor and pipe, or better yet in the evening at anchor. Nothing better.
Fair winds

 

[anotherbob]

over smoking a pipe can make it get nasty (sour). If you clean it and make sure it's dry before lighting up again the worst thing that might happen is you need to deep clean it (well do more then run a cleaner and a quick wipe). So basically the worst thing that could happen is annoying not disaster.

 

[cigrmaster]

If you listen to me you have issues. I never smoke the same pipe more than once in a day. I never smoke a blend more than once in a day. I will let you figure out the math depending on how many smokes you get in a day. I clean the piss out of my pipe when it has cooled down and then let it rest a day or two.
I would consider myself a high functioning Rain Man when it comes to my pipe life.

Funny thing is I treated my pool cues the exact same way. I owned a pool hall for 20 years. I had custom made shafts because I was 6'4" back then. I would make the shafts feel like you were sliding silk between your fingers. The shape of my tips had to be perfect. The type of tips I preferred were expensive. I had a burnisher for the shaft of my sticks, plus I would use 1500 grit on the shafts as well. You couldn't imagine that a pool cue could slide through your fingers when I was done doing up a cue. I had a special cue that I would break the balls with and it also broke down into a jump stick which I was pretty killer with.
I never broke the balls with my shooting stick as the force I used could mess up the joint in my cue. The last cue I bought which was around 1999 or so was a Schon SL 21. At the time it sold for around 2500.00, but as a pool hall owner I got a deal. I still own the sticks and the hand tooled leather case.

 

[JOHN72]

If I have a day off, no work. I may end the day smoking 5 or 6 pipes. On work days, when I get home, and depending on my mood or how tired I am, one or two pipes, or a cigarette. If my sister-in-law comes on vacation, and stays overnight in my smoker's cave, I might smoke a wet skunk, in some park in town.

 

[Jack the ripper]

As long as you are not engaged in nefarious or illegal activities, as many as your wife will allow!

 

[PipeIT]

If I have a day off, no work. I may end the day smoking 5 or 6 pipes. On work days, when I get home, and depending on my mood or how tired I am, one or two pipes, or a cigarette. If my sister-in-law comes on vacation, and stays overnight in my smoker's cave, I might smoke a wet skunk, in some park in town.

Is this some Spanish slang John? ?

Smoke a wet skunk? LOL ?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I had wondered the same.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

There aren't any skunks in Spain.

 

[JOHN72]

Is this some Spanish slang John? ?

Smoke a wet skunk? LOL ?

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hahahahahaha. Well, not exactly, it's like saying, I get out of the way, before I get angrier, hahahahahahahah, and go to the park to talk to myself. I might be the only one on the planet, who would say this phrase? hahahahahahahahah

 

[El Capitán]

I smoke between 3-6 bowls a day. After three I let my pipe cool and give it a basic clean with a scraper and pipe cleaner.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

Personally, I smoke 1 or 2 bowls a day. Sometimes, usually with new pipes (to me they’re new anyway) I might smoke that pipe a couple of times a day for a few days, then not touch it for a week or two.
My Grandad had one pipe at a time and he smoked the knickers off that, and his pipe lasted him 10 or so years each one so there isn’t a rule as such; whatever works for you.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

As many as my schedule permits. At the least, 4 bowls. Usually closer to 8. More on weekends

 

[AJL67]

42 - the answer to the ultimate question.

 

[winton]

I used to smoke one bowl a day. But now, I have to cut back. I still enjoy tobacco, but it makes me woozy.

 

[Pipeoff]

Title edited. See Rule 9. Capitals!

I have been overindulging in all of these wonderful flavors. My question is how many times a day should I smoke 1 pipe. I work in the offshore industry, and I am at sea for 5 weeks at a time. I bring 3 pipes and rotate them out.

I would be surprised if you were allowed to smoke at all if you worked on an offshore oil drilling rig.

 

[The Clay King]

Depends if you are in an arms race with @JimInks !

@condorlover1 Or a clay pipe smoking competition against me