How did you get into cigars

[snooky]

For me i only had one cigar a year when on my hols with a brandy . Then i got into collecting watches genuine and good replicas so i looked up RepGeek and they have a very good cigar section, well , got the bug and the rest is history , also never smoked fags, hate addictions.
How did you start ?

[PoohBore]

I've always hated cigarettes with a passion but I've liked the smell of pipe tobacco and pipe and cigar smoke.

Went on holiday this time last year to Cuba and by the time I came home I'd smoked a few cigars. Over the last year I've been trying out various single cigars to work out what I like and took full advantage when my parents went back to cuba last month

[daverave999]

Smoked fags since I was 13 and had the odd Hamlet or Classic and thought they were gross.

My mate got me a couple of Cubans (might be fakes...) for the Christmas just gone and I started looking into how best to store them. My interest was piqued, and it went from there really.

Incidentally since some time in February I've had less than ten cigarettes. I had my first one last week in over two months. I just don't really like them any more. Different attitude to smoking now with cigars.

[matt257]

In all honesty, I bought a cigar because I thought it would make me look "cool". I smoked it and got hooked, the rest is history

[Lascaux]

Incidentally since some time in February I've had less than ten cigarettes. I had my first one last week in over two months. I just don't really like them any more. Different attitude to smoking now with cigars.

i occassionaly smoked fags for a couple of years, roll ups tho with good tobacco, but now im smoking cigars, cigarettes taste absolutely vile, even roll ups using good tobacco. i also prefer the nicotine hit from cigars over fags, much smoother and subtler.

[Robusto]

The sexy smell drew me in. The sexy taste kept me there.

As a 14/15 year old, I found it exciting to go into paper shops and buy packs of five Castellas and smoke them like a badass schoolboy. I used to keep the cigars in a Monopoly box on top of my wardrobe along with my Mayfairs. (Not the cigarettes).

I think that why the cigars-and-sex thing is pronounced in my mind because of the naughtiness lol of smoking in my teenage years.

I did cigarettes a bit for a couple of years but they are vile. I agree with you guys.

I like the size of cigars, and I love showing off with them.
Pointing. Gesticulating. Carrying them in your gob.
It's silly theatre, really.
But I love all that.

[Bender]

I also hate cigarettes with a passion. The 2nd hand smoke just gags me. Cigar smoke doesn't bother me, oddly enough.

I received a cigar catalouge in the mail a long time ago and I sifted thru it reading the descriptions they sounded yummy so I bit and the rest is history...

Then of course I always wanted to taste the forbidden fruit of Cubans....

[Kdot]

I detest cigarettes, they just smell and taste foul. However I always liked the smell of cigars (similar to the way i like the smell of petrol and burnt matches, but don't think ill start sniffing those any time soon!) and would enjoy the odd puro at a wedding, etc.

The story goes like this, A friend gave me a cigar as a substitute for another forbidden smoke which I decided to give up I liked it and started buying a few sticks over the counter at asda or Vicky wines. A few weeks later I was given a selection of cubanos for my 23rd bday and its been on since then.

[yankeefan]

i smoked cigarettes for about 10 or 15 yrs gave those up gained about 20 or 30 pounds then got hooked on cigars while on my honeymoon .8 yrs to be exact

[jpmoore]

I had a house mate at Uni that came from gibraltar every time he travelled home he brought back a box we spend many a night drinking, smoking and playing cards. 10 years later i am still smoking them

[Lou3]

While living in Tokyo, I read an article about Cuban cigars and realized I had better try one before returning to the US. I picked up a few Cubans and non-Cubans so I could get the overall cigar experience. By the time I finished the batch, I was shopping for a humidor.

[Deano]

Bit of a repeat thread, but no matter, we'll all enjoy repeating!

Dad's side always smoked cigars, one uncle in particuar. However, it was really my recent trip to Cuba (last year) which caught my fascination - really on return, when I had a box of cigars, got addicted to the smell and subsquently amazing history of the cigar. Then I set up these forums!

[Stevieboy]

Smoked fags until I hit 30 them stopped when I got married and we decided on a family.

A few years later whilst shopping in Bargain Books I found a wonderful book by Marvin Shanken that opened my eyes to the beautiful world of cigars. I read it cover to cover but didn't trust myself enough to smoke a cigar in case I was substituting them for fags. Three years later I took the plunge and bought a 9 stick sampler from C.Gars and the rest is history. I remember I smoked the sampler in order of strength...it was the 3rd cigar, a RyJ panatella that hooked me

[pligster]

where did it all go right?

Used to smoke cigarettes 20 a day for 20 years. went on hols to Cuba found out wife was pregnant switched to cigars and hey presto! must be nearly 5 years since as I now have a daughter aged 4!

[Kubano]

My aunt gave me a box of RyJ Churchills and Monte #5 12years ago, and have been hooked ever since.