Smoking in the morning

[bluegrassbrian]

Morning pipe with coffee is often the best one of the day. It sets the tone for a tolerable and (sometimes) even enjoyable work day.
On the weekends I often find myself getting out of bed just as early - pipe motivation.

 

[daveinlax]

I usually finish last nights pipe with coffee and the morning news on tv. Very relaxing until the caffeine hits.

 

[shrocks]

Morning pipe and bourbon cream in my coffee is a Saturday and Sunday treat until retirement comes.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

During the week, no time.
Weekends - Love my morning smoke. Many days I work out first thing, thinking that my glycogen reserves are depleted forcing the body to burn fat. Post workout English blend with a Red Bull is the best of the day every single time. EMP for my EMP - I think I am a victim of labeling as this is my go to in the early morning.

 

[TakeThisCobAndStuffIt]

I rarely have a pipe in the mornings, but, since we’re on vacation & I was up before everyone else(dad power move), I had some Bayou Morning. Saw this too, so I may have to start getting up earlier.View attachment 245225

I just watched that same sunrise with a bowl of OGS. Where are you vacationing?

 

[PaulRVA]

I load at-least 2 pipes before bed for the next morning and lay them out along with a cigar to get going. Usually Bayou Morning or Habana Daydream.
I get up and make coffee then have a small cigar or cigarillo first then on to pipes for the rest of the day.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I love grabbing my first cup of coffee, my pipe, and my tobacco, and heading out to the porch to watch the sunrise. In bad or cold weather, I will head to my pipe room, and listen to the radio news with my dogs all waiting on me to finish, so that I will feed them.

It's my time for reflecting and planning my day. I've always been the first to wake up, and I would have it no other way.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

No, sir. But I don't do it if it's an abnormally dry day/night. If I'm concerned about over drying, I'll wait to pack the bowl until morning. Usually the blend is dry enough to light easily but not so dry that it burns too fast or loses flavor. If I'm feeling extremely ambitious, I'll even do a char light the night before.

See also: DGT (Delayed Gratification Technique)

What's this abnormally dry you speak of???

 

[Searock Fan]

Get up, do my morning ablutions, feed the cats, have coffee while watching the news, go upstairs to my office, light up a pipe and check my email. As anyone can see, I lead an exciting life....

 

[jpmcwjr]

Sometimes at first light. More often after a coffee or two, and while walking the dog.

 

[UB 40]

As nicotine addict I need at least a short smoke usually of Virginia in one of my smaller pipes along with a morning cup of instant coffee before breakfast. I might lay down the pipe for breakfast and lighten up again after or reload.

Then I start working as freelancing writer and photographer often to begin with in my office upstairs. Lighting up a pipe there as well. Smoking has nothing to do with relaxing in leisure times for me.

Nothing romantic in pipe smoking, just a habit to get me going.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I'm not a morning person, but work and a kid demand that I get up ahead of when my chronotype would prefer. So I pack a pipe (or two) and get the coffee stuff ready the night before.

I always joke that when I get to the age to naturally wake up early, I will no longer have any need to.

 

[vosBghos]

A big ol bowl of 5 brothers that rotates between a Rossi Lumberman and A Peterson Spigot B42 every other day, lit up while loading the Keurig (French press or pour over on weekends) Those workhorse pipes and baccy go to work with me. On the weekends Solani ABF in Ser Jacopos. Need that initial Nic Kick in the morning then I taper down to Peterson Flake mid-day.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I never thought of packing the night before. You don’t find it drys out too much?

If anything, it usually improves the burn, and sometimes the flavor. This forum has helped me get over my old fear of letting tobacco get too dry.

 

[LeafErikson]

I usually have a morning pipe of Pegasus. If I have a tin I'm working through I'll smoke that as long as it has enough nicotine. Bayou Morning Flake comes to mind.

 

[Milverton1868]

I have a cig first thing in the morning then coffee and breakfast. After breakfast I smoke my pipe.

 

[El Capitán]

I smoke all day long. I'll start smoking after breakfast when I take my dogs out to do their morning constitutional. I'm a Mark Twain style of smoking guy.

 

[spike]

I’m an outlier. I get up at 5:30 a.m., but cannot even look at a pipe before noon.

I make up for that the rest of the day.

 

[BCF]

Every morning on my way to work I light up my pipe. It is my routine, or habit. Typically Granger (we've been working together a long while), or sometimes something else. Today it was Navigator. On weekends, I'll usually wait for after breakfast. And there's always a cup coffee to go with it.

 

[timelord]

Get up, have 1 or more likely 2 espressos... ...pack a pipe and go out for a walk to the bakery for fresh bread. Get back; another expresso whilst the filter coffee is brewing for breakfast (only 'cos that's what Mrs TL drinks to get her day going). Obviously after breakfast another espresso...

Blend for the first smoke? Varies, usually EMP, or whatever English or Balkan I have open.