When Do You Quit a Cigar?

[cigarzfan]

At what point do you stop smoking a typical cigar?

I find that I'm done with the cigar after about 2/3, leaving 1/3.  I feel like I'm "wasting" fine tobacco, but I find that they get a bit acrid at that point.

[HarveyBoulevard]

I usually quit when I can no longer comfortably hold said cigar without starting to burn my fingers.  I'd wager about an 1/1.5 inches...

[KCCubano]

I may do the same thing with a youngster. If it has a few years then I normally nub it. 

[99call]

More often than not I feel as if cigars have played all their card with and inch to go.    That said if they stay good, i will continue to smoke.  for me that about 1 in every 40 cigars

[Uncle00Jesse]

I’m with you. Assuming normal band placement, I usually smoke up to the band and call it a day. Very very very seldom is it still good to the point where I want to keep going. A warm/hot smoke is just not enjoyable to me

[Euckersw]

I also probably leave about a third left or just before the band on most of my cigars.

[david9985]

To the start of the band is my standard benchmark. Only a small percentage of the very best cigars will have me smoking for longer. If, for whatever reason, I am not enjoying a cigar, I will finish up rather than force my way through. That is a much more common scenario than nubbing.

[SmokyFontaine]

Hunh, I thought I would be in the minority here and everyone would be saying they nub it. I too find the cigar getting too bitter by right around the band. Sometimes I'll shimmy it up just a little and get another 5 min out of it, but most of the time right to the band and I'm feeling like I have experienced the best the cigar has. 

Notable exception - Trinidad. Maybe it's because I know they're more expensive and I convince myself to smoke longer, but I tend to really like those things down to the (un)bitter end. 

[djrey]

I quit the moment I am no longer enjoying the experience. Most CC I can burn my fingers on. NC cigars tend to taste burnt and acrid at the final 3rd for me.

[StogieSteve23]

Depends on how the flavors are progressing (or have plateaued) and how hot the cigar gets.  I'll nub it and almost burn my fingers if I am still enjoying the flavors but often times if it is too hot in the final third, that'll be it for me.  Normally 1/2" to 1" left in the stick.  Everyone is different though. 

[Fuzz]

8 minutes ago, djrey said:

I quit the moment I am no longer enjoying the experience.

This is where I draw the line too. Smoke for as long as you are enjoying the cigar. Once you no longer enjoy it, stop; there is no point pushing onward. 

[Rhinoww]

Perhaps i smoke cigars I really enjoy, but I find myself numbing most of the CC I smoke. 
 

I would generally say the final third is my favorite part of the smoke w the most developed flavors. 

[westg]

Loving everything I am smoking these days. Most of my stock is 5 to 10 and beyond.It is very unlikely that what I smoke does not go all the way to the end. In most cases the cigars keep getting better..Hard to stop.

[RDB]

I’m in the 2/3rds or roughly to the band camp, unless its really excellent and I’m tipsy. In which case to the death.

[mtd057]

Agree with most here.  2/3 or to the band is usually where I stop, some a little more, some a little less.  I feel fortunate that I have built up my stock to the point that I don't feel like I have to take every one to the nub.  If I am enjoying something I keep going.  Once I don't enjoy it, I stop.  

[KFBR392]

Nub them all. Unless they’re bottom 10-20% on my scale. 

[LLC]

When I’m done enjoying it.

 

 

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[CigarZen]

For me it just depends on the cigar, I smoke it until I don’t enjoy it any more.  Some get numbed.  Some at half way point if turn wonky.

[Capt. Corona]

Burnt the crap outta my lip more than once! ?

 

[Habana Mike]

It comes down to the cigar. As long as it's still going well I keep going.

True that younger cigars tend to become more harsh or bitter that older ones so those get put down sooner.

 

[GVan]

Pretty much to the band or just above it.  If the CC is really good, then I go farther - to the last inch - but once it becomes bitter or I get that Tar taste I'm done.  The other peeve is when the cigar is very young and I get to the last third and it requires too many relights - then, frustration says throw it away.

[alloy]

Down to the nub with my Perfecdraw. I smoke slowly, so down to the nub!

[ReelMan]

It depends on the cigar.  Some taste great down to the last bits.  As soon as I start to taste a fairly significant reduction of flavor, I put it down.  

[Shelby07]

No set time. But I do find myself taking a couple of extra draws after the cigar is telling me it’s given all it has to give. I guess I’m an optimist. 

[Sorrowful]

When I stop enjoying it.  Could have nothing to do with the cigar itself (e.g., too hot or cold outside, nicotine is hitting me, etc)