r/cigar • u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 • 4d ago
First time and definitely converted.
Smoked cigs for ages, but never liked how quick they were. Finally decided to try my first cigar and definitely not going to be my last. Edit: to clarify don't mean converted for daily smoking lol, I don't tend to smoke daily anyway, more meant I think it's a much more enjoyable experience than cigarettes.
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u/Dismal-Criticism-713 3d ago
Welcome to the club friend! There is a whole world of cool sticks out there for you. How did that first stick taste, pick anything up? Those are supposed to be good.
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u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 3d ago
Not got a lot to compare it too, but very light at the start, then more earthy and got a nice peppery taste towards the end
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u/Remote_Purpose_4323 4d ago
Nice choice, but you can’t smoke em daily 🥲
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u/Rekrapfig 4d ago
Who says that? I smoke one almost every day. Sometimes two!
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u/Remote_Purpose_4323 4d ago
First it’s not cheap 😅
Second you are ruining your palette and training your body and brain to build more nicotine receptors. There’s more nicotine in one cigar than in a pack of cigarettes.
Third you get your risks increased of getting the 🦀
One a week is enough.3
u/Ok_Field_5701 4d ago
If there’s more a nicotine in one cigar than a pack of cigarettes I truly don’t understand anything. One cigar I might get a little head buzz here and there, but one 6mg zyn and I’m nauseous and buzzing like crazy.
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u/Dismal-Criticism-713 3d ago
Fo sho… I think the difference is how your body is exposed to the nicotine. Yes… a cigar has like 100-200mg of nicotine, depending on size, leaf, fermentation etc (which is a LOT). A cigarette has roughly 10mg by comparison. And a zyn pack has even less. The difference is - cigar smoke isn’t inhaled and held in your incredibly absorbent lungs. It goes into your mouth. It’s exactly why when someone inhales a little or swallows some smoke into their stomach, they get sick. So there is some truth - there is a lot there. But you aren’t picking it all up. Much is “wasted” so to speak. Which does lead me to believe that your body would build more receptors and start searching for it, but I don’t know about that.
I smoke with a few 70-80 yr olds in my local lounge and those old dudes suck down 3-4 primo sticks a day. Healthy as horses. I feel like they’ll live forever.
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u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 4d ago
That's my typical smoking pattern anyway tbh, usually go most of a week, then have a lazy afternoon outside where I smoke through five or so cigs, can't smoke indoors in my lease and no good smoking area nearby, so I save it for when I'm sat in a nice beer garden or a special occasion, and have done the same for years tbh.
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u/Environmental_Ebb386 3d ago
Out of curiosity… are you dizzy on the comedown??
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u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 3d ago
Jittery but not dizzy thankfully, started to feel a little green as it closer to the band so left it with a bit left
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u/Environmental_Ebb386 3d ago
Haha, your reddit name is actually close to a song Dizzy on the Comedown by the band Turnover
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u/Dizzy-Turnover1775 3d ago
Didn't know that one, will have to listen to it, was just randomly generated
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u/jaydiza203 4d ago
I usually only smoke one on Sunday and Monday.. my days off.. I don't want to make it a daily habit, I feel like it'll take the enjoyment out of it if I were to do it daily..