Does the cold effect strength/flavor?

[NCRadioMan]

Never noticed a difference.

[wayner123]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with this so far. I wanted to add that I don't change my smoking speed when it's cold. I have just found that the colder the weather, the less flavor or nicotine a cigar has.

I would love to know if someone knew scientifically why this may be happening. Maybe something to do with oils not evaporating due to the excessive cold air on the inhale?

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by wayner123

I would love to know if someone knew scientifically why this may be happening. Maybe something to do with oils not evaporating due to the excessive cold air on the inhale?

I would guess, if it affects you, it has something to do with your body chemistry and not the cigars. In the cold, the body's enzymatic processes slow over 10%, sometimes 20% per degree of temperature below optimum. Slower chemical function, repair, and disposal of local and environmental toxins puts the body below expected function.

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

I would guess, if it affects you, it has something to do with your body chemistry and not the cigars. In the cold, the body's enzymatic processes slow over 10%, sometimes 20% per degree of temperature below optimum. Slower chemical function, repair, and disposal of local and environmental toxins puts the body below expected function.

But wouldn't that mean that the nicotine would effect me more? The experiences I have had, the nicotine effect and/or flavor is less.

[NCRadioMan]

Maybe by the body slowing down, you don't use up your all your blood-sugar so fast. As to the flavor, psychosomatic?

[Rabidsquirrel]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

Never noticed a difference.

I give up. Is that a pair of buttocks holding a gun in your 'tar?

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by Rabidsquirrel

I give up. Is that a pair of buttocks holding a gun in your 'tar?

Why yes, that's Assy McGee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assy_McGee

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by Rabidsquirrel

I give up. Is that a pair of buttocks holding a gun in your 'tar?

Believe it or not, that is a true picture of Greg's upskirt.

Wanye, I too smoke faster and often get more of a nic kick because of that. I find the humid summers make cigars more mushy and tend to crack the wrappers easier. The flavor profiles are different because I speed up the smoking time.