Anyone only smoked cigars?

[HabanoSy]

I just need to catch a whiff of someone else enjoying a good cigar and thats me off to join in.

Here, here...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[Gordonbcb]

Only ever cigars for me. Never had the desire to smoke cigarettes - the smell of the smoke just doesn't do it for me. Cigars however are a whole other matter. I just need to catch a whiff of someone else enjoying a good cigar and thats me off to join in.

And in answer to Jason, it's def a hobby for me, and a very pleasurable one at that.

[Soulmanure]

I quit cigarettes, though I loved them quite a bit. Then I took up cigars after a cuban epiphany down in Merida.

The other day I had a cigarette in my favorite setting--at a bar, with friends, and well into a nice buzz. It was horrible--I felt like I was sucking on a toothpick sized muffler. It was clear that I'd made the full transition.

I now no longer look longingly upon a pack of cigarettes. Other people's cigar stashes, now that's another story...

[rollzst]

I also smoke cigarettes as well as cigars but ive been working on quitting the fags, im down to just a couple a day now. Much prefer cigars though!

[Jason]

It depends. Cigar smoking can be an habit too - but if you only smoke a few a week or month - then it's a pleasure. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life - and so far only tried mini cigars which are just disgusting if you ask me. I still need a try a decent cigar to see if it's for me - but I would only smoke a few a month or so anway (maybe not even that!).

You have to remember, cigars still contain some of the toxic agents like ammonia, carbon monoxide ect. (also contains nicotin, too) - just that cigarettes have added chemicals.

So the question is: Is Cigar smoking an hobby an habit or an addiction for you?

• Addiction – Mental and/or physical dependency beyond a person's control.
  
  
• Habit – Recurrent pattern of behavior ingrained as the result of frequent repetition.
  
  
• Hobby – Activity or pastime done for pleasure.

[LukeBird]

Yep, a cigar smoker through and through here.
No cigarettes for me!

[MaledettoToscano]

I started with cigarillos (the Che ones, to impress the loose leftie female-students in college ), he occasional wacky baccy thrown in for good mesure and started smokeing a few cigarettes during my PhD times, but never got the bug (3-4 per day most).

After that I tried cigars and the pipe. I liked both, but the pipe is a bit too fussy for me, so stuck with cigars from 7 years back though I have to admit I only smoked 1-2 a month... untill I found this forum. Now I smoke at least 3-4 a week and my credi card needs to be shredded.... may you be damned!!

[daverave999]

I started smoking cigarettes when I was about 13 and smoked about 20 a day. I slowed down slightly after going on the rollies and then a month or two into discovering cigars (about a year ago) I just stopped bothering to smoke fags completely. Very occasionally I'll have one, and I went straight back to 20 a day when I went on holiday for a week, but then stopped again when I came back. I do find the smoke of ready-made cigarettes unpleasant now.

[pdgray.uk]

Just cigars for me too. Luckily cubans. Enjoying them greatly for 2 years now.

[pch050]

smoked cigs for 10 yrs but quit cigs due when I found cigars!!! Now back to 1 or 2 cigs a day as the winter is really cold in Europe!

[tippexx]

I havn't smoked a cigarette to some twenty odd years. But was pretty bad before that. Smoked Hamlets and such (with the odd Habanos from time to time) till about half-way through last year. Still smoke Cohiba mini's, but more as a time and cold thing rather than for any preference reasons.

[Big J]

Never smoked cigarettes...

Just 100% fine puros...

Cheers, HabanoSy

Ditto that HabanoSy!

[Andy]

Never smoked cigarettes although my wife does. I don't like the smell or the addictive habit. Cigars are very different they smell and taste wonderful and you choose when you want to enjoy one. Only started cigar smoking last summer whilst on holiday and am loving the smoking, the collecting/hoarding nature of building a collection and learning all aspects of cigars do's and don't from you guys. Thanks Andy

[Simon-JG-hr]

I reckon it must have been hard for you guys who never smoked cigs to get used to the smell of the Big Stick, no?

Not really. Or at least not in my case. I have never liked the smell of cigarettes, however, have always loved the aroma of a cigar. My first cigar 'experiece' was at a rugby match; a couple of old Welsh guys behind us had them on the go for the whole three hours we were stood in the Shed at Kingsholm. I must have been about nine years old and, despite choking for about the next fortnight, I thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful smell (what a change from the bland, stale smell of a cigarette).

[mackem keith]

interesting post this guys ive done my newbie meet and greet so forgive me if im jumping in at the deep end.
in all honestly ive never smoked cigarettes but have however smoked habanos for prob 10 years, just as a general consensus because up in my neck of the woods friends and family seem to see me a a bit of a minority being a cigar fanatic and always say the same thing to me when they discover my cigar passion which is 'how did you come to smoke cigars and never cigarettes' my response is usually along the lines of cigars and cigarettes are just a totally different ball game smoking cigars just cannot be compared to smoking cigarettes, which generally provokes uproar in myself being labelled hypocritical for slating cigarette smokers. i suppose my conclusion being is am i wrong to slate cigarette smokers when i myself am a smoker albeit cuban cigars....