How addicting are cigars?
From my experience as an occasional cigar smoker I can tell you that I don’t find them addicting in the sense of a chemical addiction (or perhaps the chemical addiction is so good it has me fooled). Keep in mind that when I say cigar I mean a real cigar, a handmade, natural cigar, not sold in packs or otherwise machine processed. Anything machine produced is more like a big cigarette in my opinion. I also simply hold the smoke in my mouth, since the point of a cigar is to get the flavors / aromas from the tabacco and the way it was aged. There was a period of time when I smoked at least one cigar a day for about 4 months. I didn’t feel compelled to smoke to satisfy a craving, but moreover I enjoyed the company and conversation that came from sitting down and enjoying a fine cigar over 1-2 hours of “smoke-time”. Now I smoke maybe one a month and still enjoy it very much, but I don’t feel the need to smoke more, nor do I care if I go 2 months between smokes. I don’t feel the nicotine “ru
