Left or Right Sided Smoker

[sablebrush52]

So when you smoke a pipe, do you generally hold it in your left hand and/or clench to the left, or are you a right side smoker? Or do you switch hit?
99% of the time I hold my pipe in my left hand and clench on the left when I clench.

 

[mso489]

I definitely shift the pipe back and forth to give it a freshened exposure to taste buds on one side or the other. I usually light a pipe clenched on the right, but shift it back and forth regularly during a smoke. I'm right handed and apply the match or lighter with my right hand. The other freshener is to sip a beverage. The moistens the mouth and definitely gives the taste a lift.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

Switch holder and clencher here. ::

 

[buroak]

Left side holder and clencher here, too. I really don't know why, but right side smoking just feels off to me.

 

[Chasing Embers]

All lefty here.

 

[aldecaker]

I'm a lefty 99% of the time as well.

 

[aquadoc]

Like MSO, I move it around and use both hands.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Lefty here, although I do try to make a conscious effort to shift it around a bit. But if I'm not thinking it will always be in the left. Of course I am also left handed so that may be why.

 

[prairiedruid]

They call me Lefty.

 

[ashdigger]

I'm left handed so I'm all right.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

I'm left handed so I'm all right.

You are alright. I concur. ::

 

[docwrite]

I'm left dominant ambi- and bi-dexterous--I write, throw, and do a majority of things left handed; I play bass, guitar, other instruments, golf, and do quite a few things right-handed; I switch hit in baseball, play tennis right or left, do a number of things with either hand. However, I am a left holding, left clenching pipe smoker, only switching hands to light with my left hand, then switch back. Same with cigars. I've never smoked cigarettes.

Fascinating, huh?

-doc-
PS--We left handers are the only people in our right minds. (Neuropsychology humour.) -d-

 

[prndl]

Hold with the left and clench with the right.
I usually get most other things bassackards, as well.

 

[dread]

Left side is my normal side, I do move it to the right every once in a while, but only when I'm thinking about it. So 80% left.
Interestingly, I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about this. I'll often switch to the right, then think about why do I prefer my left so much. While I am thinking I invariably move the pipe to the left side subconsciously.

 

[docwrite]

An inordinate number of lefties amongst this thread, the average being about 10% of the population.

Hmmn...
Sorry, a few psychology and psycholinguistics degrees here. Spent a few years researching 'handedness'.

Still, quite a few. Has to do with the right brain and pipe smokers' personalities.

Never mind.

-d-

 

[dread]

I'm right handed, though I am ambidextrous in a lot of things I do. But, I suspect most of the folks who smoke from the left side are right handed, and likewise most of the right side folks are left handed.

 

[jensen]

When I got some new teeths I had to change from the left side to the middle of the mouth and now I sometimes hold the pipe in my left hand when I smoke,which I never did before.

Also,with the new teeths I began to burn the bowl on new pipes.What a mess.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Righty righty holding hand here, but now clenching right only, as a tooth on left side is signaling to lay off.

 

[fitzy]

Right handed but I clench and hold on left.

 

[crashthegrey]

Right handed and I clench in right side and hold with my right hand, except to light, as the match or lighter must also be in the right hand, so I often light clenching. Didn't realize how little I utilize my left side when smoking, odd.