I love 'em, but I'm sick of 'em!

[JohnS]

During our recent Sydney FoH Get Together I was asked what I was smoking by @Luca. I replied, "A Partagas Shorts, I love 'em, but I'm sick of 'em!" We had a little chuckle about this, and I found that a few others could relate, on the night, with this scenario. @Luca and I exchanged cigars, which we thoroughly enjoyed, I had an El Rey del Mundo Demi Tasse and he had a San Cristobal de La Habana El Principe. Can you relate to this scenario? It was suggested to me that I needed to go away from these for awhile, and then comeback to them later.

Of course, there may be a 'go-to' cigar that you enjoy that you could never envisage that you'd be sick of. For me, this is the San Cristobal de La Habana El Principe. I am grateful that I was able to share my love of this cigar with another FoH member, and this was graciously reciprocated. "All's well that ends well", as they say!

[rhcolbert]

None yet. Keep on trying new things. 

[SaintMickey®]

My beloved Royal Corona's are starting to irritate me.

[Dmpotocek]

Pyramids. They used to be my go to's but now they just sit in my humidor collecting "plume". It's not that I don't like the blend, so much as I don't enjoy the shape.


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[BuzzArd]

@JohnS I'm having an El Rey demi tasse right now.  Lobe them. Want more!!

[RijkdeGooier]

I guess it happens to all of us at some point.

One too many consecutive Monte#2 put me off for over a year. We are noe happily back together again. 

[maxcjs0101]

Mine would be Quintero Favoritos

[canadianbeaver]

We smoke quite a bit as many here and can totally relate my brother! Perhaps my shortlist would include

- RyJ Caz; Monte 2; Almost any Partagas except 898; 

We do not own anything Bolivar except for deep in the tank. Maybe we should shake up a bit and stop being so stubborn?

[Luca]

I agree John!! I had the same experience with the Montecristo Petit Edmundo. I loved them and smoked them often. Which then resulted in me not enjoying them as much as usual. Great smoke and I have taken a little break from them now. About to buy a box of Edmundos soon though... It's been a year!!

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[David88]

I fully understand the partagas short burn out. I think they're a pretty dependable but one trick cigar. They're good, but I'm never surprised by what they deliver. I'm taking a bit of a break from them and trying to avoid taking anything from the same box twice in a row

[99call]

I don't smoke as often as it sounds like you guys do. Maybe 3-5 cigars a week. In the past I have smoked up to 12-14 cigars a week, and sometimes I did find myself lighting up, on auto pilot, and probably an activity more associated to addiction. 

I know 99% of cigar smokers refuse their is any aspect of nicotine addiction to the rhyme and reason of why they smoke, but could being fed up with some of these short format cigars be, your actually smoking out of necessity, instead of desire?. The only reason I ask, is back when I smoked more. I would pick an "old faithful" cheap cigar like a short or a JPL cazadore, and I found myself sometimes irritated that I would either be smoking something different, or not smoking at all.

[PigFish]

...interesting read folks.

I suppose I am a bit different, seeing that I don't expect nor believe that two cigars are exactly the same. Monotony therefore only exists in bad cigars. On one hand then I can accept 'cigar fatigue' and then on another, reject it completely. Cigar fatigue is more like smoking 16 cigars in a day...

A good or great cigar is an 'entertaining' cigar. Boring and monotonous are symptoms of average, below average and lousy cigars!

I would say that one might objectively look at what one is smoking and try performing an objective review of the cigar. Look at it like you were asked to criticize it by a friend... Perhaps you might find that your usual standby is simply a mediocre cigar...! Perhaps you are not bored with it, as much as you have fallen prey to Cuban cigar quality, in that the ones you are smoking, the vintage, the box etc., are simply substandard cigars...

-the Pig

[rhcolbert]

1 minute ago, SenorPerfecto said:

Agree! I like the concept, and I think I *used* to like the mouth feel -- but now I find them to be actually very difficult to smoke because they do not sit in the mouth the way I'd like. A 109 is fine. But pyramids and torpedos are no longer my jam.

I might 3rd this. Even when I only had access to NCS, it was my go to size. 

I think I've only got a box of RyJ beli in the humi.  Got into lanceros for a bit and now stay between 40-48/9 max. 

[Dmpotocek]

I might 3rd this. Even when I only had access to NCS, it was my go to size. 

I think I've only got a box of RyJ beli in the humi.  Got into lanceros for a bit and now stay between 40-48/9 max. 

I also usually have to make a second cut about 2/3 through because the head gets all closed up


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[BonVivant]

“I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty.”
― Lily Bollinger House of Bollinger Champagne

[dflan82]

Thumbs up on the topic, John.

While I don't have any at the moment (I smoke a wide variety and the winter months drastically cut back my consumption), about a year ago I was blowing through a box of Bolivar Royal Coronas to the point that they were just not doing it for me anymore. Tried one again recently from the same box and enjoyed it. Maybe it was the time away...maybe the added age.

Interesting to read those that are off of the Belicoso/Pyramid/Torpedeo style cigars. To me, if the flavors are there and I'm not bothered by construction/burn issues then I've got no complaints regardless of shape.

[kuma]

Stopped  smoking P. Shorts, PLPCs, anything Bolivar, Monty. #4's, Q. D'Orsy coronas, recently because I think

the 2016 smokes need more time down and I can't sit on my hands and let them age further.

I guess I just got tired of smoking the 1 year or less cigars do to and wishing I could receive

the so called "taste factors; cafe cream, peanuts, mash potatoes, caramel, cherries, toasted almond, snickers

etc, etc,.  Wish I could say that I could taste what my brother and sisters taste but alas there have only

been a few times where a CC cigar really, really went into a taste overdrive where I could

id certain flavors.  I'm not blaming the CC's because I know they are the best product out there.

Sure I could buy aged smokes which I have done to a limited degree but that gets costly.

I have some smokes (siglo II's, Ramon Allones SS's, Trindad Fundies, HDM Du Prince, Double

Coronas, Des Dieux all from around 2014 but I don't dare want to take a chance smoking them

for fear I'll be wasting them without tasting the (cream coconuts...) because they needed to age longer.

Good topic mates.........

 

[boilers183]

Connie 1s are the only stick I've experienced this with. I smoked them about ten times in a row, and then went almost a year without having another