Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

Nope, not addicted to cigars.
Most everything else, yes. I often go long periods without smoking a cigar. It's more of a fair weather bad habit than a daily bad habit. If it's nice out and I'm out in it, I love having a cigar with me. Once the garden comes into play, I don't smoke as much because I don't smoke around the plants. (Tobacco mosaic virus tears them up.)
Cigar smoking is a very special treat for me, and I work really hard to keep it that way. I want to enjoy it for a long time to come. :tu

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

No. I've been addicted to cigs and chew. When I was without cig/dip I'd think about it constantly. I would get headaches and become irritable. I can go days and weeks without cigars but I'd prefer to keep it at days:D

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

I smoke five a day on average and can do without just fine.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

I'd kill for a cigar right now....but other than that I'm feeling just dandy.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

No

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

nope, sometimes I go months without a cigar, and I regularly go weeks without smoking at all.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

no... i smoke on weekends only usually... need more friends who smoke... i have a bunch of friends who quit cigarettes and are scared to give cigars a real try because they feel it would lead back to cigarettes...

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

If that's true, then why are you posting on the Asylum, HMMMMMM???

Kidding! Only kidding. Mostly. Well, not really. :fu

Anywhoosit, I think that inherently, cigars contain nicotine, thus do have some potential for physical addiction at the very least. Speaking from extensive pipe experience (and limited cigar exp) it's definitely mostly a psychological addiction.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

Yes. I am addicted.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

Nope. Now shopping for cigars, yes I am addicted.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

Not to cigars, but this forum maybe:r

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

I am with not-so-stupid on this one.
Some of it sounds good to me. But as a former smoker for SOME time, I KNOW what nicotine addiction
is like. The only problem you ever run into is with know-it-alls, in my case my mother, a dear woman
and a nurse, who believes everything she reads by do-good, best-intentioned family practitioners with no
knowledge of oncology, but who love to get paid to write articles for Parade newspaper insert mags
about how bad cigar smoking is for you and how it is as addictive as cigarettes, and it makes you go
blind and impotent, etc.

Just insert your personal busybody in place of my mother and you will get an earful of all this valuable
health info theyuncovered. Probably in a fortune cookie. You can REALLY want a cigar, but you will
not likely become an abrasive, jittery @$$}{)Le for one. You get nicotine, yes, and I know this because
I often use a cigar to get over quitting withdrawals with some success.

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

Yeah, I think the big thing is, you don't get addicted to cigars, you get addicted to nicotine, and as a nicotine delivery device, cigars are cumbersome, time consuming and have a very slow delivery system, so they simply are not condusive to addictive behavior. If I were addicted to nicotine, I would just start smoking cigarettes again rather than trying to milk my fix out of an expensive luxury product. Cigars are for relaxing and enjoying the flavor of a quality product, about slow, reflective time alone or with friends, they are not about a cheap fix. :2

Re: Are you addicted to cigars?
 

I don't really know if I am, since I am addicted to cigarettes I am not sure....I am trying to quit smoking cigarettes though, down to 8 a day from 20 a day ;)