Comments on: Stogie Commentary: How and When Did You Start Smoking?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:26:52 +0000

I smoked cigarettes for awhile but the taste began to annoy me. Then one day, while in a tobacco shop, i decided to get an ACID: Blondie cigar from Drew Estates and it was amazing. Been enjoying them ever since.

By: Jason McDonald

Jason McDonald — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:45:18 +0000

I was twenty four years old, and had never even been exposed to cigars until my very first one. Gurkha Symphony.

My two best friends and I were each expecting our first children (about 6 weeks apart). The first one to pop was scheduled, so the night before the three of us got together and went to our local booze market and thought "why not-it's the thing to do with your first child" and each bought a cigar. None of us had had one before, so we smoked them to the nub and got sick as dogs, but that's where mine started.

A few books, blog reads, and a humidor later, I'm hooked. There is such a culture around cigars. Always more to learn!

By: Alex D

Alex D — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:26 +0000

Like others, I was trying to quit cigarettes. I had smoked a handful of cigars before, mostly when they were offered to me but they always left me unimpressed. To quit cigarettes I resorted to cheap cornerstore swishers, colts and captain blacks knowing I would have something to puff on but not inhale, hence I would quit smoking. A few month of this made me realize that I liked the idea. Cigarettes were a thing of the past but cigars were growing on me. I started looking for other flavors and larger formats but being unaducated I kept buying them at the corner store. Until one day, an old friend (non-smoker) decided to bring me a four year old Montecristo #5 from his father's humidor. It was an eye opener. I immediately started spending most my money on cigars and humidors and all my free time on learning about them.

By: sawyer

sawyer — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:36:47 +0000

I started smoking because…. well, my best friend smoked, so i tryed it, and i was amazed at how, i could just let all my stress go, out that cigar

its like my body relaxed so, i smoke about one a month

keeps me cool

stay chill yall

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:24:27 +0000

Like George, I was a cigarette smoker for about 10 years. Several months after I quit, I started smoking the odd cigar here and there, usually cheap machine mades. I didn't want to addiction back, but I still wanted to enjoy tobacco occasionally. About 8 years ago at a friend's wedding I was given an Ashton, and found out how good premium cigars could be. I smoked every now and then for the next few years, until about two years ago when I started to deliberately read and learn more about cigars, and expanded my horizons a little bit. I now know what I like and what I don't like, and am starting to fill up my humidor.

By: stinkie

stinkie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:20:56 +0000

I don't remember my first cigar but I think it was Cuban Cohiba while on a trip Mexico. I started to get into cigars while in Puerto Rico back in '01 or '02. We were having an after party for customers at a gaming show and a salesmen came through handing out Romeo y Julieta's to everyone. Sitting on the beach at the Ritz-Carlton I thought I could really get into these. I have never looked back.

By: dmjones

dmjones — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:07:52 +0000

My first premium cigar was enjoyed on a short vacation in San Luis Obispo, CA. I was there with a lady-friend and we stopped into the Sanctuary cigar shop. To the best of my memory, it was an Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur. I enjoyed it enough to go back for another the next day.

By: jj

jj — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:09:48 +0000

I went on vacation to Key West bought a few fake cubans and brought them back, did not know they were fake at the time. Got back home and bought a humidor for them. Started filling the humidor up with cigars from the local shop and have been hooked ever since.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:59:53 +0000

My first cigar was a Cuban RyJ that a buddy brought back from Europe. I smoked it in high school, and smoked one or two cigars a year for the next couple of years.

I got into cigars when my wife and I were expecting our first child. I decided to buy a box of cigars to hand out at the birth, and I discovered the amazing variety available. I wasn't sure what to buy, so I picked up a couple samplers. And I was hooked. Six months later, I was operating out of three desktop humidors and looking for more space.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:17:35 +0000

My first premium handmade cigar was smoked back in college. I didn't really enjoy the Phillies and Swishers that guys kept bringing to our card games. There was something about smoking a cigar I did like though and one day when I saw a small humidor in a wine shop I bought a cigar for the card game and was blown away. It was either an H.Uppman of an Avo. I can't remember which, but in comparison to the Phillie blunts it might as well been a Cuban Cohiba. It was a while longer before cigar became the obsession they are for me today, but that got me started down the path and, needless to say, I never went back to drug store cigars again.