Pipe Chain Smokers?
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, in the weekend, I become a chain-smoker
happy piping
Now that I have retired and sold the ranch, I have nothing but time on my hands. 6 to 8 smokes a day are the norm. I’m still not up to Jim’s numbers but I’m working on it 
I have my days or weeks where I smoke a lot but it’s also largely as a break to get outside and I need something to do instead of just sit. I’m too fidgety to just sit. Then I’ll go back to a few bowls a day. Lots of times I’m starting and stopping same bowl for 10-15 min breaks. Kind of like a cig break. When Covid broke out and I was nervous as hell, I smoked like 8 bowls a day. lol. While tapping my foot endlessly.
If I were more of a dead poet upon reading “ if you come from cigarettes and find yourself chain smoking a pipe you might as well just quit altogether” I would have simply ripped that page out.
I am a nicotine fiend and I’m ok with that if I wasn’t obsessed with tasting all the different blends I could see myself just smoking black rope bowl after bowl till I took the dirt nap…
I am a nicotine fiend and I’m ok with that if I wasn’t obsessed with tasting all the different blends I could see myself just smoking black rope bowl after bowl till I took the dirt nap…
Not me. I usually sip three smallish bowls a day. With sipping that's slightly over three hours of pipe smoking a day. No cigs, no cigars, and no snuff. I'm also a nicotine lightweight.
pipe chain smoker sounds like a derogatory term for newbie roughnecks on an oil rig. 
Keep yer tongs tight!
Keep yer tongs tight!
My dad smoked his pipe from just after breakfast until bedtime, with time out for meals, for fifty years, until age 65, when he quit to take a job on a non-smoking campus. Definitely a chain smoker.
Nah.
One bowl a Day, tops.
Lunchbreak, quick meal then 50 minutes of smoke.
Weekends, one on the porch.
I'm also quite lucky to be immune to a nicotine habit (yeah, was a cig "smoker" for years when younger, but gave it up when I always forgot to smoke anyways), so it feels right to keep the number of bowls down.
One bowl a Day, tops.
Lunchbreak, quick meal then 50 minutes of smoke.
Weekends, one on the porch.
I'm also quite lucky to be immune to a nicotine habit (yeah, was a cig "smoker" for years when younger, but gave it up when I always forgot to smoke anyways), so it feels right to keep the number of bowls down.
I am a more like a broken chain pipe smoker. I am suffering from severe pipus interruptus. From having to take the bus to work and work several hours under a smoking ban, to having to go inside the now smoke free house, when my wife is yelling "dinner is ready"!
Carefull there, thats not a safe contraception method - you might still find yourself aquiring a new pipe before you know it
For me, there have been times where I did smoke my pipe all day, every day. These times tended to be associated with intensive study…. preparing for qualifying exams, thesis/dissertation defenses…. that sort of thing. But at other times there was more of an ebb and flow to consumption rate. Usually the low end would be perhaps three bowlfuls a day and migrating sometimes up to 7-8 on some days…. but typically in the middle ground of that range.
I smoke 3 -5 small bowls a day, but stick to tobacco with strong nicotine levels
Usually 3-6 bowls a day. On the weekends I mix in cigars. While camping it’s usually chain pipes and cigars.
I only smoke one or two bowls a week. Some here smoke in a week what I smoke in a year! I suspect it's a different thing altogether
My pipe smoking varies all the time, depends on what I am doing, usually about 6 bowls a day but take last night, 4 bowls on the trot, so about 10 bowls yesterday, today may be more, or less, breaking a new pipe in so it may be more, then again, a small pipe for a quick one and a large pipe for a long slow one, I just love my pipes and tobaccos. 
