rc, I must confess I'm old school. I retired several years ago and now I pretty much have my pipe handy all the time. I'll smoke it a bit and then let it go out, them smoke up the last of the bowl. That goes on all day and into the evening. I seldom smoke a bowl from start to finish, It's more like I make my way through it over time and then load it again. I first smoked a pipe back in the early sixties ( well I already gave it away when I said I had retired!) That's how all the old timers did back then it so I always thought that was the way you smoked a pipe. As I think back I can't remember some of them without a pipe hanging out of their face. They would puff a little bit, stop, and a little later fire it up again and smoke a little more.