... do yourself a favor and give that up, too.  It's not good for you either.  And if I can quit a 3+ pack a day habit after 30+ years, so can you!

Hi, I recently gave up pipe smoking. I smoked cigarettes, went to cigars and pipe as well. Actually bounced between all 3 for years, but I finally tried to just smoke a pipe.

Well, good news is I didn't miss cigarettes, bad news is, thats because I was inhaling the pipe smoke. Hell, I even inhaled cigar smoke. Well, I gave them all up, I wasn't doing myself any good.

I still love the smell though, and it's hard to look at that retired pipe without wanting to run out and get some tobacco
I just wish I could smoke it and not inhale.....

They're both bad for you; Just like fast food, fast cars and fast women. There isn't a guy on this board who is going to give up ALL of those three things. Especially not the last one.

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Tried pipes a while (15 years ago) for about a week and found that my sense of taste was greatly diminished.

Was interested in chew until I found out that there is crushed glass in most of it in order to help it anchor itself to your gum and cheek.

Never started cigarettes.  I actually started burning cigars when I was about 12 but never really smoked them. I would have my dad buy them when we would go hunting so I could light them and stick them in my hatband because the smoke kept the bugs off us.  

They smelled nasty, so I went with him the next time as asked the guy who was selling them if there were any that didn't smell as bad, there were, but they were more expensive. Dad wouldn't kick for the extra cost so I had to dip into my lawn cutting funds to buy the better ones. The biggest problem was that they didn't keep burning like the Tiparillos so I had to give them a pull every so often to keep them lit.

After a few years I just kept asking for better tasting cigars, and that's how I started appreciating Cigars, and finally moved on to Cubans.  I still smoke them when I hunt.

HPG

You are addicted to a drug.

It can and does cause cancer.  If only negative feedback worked I'd post pix of some of patients with parts of their face, jaws, teeth, larynx, and even eyes missing because of this!  But it wont help I'm afaid, not to mention the confidientiality issue.

It stinks.  Your clothes smell, your breath smells and you might as well ask your escorts if they mind licking the bowl of your pipe as ask them to DFK.

You make it sound glamorous.  Sophisticated, worldly.  When in fact it's passe and vile.

Wouldn't your life be just fine without it? I'm sure there are people in your life who would like to not see you get cancer and who worry that you might.

Do yourself and those who love you a favor and quit.

Re:Does anybody else here smoke a pipe?

Mark Twain said "A pipe gives a wise man pause to think, and a fool something to shove in his mouth!"  Have smoked a pipe for over 25 years, and find it a pleasant and inexpensive habit. I blend my own mixture, and smoke about three pipe fulls per day. I have been regularly checked and have no adverse problems.  I also find that people generally are not as obnoxious to pipe smokers as they are to cigar and cigarette smokers.  The only draw back is when some lovely lady says," Oh, I love the smell of a pipe, it reminds me of my Grandfather."

Re:Does anybody else here smoke a pipe?

I'm a pipe smoker, but I limit my use of it pretty closely, more and more.

To be honest, lighting up is almost as good as sex. With some good scotch, neat, maybe better.

puff on, dude.
MT

if you catch my drift.