Originally Posted by
JimmyHAD
TBH I've been smoking tobacco for 52 years. Every month I think about quitting completely and I let my tobacco run dangerously low. At the absolute last minute I order another couple of pounds and start the cycle over again. If I was more committed to continuing to smoke I'd probably have a tobacco cellar (figuratively speaking) but I keep thinking about hanging it up.
Much harder to give up pipes than cigarettes I think. Cigarette tobacco tastes like hot air, and there is nothing comely about a cigarette or the pack they come in. A pipe OTOH, is a beautiful object, and the tobacco is divine. I don't inhale a pipe, so as bad as it is, it is not as bad as the cigarettes. My father smoked a pipe (a lot) until a week before he died at 84. If I last as long as he did I have 17 years left to enjoy.