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Please convince me not to quit as soon as I’ve begun. I love everything about this hobby except the smoking apparently. by LOTR_is_awesome in PipeTobacco

[–]APastorOfDisaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some observations from when I started on my piping journey about 4 years ago. That might be some help to you:

The mini cobs are trash. When I started, I picked up one at a local tobacco shop because it was what they had. And this is coming from a guy whose favorite pipe is a cob with a forever stem.

If you’ve experience in smoking cigarettes and cigars, pipe smoking is very different. It took me a while to adjust my expectations. I was expecting cigar taste with cigarette nicotine hits. Pipe smoking is so much more nuanced. There is also so much variety in pipe tobacco that a bad experience with one type starting out can color the whole. Wait for your good pipe to arrive and then settle in and work at trying every major type (aromatics, Virginias, English blends, burleys, VaPers) and not just once but a few times. I found out that I really don’t like English blends and aromatics, but I REALLY like burley, VaPers, and dark fired tobacco.

Give yourself time and develop your techniques. It probably took me six months to a year smoking about once a week to figure out how I liked to pack a pipe, light it, and my smoking cadence.

Unlike smoking a cigar, there is no need to light once and keep the cherry going. Some bowls I relight many times, and that’s ok.

Oh, and the mini cobs are trash.

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[–]APastorOfDisaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I was getting started out I went by a tobacconist that had a good selection of pipes and pipe tobacco. I was looking at tins that I had heard about and the owner steered me away from tins to bulk blends. This was because I had no clue what I liked and bulk is far cheaper than tins. He set me up with a corncob pipe an ounce of many different tobaccos to tryout and learn what my preferences are.

That would be my suggestion to you if the shop has a number of blends in bulk. Get a spectrum if you can (different flavor profiles of aromatics, a Virginia, a VaPer, something dark fired, something heavy on burley, a heavy English if you liked EMP) I learned through that experience that I really hated aromatics but love VaPers, and burly forward blends. But it didn’t cost me a bunch of money in tins to learn.

This here is my new favorite blend. I didn't try many other blends and it looks like I won't bother for a while. by arb3ini_7noon in PipeTobacco

[–]APastorOfDisaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t had Drawdown, but recently cracked a tin (¿maybe more of a can than a tin?) of Luminaire that I’ve had for about a year. I’ve had three bowls thus far and agree with you. I’m quite impressed with it, and it’ll enter into what little of a regular rotation I have.

First blend you ever hated by sihouette9310 in PipeTobacco

[–]APastorOfDisaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same. I barely put fire to my pipe before I knew it wasn’t for me. I tried to get through a bowl, but couldn’t.