Third times the charm/ How long will you deal with a stick you are not enjoying?

I smoke relatively few cigars per year and at least twice recently I suffered through two quite expensive cigars - one was a plugged Cuban and one was an over humidified PAM - and lived to regret both. :mad:
 
Most of the time I will attempt to smoke through the first third to see if the flavor profile changes. If it stays the same or gets worse it's gone. I'm not about to use what little relaxation time I have to suffer through a turd.
 
I smoked thru all the cigars...ok most of the cigars I have ever lit.
I have smoked the whole cigar even if I didn't like it. As for hard to draw, stay lit, etc...I muddle thru it all and for the most part the cigar shines thru.
Except for perhaps taste. They just don't get better, I just think I won't buy any of these again.
 
I will give a cigar 3/4 of an inch. If it taste like :BS , I will toss it. In Jan. 2008, I tossed 3 DPG Blues within 10 minutes. Something was wrong with those Joe Cigar sticks. I still have some of them, and they taste like :BS . All my other DPG Blues are amazing.

Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!
 
I smoke about a third.....or until it turns to crap then toss it. I have way too many cigars to waste my time smoking something I don't like.
 
Heh heh Have been there before but if I paid more than $7 for the stick I will tough it out and try to find something positive about it. Usually, a good drink will bring back some enjoyment.
 
I don't know whether it's an extreme lack of sophistication, or extraordinary good luck, but in the approx 100 cigars I've had in the last three months, I haven't had one that was really and truly "bad". I've had two, maybe three that I've pitched due to excessive burn or draw problems. The very worst of the 100 just don't really have much flavor to them, except for the tobacco flavor, but I like tobacco (shrugs). They aren't the ones you hand out when someone gets married or has a baby or gets their PhD, and I wouldn't buy them again, knowing what I know now, but even so, they're still not :pu -inducing dog turds, not by a long shot.

But, I'm also willing to admit that I may just have a case of whatever is the opposite of "buyer's remorse", if that has a name. I really couldn't say. I've actually been thinking about this a lot, lately. I'd like to think it's minimal, but how much or our opinion of a particular cigar is really just subjective, purely ancillary BS that doesn't really have anything to do with the actual cigar? Where you bought it, what you paid for it, where, when, and with whom you smoked it, what your expectations were, how you felt at the time, mentally and physically, what kind of day you had at work, that kind of thing. That's a lot of complexity, and you haven't even lit anything yet.

And the cigars, themselves? Plants, weather, fermenters, blenders, rollers, inspectors, owners, shippers, distributors, they're all changing, all the time. Any one of them can radically change the cigar you are lighting up. You may not care for a cigar that you liked a lot, just a year ago, and one that you really hated four years ago may not be even remotely like the same one being made today. The complexities of the cigars, layered on top of the complexities of being living, thinking human beings.

I'm totally fascinated by people's beliefs and opinions, and especially how they came to them, and how much of it we're not even conscious of. Hope I didn't bore anyone to death. I'd feel terrible.
 
I think you should smoke 1/3. Sometimes you may also consider smoking another one of the same blend if it is something that has several positive reviews. (May have been a bad stick or you may have had a drink or ate something that may effect the taste)

Glad you like the Taboo LR Conn:tu Incredible smoke.
 
If I am reviewing it, then I will suffer through it. I feel that I have to push through it in order to be fair.

If it is just for me, though, then I will most likley pitch it. Luckily I haven't really run across too many.
 
I force myself to smoke every smokable inch no matter how painful an experience it is.

but then again, i'm an accomplished masochist.
 
I smoke 'em all to the end. I generally research any purchase so I'm pretty sure it will be a good cigar and if the first half isn't doing it for me, I still smoke it to the end just for "research" if nothing else.

I smoked my least favorite cigar in many, many years (Camacho perfecto) to the end just to see if it had any redeeming value. Answer: none. It was a long way to the end and was just as bad at the end as it was in the beginning.

I've found that, on most cigars I smoke, I like the last third the best so like to stick it out if possible. Big mistake with the Camacho.

WyoBob
 
Depends on what you mean by not enjoying

If you mean that it is a quality cigar but just not your taste, then I smoke it all. Kind of like going to an Indian restaurant or a vegan place when you try something. It doesn't particular taste great. Not enjoying it. But it is quality food and you want to expand your experiences. I mean really none of us took our first sip of beer at 10 years old and went "yeah that's awesome" or coffee. But you aquire tastes.
If its a straight up dog rocket. Bitter. Hot burning. Nasty turd. Then I might give it about a third to half way.
 
I set my personal record yesterday. Pitched one maybe an inch into it. Wasn't drawing right, tasted bad, etc. Through it right into the drink and went inside and got something else.

I think I'm learning from those of you that say life is too short. Solid advice.
:tu
 
tccigar said:
I think you should smoke 1/3. Sometimes you may also consider smoking another one of the same blend if it is something that has several positive reviews. (May have been a bad stick or you may have had a drink or ate something that may effect the taste)

Glad you like the Taboo LR Conn:tu Incredible smoke.
Click to expand...


Agreed (but for the Havana LR Fig). I was gonna light up the Conn but figured since I had a full stomach and it was late in the day, I would give the Havana a go (I love the darker wrappers). Anyways, what a great smoke.....and man can that thing hold an ash. I has it all the way to the beginning of that taboo label before I put it down because the gf was calling me. I came back outside (it was spitting rain (very humid)) to smoke the rest and take a picture of the ash and once I picked it up the ash fell off.....damn humidity! Plus the cigar (it was down to its last 1/3rd) had gotten so moist from the humidity I basically couldn't smoke the rest....what a shame! Anyways, the first 2/3rds were great. Next time I will stay glued to my seat for the whole show.
 
Like many others, I'll usually try to get through the first third. If it ain't doin' it for me after that, I'll pitch it.
 
As soon as Im no longer enjoying it, it goes here.

trash_can.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top