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Being a noob, I can still keep track. Kinda.

When I had my first really good cigar, and realized I was hooked, I started saving the bands and writing little notes on em. Date, and "grades" a through f. And if there was room, maybe a detail. I started doing this before I learned of the proper terms for "tasting notes" so some read "hard pull, burnt hair" others "good cheap beer gar" and on.

I still keep track of every stick I smoke with a note on the band. Usually just a date.

To the point, got a box on my porch from cbid with about 30 cigars (just in time, only had 7 left) and wife asked why I needed 30 cigars. I explained the need to acclimate them to the proper environment before smoking and that by the time I get through the last of what I have in two to three weeks, these might just be about ready. She rolled her eyes n walked away. (She will take a puff or two and has commented some are good/bad- actually has good taste, just not interested)

TL;DR - I counted my saved bands and had 77 unique bands and 32 repeats. 109 cigars since I've learned to enjoy cigars sometime around late spring early summer 2013.


Anyone else have an approximation of how many sticks they've burned? I now have about 40 on hand (lots of open trades, hope this will increase a bit) and now that I have cleared the garage for smoking, have been burning 5 a week. Will probably slow some once the weather breaks but for now its my "fun time"

Around 8,000 and counting, not including swisher sweets, backwoods and a lot of crappy cigars smoked early on. I also smoked a pipe primarily for at least a decade or so. If you add the crappy cigars and the ones I forgot about it's gotta be about 10,000. I began keeping a list a few years ago, mainly so I wouldn't buy any more cigars that I already smoked and didn't like.

4-10 a day depending on weather for the past decade or so. 2-4 a day the previous decade.

So yeah that's more than a few!

Similar story here. Really getting into cigars at the moment but as the seasons change, other hobbies will take priority.

Oh my. It's best I don't think about it. Seriously......

Been smoking real cigars for nearly 4 years, and averaged one a day for first two years, about one and a half (some days one and 2 on other days, usually weekends) for about a year. Now I'm smoking at least two per day. That makes about 1,600 - 1,700.

A local that I used to go to when I first started getting into smoking last year gave me his monthly calendar and suggested I tape the bands onto the dates that I smoked. It's kinda nerdish but kinda fun to got back and see how my tastes have changed. I'll probably continue to do this for this year but most likely stop after this year.

For this topic I'd guesstimate 300 "real" cigars lifetime.

those other ones don't count hillbilly.

I couldn't possibly know, never tried to keep track. but I'm sure its thousands.

>50 < 100

About 32,120 give or take a 1,000.

I think it would be safe for me to say TOO MANY

TNTC - to numerous to count. That's what happens when you are a FOG

I now have more on hand than I've ever had before, and it's 50% of all the cigars I've ever smoked.

Sat down tonight with a calendar and glued the bands onto the dates I smoked em on, and put a note with those I could remember/transcribed notes from the bands that had em.

Pretty surprised at how varied my tastes have been even in the short time I've been smoking.

Started smoking cigars in 1992. Casually at first. Some handmades, but many machine made. Got more into the whole thing in 1995. Smoked around 1-2 handmades per week.

In 2002, found this place and started smoking more. Maybe as many as 5 per week. Have switched my preferences to pipes, but still occasionally smoke cigars.

Maybe 1000-1500 handmade cigars total? Hundreds of machine made also. Have smoked my way through a couple dozen different tins of pipe tobacco.



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Without having to think real hard and do some real math, gonna guesstimate my count to be at least 2,500.

At this point, I’d say about 30-35. Didn’t smoke more than 5 a year until I joined this forum. Now I smoke about one a week. Still figuring my likes and dislikes.

Prolly well over 10K in 20 years. At that rate I have about 4 years inventory.

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