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Lucky Bum
Last Cigarette?
Mine was twentyone and one half years ago and I dont miss them at all. Gained fifty plus pounds but I can work with that. I was smoking several packs (more than that) per day. At the time they were a litte over $2 a pack, now they’re $6 to $8
Don’t wait for the storm to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.
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Royal Bum
@AlanS
That's great Alan!
I've quit and started again several times. Making up my mind to quit again for good. I find it difficult because they're so quick. Love my cigars but you need at least 45 min to an hour to smoke and enjoy them. Maybe picking up the pipe may help with that. Plus I'm going to get my ass back in the gym so that I can prevent the weight gain.
But again congrats on giving up and maintaining not smoking cigarettes any more. You've got it beat 21yrs strong and continuing!!
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Never really got into the cigarette habit even though I used to smoke cloves for a year or two. Cigars and pipes just do "it" for me and make me feel better when I just sit and contemplate life. I bet I've saved thousands of dollars in non-therapy as 2 hours with a good cigar and whisky tends to make life easier to deal with.
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Royal Bum

Originally Posted by
FidelCastro
Never really got into the cigarette habit even though I used to smoke cloves for a year or two. Cigars and pipes just do "it" for me and make me feel better when I just sit and contemplate life. I bet I've saved thousands of dollars in non-therapy as 2 hours with a good cigar and whisky tends to make life easier to deal with.
Amen!!
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@AlanS
Cigarettes are going for $13/pack here in lovely NYC!
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Originally Posted by
Brimy
Cigarettes are going for $13/pack here in lovely NYC!
That right there is reason enough to quit!
My last cigarette was Saturday. I smoke about one cigarette a month 
Mrs. Bruck likes my hand-rolled pipe tobacco fags - she usually has one in the evening. I'll have one once in a while. They're quite good, and not subject to rapacious taxation.
You oughta know not to stand by the window, somebody see you up there.
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Indeed so Most indeededly
Pretty sure up here in the land of taxes they're somewhere in the mid to high teens. I quit about 10 years ago and it was 12-13 a pack then. I was only ever about half a pack a day at my worst. Though I have to admit, while I don't get much cravings for them, getting in the car for a long drive I find myself thinking how great a pack would be. Something about a road trip and a pack of smokes...
"If we never did anything we shouldn't, we'd never feel good about the things we should."
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days, before you've actually left them."
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Golf Course Bum
Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......
No cigar until you get a par - birdie if it's a scramble !
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Originally Posted by
WNYTONY
Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......
I used to chew on long trips but when I went around a sharp curve and spilled the contents of my travel spittoon ....that pretty much did it for me. Now I occasionally chew but only outside. My longest "launch" is 23 feet with no wind.
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Royal Bum

Originally Posted by
WNYTONY
Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......
I have never tried chew, mainly because I'm almost certain I would like it.
I sometimes chew on my cigar for a while before lighting (never with a high end cigar). I think I would probably enjoy it, and I don't half-ass anything so I'd end up doing it more and more.
Then the wife wouldn't want to smooch on me and we can't be having that.
Check out my Youtube channel, Razorback Piper Guy if you like that sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDM...i44pRZ4AP-_1OA
If heaven has no cigars, I shall not go there. - Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
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18 minutes ago was my last cig
RIP Don DeBusk, I miss you more than you’ll ever know my good friend.
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