Cigarette & Cigar Smoking

[JasnRach]

Hi All,

I am currently a cigarette and a cigar smoker.

So I have a question.

How many of you out there smoke cigarettes and cigars?

I will also say that I am not too far from giving up cigarettes, been too long and would rather spend those $$$ on cigars.

So who did both and gave up and was it alot easier giving up as you were still getting some of the good stuff from the cigars?

Cheers!

[danielmgibbs]

I quit cigarettes 2 years ago and I found it infinitely easier than the million other times I had tried to quit because I had just started enjoying my cuban cigars.

I smoke 1 cigar a day in the evening after dinner with a glass of wine. it is my down time. my relaxation. my escape from a long hard day. Just the knowledge that I could look forward to that little reward in the evening made foregoing a cigarette every 20 minutes so much easier. I am now two years cigarette free and I don't even think about it. it really, honestly never crosses my mind even though I used to smoke a pack a day. In fact I still have about 15 packs from a carton I bought on a business trip to New York sat in one of my drawers at home and I can quite honestly say that I have not once been even remotely tempted!

Do it my friend and you'll never regret it!

[Overproof]

Gave up smoking cigs cold about 6 years ago. Found cigars round 3 years ago. I smoke cigars pretty infrequently, sometimes I'll have 3-4 in one weekend and sometimes one a month. I guess what I'm saying is cigars and the nicoteen in them were never a substitute for the dirty darts.

Piss em off and best of luck...keep your mind and body exercised...for me I found chewing gum and sipping water every time I had a craving really helped...patches etc never worked, for me.

[cigarbreak]

Went cold turkey Oct 11 2010 and like Overproof above i found cigars about a few years later. I basically found myself smoking increasingly more after finishing my post grad and it hit me one night after a close buddy of mine said he quit

for good after rejecting my offer to him for a smoke. That weekend i quit with still a half pack sitting around somewhere.

The only thing that made it helped fend the cravings was substituting the hand to mouth motion with bottled watter while eating hard candy because it simated the drawing motion of the mouth muscles when smoking. Just try to use sugar free candy though lol as i was eating like 7 candies a day i then weened from the candy with chewing gum. Now i'm also smoking one cigar a day and loving it. Best wishes and i hope you overcome the beast!

[Grahamsant]

Still smoking cigarettes at the moment but am trying to give up. Hopefully giving them up will also aid in my dieting and weight loss for the Fat Bastard competition!!! I smoke cigars very infrequently (sadly often less than once a month due to not having the time to chill out and properly enjoy it!) but get the feeling that if I had them a little more often I would be able to give up cigarette smoking a lot easier!

[Heawns]

I did smoke cigarettes for a year or two. Started the journey with cigars somewhere around there as well. 2007-2009

I started using "snus" (oral tobacco), which let me quit cigarettes rather easily. I felt cigars helped with general nicotine cravings. If you manage to not inhale any. It's such a drawn out and generally mild nicotine intoxication. In the same way I found snus to be beneficial in the same way, a more relaxed fix.

Nicotine is very addictive but I have rarely seen anyone get so desperate and wired as cigarette smokers.

I would suggest using a patch, e-cigarette, snus. Cigars might be dubious since you might feel the urge to inhale.

I am no longer addicted to the nicotine for some time now, but I have some fixations. I have for example used the cut off from cigars as oral tobacco, once in a while.

Yea, sipping on water or something probably helps to ease the fixations, I do find myself sipping a lot of water...

[Grahamsant]

Thanks for posting your advice. I did get on really well with a type of e-cigarette before. One of the vapour pipes which are refillable. I'd given up for around 3 months and then i had one little slip up and everything suddenly went out the window and I was back smoking again!!

[JasnRach]

Thanks for all the info guys, the time is near!!

At the start I probably would feel the urge to inhale the cigar hehehe, that would only last one inhale though......

I think one slip up would unglue me as well, that is what happened last time. I have only tried once in 17years, it lasted 6 months.

[Firebender]

I quit cigarettes 2 years ago and I found it infinitely easier than the million other times I had tried to quit because I had just started enjoying my cuban cigars.

I smoke 1 cigar a day in the evening after dinner with a glass of wine. it is my down time. my relaxation. my escape from a long hard day. Just the knowledge that I could look forward to that little reward in the evening made foregoing a cigarette every 20 minutes so much easier. I am now two years cigarette free and I don't even think about it. it really, honestly never crosses my mind even though I used to smoke a pack a day. In fact I still have about 15 packs from a carton I bought on a business trip to New York sat in one of my drawers at home and I can quite honestly say that I have not once been even remotely tempted!

Do it my friend and you'll never regret it!

Very similar experience here. Quit smoking cigarettes few years ago because my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I was smoking cigars before, but only once a while when I was playing golf with a buddy who smoked cigars. Few months after I quit cigarettes. I got into cigars more seriously and found it more enjoyable and relaxing.

I still smoke cigarettes sometimes when I am around people who smoke cigarettes, but I don't enjoy it much and I don't have any craving the next day. Waiting for the right time to smoke that nice cigar is difficult, but because it takes an hour or so to smoke it, I have no choice; which makes the waiting possible.

[mash]

Thanks for all the info guys, the time is near!!

At the start I probably would feel the urge to inhale the cigar hehehe, that would only last one inhale though......

I think one slip up would unglue me as well, that is what happened last time. I have only tried once in 17years, it lasted 6 months.

Don't feel bad. The average cigarette smoker tries to quit 7 times before success. Good luck, terrible habit to keep.

[kgoings]

I quit cigs 14 years ago, my wife still smokes. I have noticed that when I am smoking a cigar, and my wife smoking a cig...the cig smoke smells much better than it normally does. Really weird.

[santela]

I smoke both, but I only go through a pack or two per week, mostly socially, so no big deal. I usually stop smoking in the summer when my mother comes to visit. She hates the smell so I just stop all together. Then I start again after she's gone.

I've only started with cigars quite recently, and they are infinitely better than cigs, just too expensive to enjoy as often, and makes me wanna take a dump almost every time (not kidding, please tell me I'm not the only one).

[JasnRach]

^{hahahaha, it doesn't have that effect on me. Three double espresso's and 5 cigs in the morning reading the news seems to have that effect hahaha}

[JasnRach]

I guess the good cigar smell is improving the cigarette smell. A lot of ex-smokers say that when a fresh cigarette lights up it does smell good!

[mrjon86]

I currently smoke both cigarettes and cigars.

Smoke about 7 to 10 cigs a day and about 1-2 cigars a week. Would love to quit cigs but I just don't know if i can. Tried to quit before, lasted about 3 months before my friends forced me to restart coz I was just too grumpy and a pain haha.

With a baby on the way, I've been cutting down on cigs in hopes of quitting alltogether once the baby comes along.

Well I guess we will just have to see how that goes