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Post by olbluesmoke on Feb 29, 2024 17:09:53 GMT -5
I've noticed some people quit smoking the pipe and then come back.
Tell us your story, if this is you.
8 years ago, I had a mass growing in my right frontal lobe that needed to be removed. At the same time, unfortunately, I was getting a divorce. There was just too much going on to relax with a pipe. I've been back smoking for 5 years now. Doc said tobacco wasn't a factor in the development of the glioma.
All is good now.
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Post by urbino on Feb 29, 2024 17:25:09 GMT -5
Yikes. That's rough, Geoff. Glad you came through it.
My smokables went up in a fire in 2005, pipes and all. Didn't have the heart to get right back into it. I smoked stogies for a few years after that, then quit altogether. I guess I got bored during the COVID lockdown, because I picked back up with the pipe.
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Post by username on Feb 29, 2024 17:32:41 GMT -5
I started in the early 2000s when I was in college but had to stop for a bit as I was living at home at the time and my mom said as long as I lived under her roof no smoking period. So I had to quit till I moved out.
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Post by turbocat on Feb 29, 2024 17:37:02 GMT -5
That’s a rough reason(s) to move away from it, I’m glad you got past all of that!
I drifted away from pipes around 1990 and switched over to mostly cigarettes and occasional cigars throughout the 90’s. Mostly out of convenience in smoking at the time. I picked up pipes again around 2000 as my primary method of smoking, discovered a whole world of tobaccos I had never tried in the 1980’s and it stuck this time around.
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Post by Silver on Feb 29, 2024 18:19:38 GMT -5
Started in 1986 and drifted to cigars in the mid 90s. Came back to pipesmoking in 2020. Still enjoy the occasional cigar.
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Post by Goldbrick on Feb 29, 2024 18:57:29 GMT -5
I started my pipe smoking life in 1979, but still smoked cigarettes. I never really stopped pipe-smoking, but through most of the eighties I laid the pipe aside in hot weather, and picked it back up when pipe-show time rolled around in late September. Here I should note that summer or winter, pipe-smoking or not, I never passed up a chance to snag a good pipe.
Later on, as I left the crazy lifestyle of the eighties behind I picked the pipe back up full time...in 2011 a heart attack made me toss the ciggs aside, and embrace the pipe morning and night, day in and day out!
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Post by trailboss on Feb 29, 2024 21:48:12 GMT -5
About 1982 near the beginning of my career, I had a lone small figural Meerschaum and smoked Tinderbox North Sea (Stokkebye nougat), hauling beef from Nor-cal- So-Cal.
Hung up smoking as I raised my family, both of my parents were chain smokers, and did not to want to be a “bad example” raising kids.
2005, I took up pipe smoking with quite reckless abandon!
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 1, 2024 0:24:37 GMT -5
In 84 we went to Ireland for 2 weeks, and a friend asked me to get him a Peterson. I got him a System Standard and he smoked it twice in 6 months and gave it back to me. I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the local Pipe Pub and got some 1Q. I started liking it but I figured I was kind of young to start smoking. (34)
In 2013, (63), I decided to start up again and looked everywhere for that Peterson that was in my nightstand for 20 years. I guess it got packed away in the 2005 move. Anyway, I started looking on ebay. 220+ and 4600 bucks later,pipes later, I still don't have THAT Peterson.
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Post by urbino on Mar 1, 2024 0:47:58 GMT -5
In 84 we went to Ireland for 2 weeks, and a friend asked me to get him a Peterson. I got him a System Standard and he smoked it twice in 6 months and gave it back to me. I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the local Pipe Pub and got some 1Q. I started liking it but I figured I was kind of young to start smoking. (34) In 2013, (63), I decided to start up again and looked everywhere for that Peterson that was in my nightstand for 20 years. I guess it got packed away in the 2005 move. Anyway, I started looking on ebay. 220+ and 4600 bucks later,pipes later, I still don't have THAT Peterson. knows how you feel. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 1, 2024 21:03:56 GMT -5
In 84 we went to Ireland for 2 weeks, and a friend asked me to get him a Peterson. I got him a System Standard and he smoked it twice in 6 months and gave it back to me. I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the local Pipe Pub and got some 1Q. I started liking it but I figured I was kind of young to start smoking. (34) In 2013, (63), I decided to start up again and looked everywhere for that Peterson that was in my nightstand for 20 years. I guess it got packed away in the 2005 move. Anyway, I started looking on ebay. 220+ and 4600 bucks later,pipes later, I still don't have THAT Peterson. knows how you feel. 😁 |
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Post by CrustyCat on Mar 8, 2024 0:29:18 GMT -5
I didn't quit and come back, but I did quit smoking cigarettes a few years ago. After a while, I decided I wanted to try pipes. It's only been a few years, but I enjoy it when I can. Even have a bunch of cigars and snuff, but I use the pipes mostly.
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Post by Zach on Mar 10, 2024 0:11:54 GMT -5
In 84 we went to Ireland for 2 weeks, and a friend asked me to get him a Peterson. I got him a System Standard and he smoked it twice in 6 months and gave it back to me. I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the local Pipe Pub and got some 1Q. I started liking it but I figured I was kind of young to start smoking. (34) In 2013, (63), I decided to start up again and looked everywhere for that Peterson that was in my nightstand for 20 years. I guess it got packed away in the 2005 move. Anyway, I started looking on ebay. 220+ and 4600 bucks later,pipes later, I still don't have THAT Peterson. Hell, I started pipe smoking at 22 years old, and I’m 34 now. I’d started smoking cigarettes at 15. When I went to the B&M and bought my first pipe, I still left a pack of Camel nonfilters in my car for weeks until they were stale and crispy dry. Never smoked cigarettes again. Have never quit pipe smoking. |
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Post by olbluesmoke on Mar 10, 2024 8:51:38 GMT -5
Yikes. That's rough, Geoff. Glad you came through it. My smokables went up in a fire in 2005, pipes and all. Didn't have the heart to get right back into it. I smoked stogies for a few years after that, then quit altogether. I guess I got bored during the COVID lockdown, because I picked back up with the pipe. That's a significant loss, to be sure...I hope no one was hurt? Glad to have you with us. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2024 9:24:06 GMT -5
In 84 we went to Ireland for 2 weeks, and a friend asked me to get him a Peterson. I got him a System Standard and he smoked it twice in 6 months and gave it back to me. I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the local Pipe Pub and got some 1Q. I started liking it but I figured I was kind of young to start smoking. (34) In 2013, (63), I decided to start up again and looked everywhere for that Peterson that was in my nightstand for 20 years. I guess it got packed away in the 2005 move. Anyway, I started looking on ebay. 220+ and 4600 bucks later,pipes later, I still don't have THAT Peterson. Hell, I started pipe smoking at 22 years old, and I’m 34 now. I’d started smoking cigarettes at 15. When I went to the B&M and bought my first pipe, I still left a pack of Camel nonfilters in my car for weeks until they were stale and crispy dry. Never smoked cigarettes again. Have never quit pipe smoking. You're gonna stunt your growth. 😁 |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 10, 2024 9:34:08 GMT -5
I quit cold turkey in ‘85. Started again just a couple of years ago.
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Post by urbino on Mar 10, 2024 13:09:05 GMT -5
Yikes. That's rough, Geoff. Glad you came through it. My smokables went up in a fire in 2005, pipes and all. Didn't have the heart to get right back into it. I smoked stogies for a few years after that, then quit altogether. I guess I got bored during the COVID lockdown, because I picked back up with the pipe. That's a significant loss, to be sure...I hope no one was hurt? Glad to have you with us. No injuries, no. Thanks. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2024 17:46:24 GMT -5
I quit this forum once and came back. Yep, and you lost all the miles you had built up. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2024 20:33:28 GMT -5
Yep, and you lost all the miles you had built up. Quite the tragedy. Why go on living? Stick around, you never know. |
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 10, 2024 22:38:29 GMT -5
Simple, I never left, not charter member but close
Ed
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 11, 2024 9:06:29 GMT -5
I started about 6 months in after a friend invited me. He's moved on but I'm still here.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 11, 2024 9:11:17 GMT -5
I think the OP’s original intent has been “modified.”
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