How many of you are regular smokers of cigarettes?

[funnyoldgame]

Was just thinking about this and more to the point if you were going to enjoy a good cigar maybe in the evening, would you put off smoking cigarettes for the day as I was wondering if cigarettes could mask certain flavours of cigars.

Just a thought.

[spirit_of_will]

I ditched the filthy tabs some time before I started smoking cigars. Often got caught out with having a crafty/drunken ciggy but since I've been smoking 1-3 cigars a week I've not felt the urge (drunken or otherwise) to smoke another cig...

[Styler]

I quit smoking nearly 5 years ago and have been enjoying cigars for about 2 years. I was initially concerned that I would become addicted tot he nicotine again and that old habbits would return but thankfully being a slave to cigarettes and enjoying the hobby of cigars have become 2 totally seperate things for me.

[funnyoldgame]

I had given up cigarettes for eight years until my good lady went to Spain to visit her parents. I came out of work one evening, stopped to get some petrol and for the life of me I can't think why, but purchased 5 Hamlet cigars. this was around 4 years ago and have now been back on cigarettes ever since.

I blame her for leaving me home alone!

[Wardjrz]

I really enjoyed smoking cigarettes for about 15 years and when we started to plan our family I decided to stop. I actually stopped smoking cigarettes at noon on 21st January 1997.
I avoided cigars for a long time as I, like others, thought that I would be tempted to go back to cigarettes.

I went to Cuba last year and thought that I really ought to try the local delicacy and have smoked one or two a week since I returned without any thoughts of cigarettes.

For me cigars are an occasional treat to accompany a peaceful hour sat outside with a drink rather than a must to get me to the next smoke and I think that is the real difference for me.

[Lascaux]

I'm a regular smoker now and do notice less enjoyment and taste with cigars.

[M1F2R3]

I've never smoked a cigarette, never will either.

[Zigatoh]

Only when out drinking with the lads, always been that way since i was about 14! Somehow I think I manage to always feel so terrible the morning after that a cigarrette was the last thing I wanted!

Very much prefer the slow process of nicotine absorption from a cigar, I think I read a study somewhere that concluded that the quick hit of nicotine from a ciggie raised the heart rate, blood pressure etc, where the slow steady absorption from a cigar had a relaxing effect... Plus a pack of fags costs nearly as much as a pretty good cuban these days!!

[Pleevy]

I gave up smoking during the week at the start of the year. Can't help myself once I have had a few beers though.

[monkey66]

I find cigarettes almost unsmokable now.

[bigbarneyhotdog]

Cigs destroy yer taste buds. Give em up and taste a whole new world!

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[daverave999]

I'm back on the rollies after about three years off unfortunately. I find they do detract from the enjoyment of a cigar as they do taste unpleasant.

I treat cigarettes as completely different to cigars. I don't find that cigars make me more likely to want to smoke cigarettes either.

[Detroit_Waves]

Nope, dont smoke cigarettes, never will. Ive had the odd one here and there, but never interested me. Both my parents are HUGE smokers, so I think growing up, that put me off enough!

[Bad-Yeti]

I smoked 40 per day for nearly 23 years gave up when I came back from the States in early 2009, then went to Johannesburg for 2 months in Nov 09 and was offered cigars all the time......I was terrified it would start me off again so I refrained.

Then tried my first cigar in Early 2010.

Note: I had given up cigarettes in Late 2007 and started smoking cigars which pushed me straight back onto cigarettes Hence my trepidation.
All good though.

[snooky]

Never smoked ciggies .