Simplicity of a Cigar?

[Colt45]

Finally, after days of cold and rain, yesterday with a break in the weather I smoked my last Punch RS11 - a good cigar (I don't love them, I

don't hate them). After a bit I put down the magazine I'd been reading, and with the sun on my face, I thought a little about the cigar - how

the tobacco is grown and cared for, how it's made, all the people along the way. Not deep thought, just a little deference.

The "Special Occasion" thread crossed my mind, and in thinking about it, I guess my responses would have to be qualified by the context of my

personal smoking habits. I don't smoke every day, and I don't smoke multiple cigars in a day (normally), so I guess it's probably easier for me

to look at the question the way I do.

Perhaps I could have chosen a cigar I might have enjoyed a little more, but at that moment, I don't think I could have chosen a cigar which would

have made this simple occasion any more "special".

Enjoy your cigars everybody

[Ginseng]

with the sun on my face

Enjoy your cigars everybody

Sigh. Rainy and sleeting here today.

Lovely post, Ross. I agree, sometimes the experience is more than the sum of its parts, physicality and history, included.

Wilkey

[PigFish]

I think you have really hit it Ross.

I have been known to smoke several cigars a day. Each time was usually personal time. Time on the job where I was forced to do computer or paperwork, time commuting where I was thinking of work and my cigar, time with the wife or alone thinking of the day and my cigar. I don't have 'yard gars.' I have tried it, and the concept simply does not fit the essence of cigar; not for me at least. Even building humidors or working on my humidity products "gadgets" appears to be incomparable with cigar smoking for me. Many activities are incompatible with my smoking. I am thankful that good conversation is not one of them!

For me then, each time I smoke a cigar it is a special occasion. No, I have not smoked every Partagas Seleccion Privada that I own... yet, but they are being rationed and not really saved. Cigars, while I have ostensibly smoked them habitually, they are anything but. They are not, nor have they ever been a habit. They are intentional, personal celebrations of my ability to take some time for myself. They are hedonistic and frankly when they are not, when they are routine, a habit, I will no longer smoke them.

Nice thread my friend. -Ray

[Stalebread]

(snip)

Perhaps I could have chosen a cigar I might have enjoyed a little more, but at that moment, I don't think I could have chosen a cigar which would

have made this simple occasion any more "special".

Enjoy your cigars everybody

Well said.

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[Stalebread]

(snip)

Cigars, while I have ostensibly smoked them habitually, they are anything but. They are not, nor have they ever been a habit. They are intentional, personal celebrations of my ability to take some time for myself. They are hedonistic and frankly when they are not, when they are routine, a habit, I will no longer smoke them.

Nice thread my friend. -Ray

Nice distinction, Ray, between habitually and habit.

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[Rushman]

I think you have really hit it Ross.

I have been known to smoke several cigars a day. Each time was usually personal time. Time on the job where I was forced to do computer or paperwork, time commuting where I was thinking of work and my cigar, time with the wife or alone thinking of the day and my cigar. I don't have 'yard gars.' I have tried it, and the concept simply does not fit the essence of cigar; not for me at least. Even building humidors or working on my humidity products "gadgets" appears to be incomparable with cigar smoking for me. Many activities are incompatible with my smoking. I am thankful that good conversation is not one of them!

For me then, each time I smoke a cigar it is a special occasion. No, I have not smoked every Partagas Seleccion Privada that I own... yet, but they are being rationed and not really saved. Cigars, while I have ostensibly smoked them habitually, they are anything but. They are not, nor have they ever been a habit. They are intentional, personal celebrations of my ability to take some time for myself. They are hedonistic and frankly when they are not, when they are routine, a habit, I will no longer smoke them.

Nice thread my friend. -Ray

Well put

[riazp]

very well Ross and Ray. I defenitly enjoy my down time with a cigar. When I feel that I "need" a cigar its more my mind telling me I need some down time and not my body telling me i need nicotine. that 45 to 90 mins smoking a cigar is always what the doctor ordered after a day or week of work.

[mazolaman]

Great point,Colt.

I chug on a cigar from time to time during my working day,and enjoy a moments peace.

But sometimes,everything is just right,and with a decent cigar there is a little bit of paradise to be had.

The miserable weather before almost makes the good day even better.

[laficion]

The "Special Occasion" thread crossed my mind, and in thinking about it, I guess my responses would have to be qualified by the context of my

personal smoking habits. I don't smoke every day, and I don't smoke multiple cigars in a day (normally), so I guess it's probably easier for me

to look at the question the way I do.

Great subject to meditate on Ross.

I do smoke everyday,

I do smoke multiple cigars in a day,

So, I'm positively sure that the "Special Occasion" is not any harder for me.

My cigars are not a habit, they are important moments of my day ,

Morning 1st third cigar ,

Afternoon 2nd third cigar,

Evening final third cigar.

Mark Twain's cigar was an obsession & a habit, W. Churchill's was a passion.

For me, it's how you live with your cigar that makes it one or the other.

It should always be an Epicurean delight,never just something you do out of indifference.

Just my 2 Euros worth.