Why do you smoke cigars?

[Darkenskies]

Simple question right?  When friends ask me why I smoke cigars I just automatically reply " it helps me relax" or "I like the flavors" but is that it?  I was looking at the recent 24:24 and my subconscious asked itself "Why do I smoke cigars?" lol

Life and work can be demanding and stressful.  The career is not a 9-5.  Its 7 days a week. 8am - 8 pm or later every day.  I don't get to turn off my cell phone after a certain time of the day but once in a while I find myself a little ahead of all the emails and documents.  That's when I find a quiet place and smoke a cigar.  It's time reserved for myself where I don't think about deadlines.  It's an hour or so where I just think of nothing seemingly important at the time.  Mind will drift towards good times with friends, a past camping trip, future hikes, a friends birthday party coming up.  I get to plan where to take my girlfriend for dinner this weekend.  Maybe even reflect and be grateful for just being alive and able to enjoy this moment.  Unless the sonofab*tch is plugged .. Also have a really good friends that enjoys cigars.  This gives us something additional to talk about, share or do while we are hanging out.  I guess when I say cigars help me "relax" I mean it's one of my vices that keep me sane.  

It's more than just the smoke, its time well spent.

Curious to hear why others smoke.

 

[Capt. Brett]

17 minutes ago, Darkenskies said:

Simple question right?  When friends ask me why I smoke cigars I just automatically reply " it helps me relax" or "I like the flavors" but is that it?  I was looking at the recent 24:24 and my subconscious asked itself "Why do I smoke cigars?" lol

Life and work can be demanding and stressful.  The career is not a 9-5.  Its 7 days a week. 8am - 8 pm or later every day.  I don't get to turn off my cell phone after a certain time of the day but once in a while I find myself a little ahead of all the emails and documents.  That's when I find a quiet place and smoke a cigar.  It's time reserved for myself where I don't think about deadlines.  It's an hour or so where I just think of nothing seemingly important at the time.  Mind will drift towards good times with friends, a past camping trip, future hikes, a friends birthday party coming up.  I get to plan where to take my girlfriend for dinner this weekend.  Maybe even reflect and be grateful for just being alive and able to enjoy this moment.  Unless the sonofab*tch is plugged .. Also have a really good friends that enjoys cigars.  This gives us something additional to talk about, share or do while we are hanging out.  I guess when I say cigars help me "relax" I mean it's one of my vices that keep me sane.  

It's more than just the smoke, its time well spent.

Curious to hear why others smoke.

 

You hit the nail on the head. 

[Cep]

because I spent 20k on them for some reason and now i have to smoke them

 

[BuzzArd]

They're easier than women.  

I always know when I'll get one. 

If I want more than one I can get more than one.  One after the other or two at a time...

If a cigar isn't pleasing me I toss it aside in favor of another.

The variety is unparalleled. 

And most importantly, a cigar will never say "no".

edit: Of course I should add they're ultimately cheaper as well...

[Colt45]

The most succinct answer I can give is for flavor.

[Thedrunk]

Aroma therapy

[ggaspar]

Voices in my head order me to smoke cigars

[Darkenskies]

LOL  love all the answers    I guess I also smoke because excessive Scotch and Whiskey is too hard on my liver

[WoadyCypress]

I just recently picked up the hobby. Started of getting some cheap Tatiana to smoke with some beer to relax. That quickly escalated to quality NCs and tasty rum. Now I'm on the hunt for my favorite CC, I have long way to go.

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[irratebass]

I did it initially to take place of cigarettes, and because Tony Soprano looked cool when he smoked, but after I really explored and learned about cigars it really hit me, that this is an art, as well as a hobby/obsession, but it also brings us all together as brothers.

We all have one thing in common, and that's the leaf.

My only regret is I wished I would have discovered cigars at an earlier age.

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[domr]

God damn this was perfect. I may steal this verbatim as a declaration to post on Facebook!

[garbandz]

Because Crack hurts my sinuses..............

[Arctic Dude]

Just one word.........COLUMBO! ?

[MaxSmash]

It's my only vice now. Since I've sobered up and quit cigarettes. It's all I have. And I couldn't be happier.

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[1LegLance]

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936).  Verse: 1885–1918.  1922.

The Betrothed

“You must choose between me and your cigar.”  Breach of Promise Case, circa, 1885

OPEN the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.   We quarrelled about Havanas—we fought o’er a good cheroot, And I know she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.   Open the old cigar-box—let me consider a space;         5 In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie’s face.   Maggie is pretty to look at—Maggie’s a loving lass, But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the truest of loves must pass.   There’s peace in a Laranaga, there’s calm in a Henry Clay; But the best cigar in an hour is finished and thrown away—         10   Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe and brown— But I could not throw away Maggie for fear o’ the talk o’ the town!   Maggie, my wife at fifty—grey and dour and old— With never another Maggie to purchase for love or gold!   And the light of Days that have Been the dark of the Days that Are,         15 And Love’s torch stinking and stale, like the butt of a dead cigar—   The butt of a dead cigar you are bound to keep in your pocket— With never a new one to light tho’ it’s charred and black to the socket!   Open the old cigar-box—let me consider a while. Here is a mild Manilla—there is a wifely smile.         20   Which is the better portion—bondage bought with a ring, Or a harem of dusky beauties fifty tied in a string?   Counsellors cunning and silent—comforters true and tried, And never a one of the fifty to sneer at a rival bride?   Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,         25 Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close,   This will the fifty give me, asking nought in return, With only a Suttee’s passion—to do their duty and burn.   This will the fifty give me. When they are spent and dead, Five times other fifties shall be my servants instead.         30   The furrows of far-off Java, the isles of the Spanish Main, When they hear my harem is empty will send me my brides again.   I will take no heed to their raiment, nor food for their mouths withal, So long as the gulls are nesting, so long as the showers fall.   I will scent ’em with best vanilla, with tea will I temper their hides,         35 And the Moor and the Mormon shall envy who read of the tale of my brides.   For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick o’ Teen.   And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear, But I have been Priest of Cabanas a matter of seven year;         40   And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light Of stumps that I burned to Friendship and Pleasure and Work and Fight.   And I turn my eyes to the future that Maggie and I must prove, But the only light on the marshes is the Will-o’-the-Wisp of Love.   Will it see me safe through my journey or leave me bogged in the mire?         45 Since a puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall I follow the fitful fire?   Open the old cigar-box—let me consider anew— Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?   A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.         50   Light me another Cuba—I hold to my first-sworn vows. If Maggie will have no rival, I’ll have no Maggie for Spouse!   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> While I have a great wife there are a few lines in this peom by the same guy that wrote the Jungle Book that remind me why my son's, myself and my friend enjoy cigars... Especially these lines... Counsellors cunning and silent—comforters true and tried,   And never a one of the fifty to sneer at a rival bride?     Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,         25 Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close,     This will the fifty give me, asking nought in return,   With only a Suttee’s passion—to do their duty and burn.

[archosaur]

Great thread!  I have nothing to add to the wit, humor and eloquence on display 

[stogieluver]

4 hours ago, Thedrunk said:

Aroma therapy

^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^

[stunod]

5 hours ago, BuzzArd said:

They're easier than women.  

I always know when I'll get one. 

If I want more than one I can get more than one.  One after the other or two at a time...

If a cigar isn't pleasing me I toss it aside in favor of another.

The variety is unparalleled. 

And most importantly, a cigar will never say "no".

edit: Of course I should add they're ultimately cheaper as well...

That last one is questionable 

[devildoge9]

6 hours ago, BuzzArd said:

They're easier than women.  

I always know when I'll get one. 

If I want more than one I can get more than one.  One after the other or two at a time...

If a cigar isn't pleasing me I toss it aside in favor of another.

The variety is unparalleled. 

And most importantly, a cigar will never say "no".

edit: Of course I should add they're ultimately cheaper as well...

  You Sir, nailed it!!

[rhcolbert]

Burden not on me....I say to your inquiry, "why not?"

[Philc2001]

Because I can!

 

[dicko]

I came for the flavour and stayed for the friends.

I also like the relaxing element, the 'collecting' and history.

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[garbandz]

I tried to smoke a turkey once.

 

kept going out.

[SirVantes]

Since I'm a little tired of burning the candle at both ends, I burn the cigar at one end now. 

[SaintMickey®]

The flavor, the ritual, the enjoyment, the relaxation, the solitude, the friends...but ultimately its the flavor because if the cigars tasted bad I wouldn't smoke them.