I think I'm at the half and half point of your story. I hope it ends the same!! Congrats man!
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Good luck! When I quit, I alternated between higher nicotine blends like from the Gawiths, Irish plugs, Royal Yacht, etc., and lighter oriental blends or semi-aros. I was probably smoking 6 or 7 bowls a day though. Now I'm back down to 3 or 4. The pipe is a much more satisfying delivery system than vaping or nicotine gum!
I mix it up. Usually VaPer but sometimes an aro and sometimes something with Kentucky. Often depends what I still have in my pouch!
I'm one of these pipe smokers that usually doesn't have much interest in a bowl until after lunch. I'm the breakfast cook and cat feeder, and observe other routines like bringing in the morning paper and such. When I do smoke early, it's likely burley, to make a rhyme of it. But that's sort of true any time, though I smoke other leaf as well.
PS Luxury navy flake.Coffee with Sugar In The Raw and half and half.Best part of my day.
I hate saying this, but it's a cigarette after eating a donut and drinking some coffee. I do however switch to a pipe shortly thereafter and it's normally something burley like Pegasus.
Depends on when I get up, I might get a morning smoke. Typically, I pick a pipe first and see what I want to smoke from the rotation. Today was University Flake in Peterson SH Hansom. Hansom was perfect for the flake. Had very relaxing two hours of smoke with only three relights. Satisfying. As usual, diet Pepsi wild cherry was the drink. Had coffee while waiting for the flake to dry.
If it’s a work morning, my first smoke is generally only 15-20 minutes. Lately it’s been OJK or 5 Brothers right off the bat, with some coffee with a splash of cream.
If it’s a lazy morning, I like a good VaPer flake like Escudo or LNF...something that’s gonna burn for an hour or so. Once and a while, I’ll have some Chelsea Morning or Squadron Leader, though, as they go so well with coffee.
If it’s a lazy morning, I like a good VaPer flake like Escudo or LNF...something that’s gonna burn for an hour or so. Once and a while, I’ll have some Chelsea Morning or Squadron Leader, though, as they go so well with coffee.
I'm still on the cigs too...trying so hard to let them go. The morning may be the hardest. But I find if I allow myself one in the morning I can go the rest of the day on the pipe.
I try to limit my cigarette smoking to one after each meal because that's when I crave one the most.
Hard to beat Nording (McClelland) Labrador with coffee. That is my go to for the rare occurrence of a morning smoke. Unfortunately that tobacco is no more. My stash will be gone in time.
I don’t often get a chance to smoke a pipe in the morning - but if I do, any blend tastes great!
There are three blends with the word “Morning” in their name, and I have pretty much only enjoyed them if I smoked them in the morning.
1. Dunhill Early Morning Pipe
2, GLP Chelsea Morning
3. C&D Morning Drive
There are three blends with the word “Morning” in their name, and I have pretty much only enjoyed them if I smoked them in the morning.
1. Dunhill Early Morning Pipe
2, GLP Chelsea Morning
3. C&D Morning Drive
I love a quiet Saturday morning with coffee and a pipe. I enjoy many different tobaccos for this occasion. I’ve really enjoyed Balkan Supreme with coffee.
Also use French Press and good fresh coffee.
Also use French Press and good fresh coffee.
I have recently discovered by accident that I prefer Latakia first thing. If I get the opportunity to be out of the whare while it is still crisp, I will load a small bowl up with Sutliff Voodoo Queen or F&K Lancer Slices
Edit: I should also note that I drink Yerba mate when I get up, sometimes even a litre before breakfast. This would no doubt influence my palette differently to coffee etc.
Edit: I should also note that I drink Yerba mate when I get up, sometimes even a litre before breakfast. This would no doubt influence my palette differently to coffee etc.
Just by chance I had Dreams of Kaddath this morning. It's one of my favs. I worked well for breakfast. Didnt think it would.
I prefer a mild english or aro when i smoke in the morning. VaPers or burley blends not so much. I think its because i find them too “cigarettey”.
Being a reformed cigarette smoker, I crave nicotine when I wake up, and I rely on a few strong blends to get me going. The dark flakes by the Gawiths (Dark Flake, 1792, etc,) are my usual choice but I also rotate in some JackKnife and HH Bold Kentucky.
I really like GLP Chelsea Morning and think it would make a superb first of the day smoke, but it doesn't have enough nicotine to be a morning smoke for me, and I usually crave something fuller in flavor as the day goes on. So my tin will probably last me quite a long time.
I really like GLP Chelsea Morning and think it would make a superb first of the day smoke, but it doesn't have enough nicotine to be a morning smoke for me, and I usually crave something fuller in flavor as the day goes on. So my tin will probably last me quite a long time.
Everyone talks about how well lat pairs with coffee, and it does! But I love Yerba as well and it seems to bring out the best qualities in Orientals in general, as well as dark VAs. Have you noticed the fleeting raspberry flavor weaving in and out of Voodoo Queen?
This is interesting. So normally I am not a morning smoker. It’s only because of the lockdown that I have the opportunity to do so. I have recently noticed something like a Black Forest gateaux flavour - could be the raspberry - when smoking after Yerba. voodoo queen and amphora burley have been my last two morning smokes where this happened as almost a ghost/after taste. I got a smooth mocha flavour the slices in voodoo queen in this mornings bowl of newminster 403. Again, after Yerba but in a different pipe.
I can imagine orientals pairing well. Earlier in the week I tried some drama reserve first thing and it was lovely. orientals remind me of green/woody herbs and spices that are still growing. Yerba is a Smoked holy plant, and I love the earthiness that comes when you drink it with the stems and branches included. Quite similar in this regard.
I will try a dark VA next.
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