In a word, rarely.
A truth about pipe smoking
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AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
Yes, absolutely. Sometimes, it's only when I've packed it, or even done the charring light, that I realise the moment isn't right.
Lefonque
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I haven’t smoked in two years but I still have some pipes and baccy available.
AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
Do you think it's something you'll ever go back to, or is it just there for happy memories?
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I stored my smoking equipment in the kitchen closet, pipes and tobacco both, for something like 17 years. Now I'm glad I didn't give away or sell the pipes, as getting into this hobby from scratch now would be somewhat expensive.
For me it is:
- nicotice is irrelevant
- room note is more interesting when it lingers, but maybe also not to be banned to the balcony, but I also smoke tobaccos with awful rommnote in MY room
- it`s all about taste, which for me means complexity and variation; smoking a pipe is a 50 minute journey for my taste buds (I smoke mainly English blends and different Virginias, as well as sometimes light aromatics (MB Mixture, Plumcake and such) and very seldom aromatics like Stanwell Melange, Vanilla and such, but I do); or, as a German modern philosopher (Rüdiger Safranski) put it: smoking a bowl is an interesting dialogue, an enriching conversation with the tobacco
- I'm not into pipes, they just have to burn the tobacco well and cool
- I like the ritual, I like that it is not a quick fix inbetween but takes time, and I like that I have to be calm and relaxed to enjoy a smoke (not the other way around)
- nicotice is irrelevant
- room note is more interesting when it lingers, but maybe also not to be banned to the balcony, but I also smoke tobaccos with awful rommnote in MY room
- it`s all about taste, which for me means complexity and variation; smoking a pipe is a 50 minute journey for my taste buds (I smoke mainly English blends and different Virginias, as well as sometimes light aromatics (MB Mixture, Plumcake and such) and very seldom aromatics like Stanwell Melange, Vanilla and such, but I do); or, as a German modern philosopher (Rüdiger Safranski) put it: smoking a bowl is an interesting dialogue, an enriching conversation with the tobacco
- I'm not into pipes, they just have to burn the tobacco well and cool
- I like the ritual, I like that it is not a quick fix inbetween but takes time, and I like that I have to be calm and relaxed to enjoy a smoke (not the other way around)
Lefonque
Even more clueless than you
I don’t think I will go back. Two years ago I had a stroke which resulted in a pacemaker when they took X-rays after it was fitted they discovered cancerous fibres round the lungs. The prognosis was not good. I gave up smoking. I am still around. A number of the pipes had been specially made for me so I didn’t want to get rid of them. We had to downsize our home and I didn’t want to throw out my smoking gear. Like you mentioned it does remind me of happier times. I do miss smoking very much.
I find pipe smoking to be the most relaxing and contemplative activity I can think of. And I find it most enjoyable with the most simplistic subtle blends I can find. Sometimes I feel like that fellow sitting on the sofa playing a G cord on his guitar endlessly. His friend asks why he plays the same cord all the time where others play tunes all over the neck. His reply is that all those other guys are still looking for it and I have found it.
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If what you are doing is working, I wouldn't change a thing. It's wonderful that you have beaten it off.
