How many do you and how do you feel about that????

clearlysuspect

So, as many of you have discovered in my recent posts, I'm relatively new to the cigar world. I've always enjoyed a good cigar but I haven't dedicated time toward learning about cigars and taking my enjoyment to a new level. In the past I have smoke cigarettes, a nasty habit that I have managed to kick, for the most part, over the course of the last year. I do enjoy a cigarette from time to time and I don't kick myself for it as I'm incredibly proud of the massive cut back that I have achieve in recent past. My wife has always disagreed with my smoking and I don't blame her. I've managed to convince her that my newfound joy in cigars is much better than my daily habit of cigarettes and we have managed to agree on a number of 1 cigar per week. This is a number I'd like to see increase! I started to do some research and found one article saying that cigars are just as bad if not worse that cigarettes, http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/cigars.htm, but I then I got to the point where it said that their case study was based on 1500 cigar smoking men where "Most of them smoked less than 5 cigars a day." This study definately does not apply to me as I don't even smoke 5 in a month at this point let alone 5 in a day. So my question to all of you is, how many cigars do you enjoy in a day/week/month? How did you come to this number? How do you feel about your health? What physical or scientific evidence do you have that cigars have improved or impaired your health?

ilikebigbutts-cigarbutts

Well im goin off just pur bullsh** but lets take a robusto for example. Lets say its 5 times biiger than a cigarette. Now u dont inhale the smoke but u have all that extra smoke going thru your mouth and lets say your nose, but its all natural unlike cigarette smoke. At what point does it catch up to equal strwngth of carcinagens as cigarettes since its more tobacco versus less tobacco but more chemicals. To me natural is a little safer. But you here of both sides somwhere along the lines of smoking til they are 99 years old without side effects (cancer),. So in all reality you have to see what is your family history of cancer to see what is favorable in your future

kuzi16

clearlysuspect

4bob4

I probably smoke once a week sometimes less sometimes more depending on what I have going on. Some weeks I don't smoke at all but if I'm at my friend's cigar bar hanging out with him I could easily smoke 3 in a night. My biggest issue is finding time to smoke. I can't do it inside (choose not to) and I just don't have half to one and a half hours to dedicate to smoking. I was actually going to ask the other day and it kind of piggy backs on this question, when do you guys find time to smoke?

Krieg

I maybe smoke 1 or 2 a week. And sometimes I don't have time to smoke any.

blustar4life

I have 4-6 cigars a week; all depending on the weather since i smoke outdoors. this number can change weekly due to outside commitments or unforeseen circumstances. usually I smoke in the evenings to just relax and enjoy the outdoors. Weekends I sometimes have one in the morning w/ my morning coffee.

rwheelwright

It all depends. Yesterday I had one. MOnday I had two. Saturday and Sunday I had one. Friday I think I had two but cant remember. Today I will have one normal size and maybe a smaller one. This Saturday I will probably have 4 - 5.

clearlysuspect

I appreciate all of your responses, but most of you have elected to only answer the first question. I'm a glutton and if I don't know how to derive a proper amount of cigars to consume in a set amount of time, I'll simply go overboard with it. Does anyone have a response for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th question? Thank you to those who have answered these questions already!

xmacro

clearlysuspect

Krieg

jlmarta

Goldy

I had similar questions when I started so I researched this a bit and found a journal article from some hospital (Mayo maybe) that compared cancer rates for nose, throat, mouth and lungs between non smokers and cigar users who average 1-2 cigars per day and inhale. The result was that people who smoke cigars at that rate double their chance of getting cancer when compared to a non smoker. At first I thought that was a lot but when you think how small the odds are of a non smoker getting that type of cancer its really not that bad. Double .001% is still only .002% That being said, I only have 1-2 a week in the summer and ever fewer in the long winters.