Trying to quit smoking is not easy, learning the exact reason why you actually smoke is often critical to the success of the project.  If you discover the exact reason why you are smoking it can make it so much easier to actually determine how to find the success that you need, in order to quit for good.  Simply trying to quit for reasons that do not pertain to your situation will leave you upset and frustrated.  You are likely to feel as if you are nothing more than a failure, and your overall situation is not likely to be impressive at all.  However, if you take the time to discover why you specifically smoke, you will be surprised at just how much easier it is to stop.

Many people smoke for a wide range of reasons.  They can range from something as innocent as smoking when you are depressed, stressed or when you just want a quick pick me up.  The idea that smoking a cigarette will make your projects go away is an innocent idea, but in reality, it is completely incorrect.  Typically, what is actually beneficial is the fact that you are able to take a few brief moments out of your life to see exactly what is going on.  One such example is those who work at a stressful job, looking forward to your next cigarette break is often going hand in hand with trying to break away from the stress for a few brief moments.  Learning how to cut down the stress at work can be very helpful to cutting down the number of cigarettes you need as well.

Other reasons that many people smoke is due to being under the impression that they will not be able to smoke.  This comes back to the old idea that you are never hungry at night except for the night before a medical test when you are not allowed to eat after 8p.m.  Suddenly that very night you are positively starving and think that your doctor is punishing you badly for some reason.  The same thing happens to smokers.  If you are going somewhere and you think you will not be able to smoke, the urge to smoke may be much stronger.  This often has nothing to do with actually needing or even wanting to smoke.  It is nothing more than a mental game that we play with ourselves.

Many smokers find that they are only interested in smoking if they are bored.  Having nothing to do leads to idle hands, which can easily create problems.  Learning how to keep yourself busy is not easy, but trying to avoid boredom can often go a very long way in the battle to stop smoking.  Taking the time to create a schedule for yourself that you can keep, without leaving too much down time is important.  If you pack your schedule with too much, you will create stress, which could cause you to smoke even more, if you have too much free time you could become bored which can also lead to smoking more.  A properly balanced schedule will ensure that you are productive without stressing.

A final consideration that you need to take into account is getting plenty of sleep.  Many people smoke because they need a pick me up in the middle of the day.  Finding yourself in this position is not good.  Avoid staying up excessively late whenever possible.  Even going to bed early once a week can add up to reducing the sleep shortage that you are experiencing.  As lives are increasingly busy, it is quite easy to forget how important sleep really is.  This can create a huge need to do something, almost anything to actually stay awake.  Avoid smoking and ensure that you are getting the rest you really need.  This simple step alone can help you to cut your smoking by as much as half if you are dedicated to getting the sleep that your body really needs to survive.

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How to Smoke Cigars

Far be it for us to instruct anyone how to smoke their cigars, but here goes anyway:

Four out of five of your senses have an important role to play in assessing the cigar. Sight, touch, smell and taste. Rolling a cigar next to your ear does not achieve anything useful – you can leave your ears at home.

There are two elements to the process of smoking your cigar. The first is the physical practicality of cutting, lighting and smoking. The second is the effect a cigar has on your senses while you carry out these various functions.

The Physical Practicalities:

Cutting

Once you have selected your cigar (see below – ‘Cigar Sensations’), you will need to cut the closed end. All handmade cigars have a cap (Havanas have a double cap) over the head end – this end goes in your mouth. If you attempt to smoke a cigar the other way around, you will find that half way through it will unravel and take on the appearance of an exploded stick. There are a number of ways of cutting the cap, ranging from the use of a thumb-nail, to portable guillotine cutters (both single and double bladed – see ‘Accessories’ on navigation bar), from cheap to expensive, to the more exotic cigar scissors and table-top cutters.

The cut should be clean and level, or there will be difficulties with the draw and a risk of damaging the wrapper. Cut the cigar so that an eighth of an inch of the cap is left around the cigar wrapper. It is not recommended that you pierce the cap with a pin, as this will interfere with the passage of smoke, make the cigar overheat and lead to unpleasant flavours from residues condensing at the point the cap was pierced. Cap hole-punching devices do work well as long as the diameter of the punch is at least a quarter of an inch. Wedge-shaped cutters are also not recommended, as these have a tendency to cut through all of the band on either side and the cigar wrapper can then unravel.

Whatever you use, make sure it is sharp, and that you expose enough of the filler leaves under the cap to allow the smoke uninterrupted passage.

Lighting Up

When you light a cigar, use either a butane lighter (not one filled with gasoline) or a match. Anything else, such as using a candle, will tend to taint the flavour of the cigar, and will ultimately impede the passage of smoke through the cigar with particles from the flame. Avoid matches with high sulphur or wax contact (don’t use paper matches). Take time and care to light the cigar.

First, hold the cigar horizontally in direct contact with the flame, and slowly revolve it until the end is charred evenly over its entire surface.

Put the cigar between your lips, hold the flame about half an inch away from the end, and draw slowly while rotating the cigar. Its end should now ignite. Ensure an even burn has taken hold.

Gently blow on the burning end to make sure the cigar is fully lit.

Smoking

After five minutes the cigar will have warned up and you will have reached cruising altitude.

Unlike cigarettes, cigars will naturally go out if left unattended. If your cigar goes out, don’t worry. Remove any ash clinging to the previously lit end by tapping the cigar. Blow through the cigar to clear away stale smoke. Re-light as previously described above. As long as the cigar has not been out for too long, the flavour will not be unduly affected. Continuous re-lighting of cigars will affect the flavour, and if a cigar is allowed to cool, then on re-lighting the tastes can become tainted and unpleasant (due to condensation of the smoke in the remaining part of the cigar).

Havanas are made from long filler tobacco leaves (another difference to cigarettes and machine made cigars). This means that the ash on the cigar, if it is a good one, should not fall off the moment it appears. There is no particular merit in keeping a long ash on a cigar, but neither is there any need to continually tap it to remove any excess ash. In assessing the quality of construction of your cigar, a long solid cylinder of ash is a good sign.

There is no need to warm the length of the cigar before smoking it. This was done in the nineteenth century to burn off the rather unpleasant gum used on some cigars made in Seville. Today’s handmade Cuban cigars use a small drop of flavourless, odorless vegetable gum at the cap end of the wrapper leaf.

The “End”

The final third of your cigar will be when the smoke is at its strongest. This is the time to part company before flavours become bitter and the effect of the cigar on your well-being may become detrimental. There is absolutely no need to stub or grind a cigar out to extinguish it. Left in the ashtray it will go out by itself: if you stub it out, it will release foul odours into the room. Once the cigar has self-extinguished remove any butts and ash from the room before they start to give out unpleasant smells (i.e. before going to bed!).

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I tried a cigar for the first time yesterday and fell in love with it, even though when I tried a cigarette I thought it was nasty. Anyway, people were telling me not to inhale a cigar and just puff it. How do I do that? And are cigars less addictive and unhealthy than ciggs?

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Process of cigars smoking differs from traditional – cigarettes smoking. Firstly, cigar smoke is not inhaled because it prevents to feel its flavor. Besides, cigar cannot be lighted up from benzene lighter – even Zippo or Ronson changes it flavor cardinally. The best variant – special long matches that are offered, for example, by famous tobacco factory – Dunhill.

Cut cigars: cigar’s end must be cut before beginning to smoke cigar. For this purpose are used either special scissors for cigars or scissors in form of guillotine (buy them mandatory, because to use teethes for this purpose is considered bad form). Guillotine once are recommended as more effective.

Good “Havana” are kept in special cases made of cedar of Lebanon but witty mechanism for supporting permanent and definite humidity. “Humidors”, as they are called, besides their direct destination also serve as collectible. So, in 1989 in Sotby auction Jhon’s Kennedy humidor was bought for astronomic amount of 159 thousands dollars. The best variant – special long matches that are offered, for example, by famous tobacco factory – Dunhill. That is everything should know about cigars their admirer-beginner. Now you are ready to join the realm of lovers to hold smoke in teethes.

1. Cut cigars: cigar’s end must be cut before beginning to smoke cigar. For this purpose are used either special scissors for cigars or scissors in form of guillotine. Guillotine once are recommended as more effective.

2. Lighting up a cigar is creative process that is why you must approach to it step by step.

3. Hold cigar in hands horizontally and slowly turn it over the flame in such a way that its end would burn evenly.

4. Take cigar in the mouth. Hold it horizontally. Burn the very end of cigar and inhale very slowly, at the same time turning cigar.

You mustn’t use ashtray every minute, you don’t need this – the better cigar is, the longer can be ashes pile that it holds. You also mustn’t put it out as usual butt – it will go out itself in half of minute.

How should you offer cigar to another person?

Refines cigar lovers are famous with their predilection for food, wine and strong alcohol beverages. Cigars must be always offered in original cigar case or box for cigars.

Is it possible to light up cigar for the second time?

If the point at issue is that cigar has just went out but we want to continue smoking and that is why we light it up for the second time – there is nothing reprehensible here. If talking about situation that cigar is smoked on half and is put aside for the next day, it is unlikely. Flavor bouquet of cigar is changed, opening new flavors while smoking, if you let it go out and put it aside, flavor balance will be broken, repeated lighting up will not give you big pleasure as combustion products that have absorbed tobacco leaf will give to feel themselves.

What is stylish to smoke today?

Cigars as element of respectability and prestige become more and more popular. But if tribute to fashion in some cases serves as push for exposure to cigars, than hereinafter they are chosen namely thanks to flavor, they become integral part of way of living.

These days a lot of people are giving up cigarette smoking for cigar smoking. If you wonder why they do that or whether you should join the bandwagon, the following are reasons that make cigars more appealing than cigarettes.

Luxury

What is a cool way to show that your bank balance is large enough to make your bank tilt or that you walk around with a wallet fatter than a Burger King Double Whopper? Of course, it is so smoke a cigar. You see it in top class hotels and bars: A group of honorable and wealthy men having a discussion and they are all smoking cigars. It is a fact, cigars cost more than cigarettes. An authentic top-notch cigar can cost as much as or more.

Sophistication

You see it in real life:

-          Politicians like former US Presidents J.F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton; Rudy Guiliani and Winston Churchill

-          Revolutionaries like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara

-          Movie stars like Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Gene Hackman and Michael Douglas

-          Sportspeople like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretsky

They all smoke cigars and they do it because they have larger-than-life personalities. They have a certain savvy which can only be complemented by the cigars they smoke. It looks really cool and dignified to smoke cigars especially when you do it right (and this means you must learn cigar smoking etiquette).

Avoid Lung Cancer

You may want to be told that your beloved cigar is totally harmless but lamentably, that is not the case. However, you can always take solace in the fact that cigars help you avoid the number one complication of smoking which is lung cancer. Cigar smoke is not intended to be inhaled which is why they do not have filters in the first place unlike cigarettes. This non-inhalation means that cigar smokers are less likely than cigarette smokers to develop lung cancer. It is important to point out here that nevertheless, cigars and cigarettes both predispose smokers to other cancers.

Variety

Variety in cigarettes simply means a variation in the amount of nicotine, the presence or absence of a filter or the addition of menthol. Cigars offer an array of sizes, shapes, colors, smells and tastes. For the person who wants to smoke cigars, there is sure to be a quality of cigars that will suit him or her just fine. For ladies who do not consider it ladylike to be seen with a fat cigar, there are little cigars which are just as small as cigarettes but with all the grandness of cigars.

Biodegradability

You cannot say you have not heard about how man is destroying the earth’s environment and the possible consequences of these actions. So, do you want to do something about it? How about smoking cigars instead of cigarettes? Cigars are known to be more biodegradable than cigarettes. This means that they can be broken down into non-harmful components by natural means such as by bacteria. The filters on cigarettes are not biodegradable.

Still trying to make up your mind? How about the fact that smoking cigars is more pleasurable than smoking cigarettes? If you enjoy a long smoke, then those large cigars are perfect for you. Some of them can last for up to an hour.

Most people know that inhaling secondhand cigarette smoke can be dangerous. But what about inhaling the smoke from a cigar? The dangers of being exposed to cigar smoke can be just as dangerous (if not worse) than the smoke of a cigarette.

The secondhand smoke from both cigarettes and cigars both contain some of the same ingredients that can cause irritation to others, including nicotine, ammonia, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide. In addition, they both also release the same dangerous ingredients that can cause cancer, which include benzene, arsenic, hydrocarbons, and nitrosamines. While they both contain the many of the same ingredients, cigars are of a bigger size. So they release more tobacco and irritants than the cigarettes do. When inhaled, even by those who do not smoke, this can cause a great health risk and a chance of becoming ill with diseases such as cancer.

Now, while cigarettes and cigars release the same irritants and tobacco smoke, they still have their differences, which are related to the ways they are each manufactured. The manufacturing of the cigars make the smoke more dangerous than that of cigarettes. Cigars are aged and fermented. Then they become wrapped in a nonporous wrapper. This wrapper keeps the cigar from quickly burning out. All of this helps to add to the cigar smoke’s high concentrations of carcinogens, as well as increasing the risk of cancer. When the cigar is lit, the fermentation and the nonporous wrapper cause the carcinogens to be released. When released, they can be breathed in by those around the smoker. This secondhand can cause just as much damage to those who do not smoke then to do those who do smoke.

The dangers of being exposed to cigar smoke also come from the length of the cigar and the distance it is from the person’s body. Due to the fact that cigars are bigger than cigarettes, they can release more smoke, which can be higher in irritants and toxins. The process of actually smoking the cigarette is slower than the process of smoking regular cigarettes. So this can create more harmful smoke and the smoke will be in the air for a longer period of time.

So as you can see, the smoke of a cigar can be just as harmful when inhaled by non-smokers than it can be for those who actually do smoke. If you are a smoker, you should be sure to smoke in a well-ventilated area and away from the non-smokers. They have chosen not to smoke for a reason, so it would be considerate to not surround them with the cloud of harmful smoke. If you are a non-smoker, you should keep your distance from those who are smoking around you, so that you do not breathe in the secondhand smoke and put yourself at any dangerous health risks.
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Article by Daren

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Question by HLR: How do you decently “smoke” a cigar?


Best answer:

Answer by D
In a blue dress.

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Question by Cookie: I have been smelling “cigar smoke” for 2 years nowadays.Non-smoking household.Is this symptom of what disease?


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Answer by searching_please
Not sure what disease, but it’s called “olfactory hallucinations” unless it’s a ghost.Good luck!

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