Longest Break You've Taken from the Pipe

[anotherbob]

just had a flu that was terrible.

I am feeling much better now. Though still not up to my usual level of energy.

 

[anotherbob]

I'm ten months into the year of fully oxigenated blood I promised my heart after flat lining a few days after triple bypass surgery back in June. This June I'll reassess my position. I like the additional moneys in my pocket but, I do miss the nicotine. We'll see how tough, and/or stupid I might be this June.

Wow sometimes you think someone is delightfully grumpy then you find out what they're going through and you think wow they must be some kind of mystical monk to be so chill. Or in other words I feel your pain and am actually amazed by how chill you seem about it.

 

[Dandy Pipesmoker]

Whenever I go to Cuba. But then I smoke Havana cigars all day, so...

 

[hauntedmyst]

Longest for me is about 5 years.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Longest for me is about 5 years.

Did you enjoy coming back to it?

 

[warren]

Delightfully grumpy! I'll answer to that with a smile. I like it. Nothing to bet bent out of shape over. I abused my body for 70 years, living large usually results in consequences, self-induced, which aren't so much fun. Still, life isn't bad. Actually life is damned good compared for some of the poor souls here judging from how apparently negative they perceive their lives to be.

 

[sablebrush52]

No irritable withdrawal symptoms on vacation? You can always get a cigar I guess if it gets bad.

No serious additional irritability. Seems I'm irritable enough as it is.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I left pipes for about 12 years. I know, dumb. The first smoke back was marvelous and most since. Which is why my cigars are resting in their humidors and rarely are touched.

 

[bullet08]

Three days. Didn't feel like drying the tobacco.

 

[docrameous]

Started last May, so I have been smoking as long as the breaks of others! My longest break so far, 2 1/2 weeks due to business travel.

 

[cigrmaster]

Warren , I had no idea you were this kind of sick and couldn't smoke your pipes. It is nice to hear you are on the road to recovery.

My prickness ( which I totally appreciate, would maybe have gotten banned.

 

[adui]

? Leme see, I smoked a pipe in the mid to late 90's, but put it down well before my youngest daughter was born in 1999. I picked it back up in around may or so of 2019.. So more than 20 years! ?

 

[Smoked69]

About 20 years. I was on a cigar kick till my son in law bought me a couple of pipes and a few tins of Dunhil for my birthday a few years back. Haven't smoked a cigar since. Had forgotten how much i enjoyed it.

 

[marlinspike]

17 years. I got back into puffing about a couple of years ago (and still end up smoking a pipe pretty much on the QT because I get tired of the family grousing about it).

 

[davek]

I have been on a break for a while. Don't know how long... a few months or so?

As I am nearing retirement at 65, my intent was to work as many hours as possible at my part time job and as many hours on my home as possible, get all medical done that I can, get estimates on work, yada, yada, full plate.

I was not smoking so as to be functioning at 110% accomplishing things and my intent was to be sitting back with everything done in about 5 months, smoking on my porch.

We are on stay home orders in Ohio now, so I can accomplish nothing. I am *so* tempted to smoke. I am in that idle situation which was my goal for returning to the pipe, but I'm thinking that smoking might lower my immune system. It would not be good to lower it, even a little, right now.

(sigh)

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

I have been on a break for a while. Don't know how long... a few months or so?

As I am nearing retirement at 65, my intent was to work as many hours as possible at my part time job and as many hours on my home as possible, get all medical done that I can, get estimates on work, yada, yada, full plate.

I was not smoking so as to be functioning at 110% accomplishing things and my intent was to be sitting back with everything done in about 5 months, smoking on my porch.

We are on stay home orders in Ohio now, so I can accomplish nothing. I am *so* tempted to smoke. I am in that idle situation which was my goal for returning to the pipe, but I'm thinking that smoking might lower my immune system. It would not be good to lower it, even a little, right now.

(sigh)

Hold titght; similar situation; you are also 'prone' to this so called ailment going around which supposedly beats up the lungs and takes advantage of older immuno-comprimised so from what you say you are better off not. But yes, it's wearing on me too; I'm four months your senior in the hiatus.