Cigar 411 for Beginners
Scott Cuffe
A Smashwords Edition
An Ozark Small Press Production
Copyright 2011 Scott Cuffe
Chapter 1 Why Smoke Cigars?
Chapter 2 How to Select your First Cigar
Chapter 3 How to Cut your Cigar
Chapter 4 How to Light your Cigar
Chapter 5 How to Smoke your Cigar
Chapter 6 Miscellaneous Information
Chapter 1 Why Smoke Cigars?
If you are reading this ebook, first off, thanks for your purchase. This ebook will consider the reader as a true beginner or “Rookie” in the world of Cigars. It is not meant to demean or belittle anyone, but simply, we will start at the beginning with the very basics. I wrote this ebook following the steps exactly as I taught my kids when they became adults and wanted to smoke their first Cigar. In addition, these techniques were taught to my family members and friends when they approached me, a 20 plus year Cigar smoker, and asked for my advice on how to get started. This ebook will not cover everything in the world of Cigars, that would be impossible and too much information for a novice as he or she begins their Cigar Career.
Ask yourself, “Why do I want to smoke a Cigar?” If your answers are, “I want to quit smoking Cigarettes” or “I want to look cool” or “because my friend says I have to.” Run as far away from this ebook and any other sources of information on Cigars. Cigars are not for you.
Cigars may look cool to some people (I was a Uniformed Patrol Officer who smoked Cigars and the citizens in my area thought it was the coolest thing they ever saw) but I don’t smoke them for that reason. I smoke Cigars to relax, to dwell on the fine things in life and to share my time with family and friends who take time out of their busy lives to share themselves with me.
The difference between a Cigar and Cigarette smoker: have you ever seen a Cigar smoker running through an airport, frantically looking for the smoking room, to get a smoke? Cigarette smokers NEED their Cigarettes, Cigars lovers DESIRE a Cigar at the right time and place. Addiction is not often associated with Cigar smokers. Cigarette smokers can steal a puff in a few seconds; a Cigar smoker spends 30-60 minutes on a single Cigar. Cigarette smoke is purposely inhaled by the smoker, circulated throughout the lungs and blown out the nose or mouth. The Cigar smoker purposely attempts to NEVER inhale the Cigar smoke and always blows the smoke that was inside their mouth area --out of their mouth and not through the nose.
Cigarette smokers can indeed also be Cigar smokers; but they are more prone to accidently inhale the Cigar’s smoke. Recently I taught my neighbor the art of Cigar smoking by going through this ebook exactly as it is laid out here for the reader. He was excited, listened, read, learned and was a very eager student (describes most new Cigar smokers by the way). The only issue he had a few times in the early days was that as he talked to me, he didn’t pay close attention and accidently inhaled the smoke from his Cigar. Our conversation stopped until he could fully recover. Lack of breath, headache, stomach ache, dizziness, etc., usually happens when a Cigar smoker inhales fully on his or her Cigar.
Cigar smokers lightly puff or draw on their Cigars, trying to get the smoke to travel from the lit end all the way through the Cigar to their mouths. Deep Inhalation is not a term used by Cigar smokers; instead gentle, light, purposeful actions are done on the Cigar. The idea or goal of the Cigar smoker is to get a mouthful of Cigar smoke without causing the smoke to travel into the lungs. Of course, some smoke usually does get past the mouth cavity and into the lungs, but there is a great difference from just a little and a complete full lung’s worth of smoke. Experience will, I am sure, help teach you how not to repeat that process. The Cigar smoke flavors the mouth and we all know that lungs have no taste buds.