What motivated you to start smoking pipes? Get off cigarettes, your father smoked pipes, irritate spouse, look cool, etc?
Why did you start pipe smoking
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First, I didn't smoke pipes so as not to imitate my dad. Later I didn't smoke pipes so as not to imitate my professors. As a child, I did the usual sneak smoking of cigarettes, turned green, and never smoked cigarettes much. My first, late wife smoked cigarettes heavily, so I eventually bought a pipe and tobacco, and smoked moderately. Later when my wife quit, I quit to reinforce her effort. After she was gone, I picked it up again when I bought a hand-carved pipe at the state fair, and more regularly when my second wife was in rehab after hip surgery complications, as a way to center myself in the evening when I didn't really want to drink alcohol. When I started with a pipe, I had all the moves down cold, from watching my dad as a kid.
My father's old Dr. Grabow.
I had quit the cigs for over a year and, thru one of my friends, had started on the occasional good cigar. One cold December day, I was rambling thru my closet and found his old whiskey crate still filled with his last treasures. And that's when I found the Grabow.
Curiosity, and a bit of reverance, tells the rest of the tale.
I had quit the cigs for over a year and, thru one of my friends, had started on the occasional good cigar. One cold December day, I was rambling thru my closet and found his old whiskey crate still filled with his last treasures. And that's when I found the Grabow.
Curiosity, and a bit of reverance, tells the rest of the tale.
I bought one box of little cigars from P&C. Months later, they sent me a $50 credit due to some system wide problem they had during the time of my initial purchase. Whatever the problem was, it didn't affect me.
However, I then had to find a way to spend $50, so I got a pipe and tobacco. One might assume that I got over on them, but it was they who got over.
My expenditures with them have long since dwarfed their initial "investment".
However, I then had to find a way to spend $50, so I got a pipe and tobacco. One might assume that I got over on them, but it was they who got over.
My expenditures with them have long since dwarfed their initial "investment".
I honestly couldn't really tell you why I picked it up, maybe because my great grandfather always smoked a pipe and I wish I was older so I could of got to know him better and it's a way to connect with that, maybe because all my favorite movies growing up featured people smoking pipes in them (Alice in wonderland, 101 dalmatians etc) maybe because many people I admire smoked pipes (Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Walt Disney). Maybe because I believe it's a way to call back of by gone era, reminiscent of simpler times. Maybe because I love history and find the history of the pipe and tobacco fascinating. Maybe because I find people who smoke pipes share some common personality traits I find amiable, or a host of other reasons why I may have picked it up. But the one thing I'm sure of is why I keep at it, as I sit on my back porch with a nice Va and a glass of beer, and that's because I enjoy it. I love the flavor(s) that tobacco gives and the humble pipe allows me to sit and ponder questions just like this. I believe it's made me a better man and a better, more thoughtful person. And that's enough for me.
I have always felt drawn towards pipe smoking. Never did it though, until a couple of years ago when I decided to quit smoking cigarettes. So I started, but didn't succeed with quitting the nails until about six weeks ago. The last one was smoked on the night of my wedding after the - well nevermind. Anyway, it all seems to fall into place now.
I was in the Marines, and all noncoms in my company had to take turns manning our BEQ's desk overnight because it was a 24 hour "must answer" thing. And you better not be caught sleeping! :lol:
I mentioned how boring it was to my dad one time when home on leave--he was a pipe smoker---and he said "Well... You've got a birthday coming up. Come with me." And off to his favorite tobacco shop we went.
Carl Ehwa was the store's clerk that day (no, I'm not kidding), and I got set up with two pipes and two cans of tobacco by him.
Never looked back. :D
I mentioned how boring it was to my dad one time when home on leave--he was a pipe smoker---and he said "Well... You've got a birthday coming up. Come with me." And off to his favorite tobacco shop we went.
Carl Ehwa was the store's clerk that day (no, I'm not kidding), and I got set up with two pipes and two cans of tobacco by him.
Never looked back. :D
I started pipe smoking to get off cigarettes, but it didn't work. I still smoke cigarettes, but a lot less, because I enjoy the taste of pipe tobacco a lot more.
I mainly started because I assessed that in the long run, after you buy a pipe and tobacco, and have a few smokes, the cost is much less than constantly buying cigars. Especially in Canada. So essentially, cost effectiveness.
quite smoking cigarettes in 2007, picked up a good cigar per day. Cut that back to a good cigar per week, per month, every few months, etc. Eventually got to the point (career and family, etc) that a whole cigar just took too much time and always felt like too much nicotine, so I decided to give the pipe a try. Only took a few bowls to set me off, and I've had PAD/TAD ever since.
georged, it sounds like you went to Diebel’s. I frequented it a lot in my early piping days.
I was always interested in how the history of tobacco intertwined with the rest of history. Additionally, i had an uncle who was a pipe smoker. I loved the smell and, as a child, a pipe smoker appeared more “intellectual’.
I was always interested in how the history of tobacco intertwined with the rest of history. Additionally, i had an uncle who was a pipe smoker. I loved the smell and, as a child, a pipe smoker appeared more “intellectual’.
When I started smoking I was too young to buy cigarettes legally, but in those socially relaxed days I could buy pipe tobacco by claiming that I was on an errand for my dad -- and they bought it!
Or rather, I did. :lol:
Or rather, I did. :lol:
My overall dislike of everything modern and the movie White Christmas. Cigarettes, to me, are like cheap beer, drank fast and hard to get loaded. The pipe seemed more relaxed and refined, with more of a purpose.
I just always loved the aroma of a lit pipe. I somehow always knew that I would end up a pipe smoker. My main excuse to take the plunge was to quit dipping... a decade later, now I’m dipping and smoking a pipe, however, I much prefer smoking a pipe, so I smoke anytime that I can and dip when I can’t. I certainly don’t even want to think about how much money I’ve spent on tobacco over the years. I still “plan” on giving up the dip but I will never, I mean NEVER give up the pipe.
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