Can you really "save" a cigar to smoke later?

[El Presidente]

 

 

 

[SCgarman]

Absolutely NO. Pitch it and grab a new one!

[BigGuns]

While I don’t subscribe to it, I have a few friends that have employed similar methods to “save” their unfinished cigars. Seems to work for them, but I think the longest I’ve gone from out to relight MAY have been a couple hours. Weeks or months???  Not so sure about that. Interested to hear if anyone here has success with something like this

[JohnS]

Trust me, it's not like eating leftover food kept in a refrigerator. The cigar will more than likely be bitter after re-lighting. Best not to in my opinion.

[Arabian]

Maybe some people are into charcoal.

[Wookie]

I don’t do it for CCs, but I might finish an NC within 24 hours. Especially if I’m properly hydrated. 

[Gubbins]

I’ve rarely wanted or needed to ditch a Cuban early. As others have said, I sometimes will return to a new world within the same day if I got bored of it the first time round.

[chasy]

Agreed but what is the max amount of time where you’d come back to it?

Hypothetical: you light cigar, get half way through and then have to step away for an hour. Are you relighting? At 2 hours? 4 hours? 6 hours?

[westg]

Why would you ? My first thought.  Especially a Churchill or larger format. If you are bound by time smoke something smaller and if you do have to pitch it ...no biggy. I think the longer you smoke a cigar, let's say half to two thirds. There is no coming back the next day or there after. That cigar has heat and smoke pulled through it. Personally I rarely let a cigar go out. Always taking car of it. 

Let's wait and see what Jasim thinks. Can't be to far off. 

[Tunkat92]

Put her down with dignity, no cigar wants to suffer the save for later torture.

[MossybackR]

“Excuse me, honey! I don’t care if the minister is her, I still have a lit [fill in the blank].”

[La_Tigre]

I have heard from a Cuban that we toured around with extensively to let it go out but do not ash it or anything. Then relight later as you would had it gone out while smoking it. I believe this would be for same day smoking and on the island you wouldn’t worry about it drying out. 

[Li Bai]

I've never done it before (or maybe with a Piedra for a couple hours probably) but even without experience it doesn't seem like a good idea. I'll try it one day 🧐

[Chibearsv]

I knew a guy (when I sold cars) that used to tap out his cigarette on the sole of his shoe and stick it in his shirt pocket for a later relight. Every part of that process disgusted me to the point of it being a mental block. Even if Cigar Jesus told me the video’s techniques worked perfectly, I’m not doing it. 

[Squarehead]

I did it once and it was horrible. Never again!

[BrightonCorgi]

I've done the first part (cut and blow out smoke) to smoke a cigar later on. Later on, to me is hours, not a day.

[Darco]

16 hours ago, chasy said:

Agreed but what is the max amount of time where you’d come back to it?

Hypothetical: you light cigar, get half way through and then have to step away for an hour. Are you relighting? At 2 hours? 4 hours? 6 hours?

For me, it’s useless after few minutes let alone hours.

[SigmundChurchill]

Nope. The cigar no longer tastes anywhere close to what it was intended to taste like. Life is too short to smoke things that taste like crap.

[REesq]

4 hours ago, SigmundChurchill said:

Nope. The cigar no longer tastes anywhere close to what it was intended to taste like. Life is too short to smoke things that taste like crap.

Well stated.😉

[Puros Y Vino]

5 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

I've done the first part (cut and blow out smoke) to smoke a cigar later on. Later on, to me is hours, not a day.

Exactly this. Get called away for a chore? Cut. Blow out. Let it sit in ashtray. Come back a couple of hours later. It will initially tasty charry, but will taper off. Not ideal but better than tossing it altogether. I do remember some unfortunate posts on Reddit's r/cigars many years ago from some sad sacks who did the above but put the cigar back in their humidor. 🤦‍♂️ "Help! My humidor smells like a dirty ashtray!!"

[Havanaaddict]

NO!😂 The only thing I have done is when I was on vacation in Paris and we were traveling the Metro then walking. I had a travel tube and I would blow through the cigar and drop it in the tube get on the Metro and when I got off re-lite the cigar, It had only been 10 or 15 min, so not a big deal. Back when I was new to cigars and Cubans were like gold I do remember bagging a cigar like these guys and trying to smoke it the next day HARSH! Max is maybe at a herf and food is ready, I will put it down and re-lite 20, 30 min later.

[rcarlson]

 

[tbelle7]

On 1/21/2025 at 12:10 AM, SigmundChurchill said:

Nope. The cigar no longer tastes anywhere close to what it was intended to taste like. Life is too short to smoke things that taste like crap.

This is the correct answer.

 

[joeypots]

No. I think I read that Winston Churchill smoked 25 cigars a day. He would pitch any cigar that went out and light a fresh one, which added to his daily number of smokes considerably.

[theTXpanda]

I have no interest in saving cigars. I don't even enjoy them all that much after they go out during the original smoking session.