What stupid things did you do when you were a newb?

[pearson]

Not mine but I have a military budy that was given a cigar after his missions and he said it was a little harsh on his throut and so was the next one and all the way on to his 5th. Then he found out that he was not suposed to inhale them.

[chippewastud79]

Bought a 100 count humidor, then a 150, then 3 Treasure Domes. Should have just bought the cabinet from the get go. Oh, and I ordered one of those samplers from Thompsons

[robofan]

I bought a box of cigars based on a CA rating alone. It was the "hot cigar" at the time. I tried one and didn't like it at all. It had no flavor. So I thought it must need some age. I let it age for a while and tried it again. Same results. Whenever I get excited about an overly hyped cigar I will light one of them up just to remind myself to never buy without trying first. I also canceled my subscription to CA.

[neoflex]

Hmm I guess as a Newb smoking the stupid things I would do is smoke Phillies(without the green stuff inside) and my premium go to was Te-Amo.
Stupid thing I did as a CS newb was ask about Cubans because I did not know any better but learned the error of my ways quickly.

[yayson]

Originally Posted by vstrommark

Dude - you either did a very funny typo or you are way wound too tight

Just say "I like robustos" and see if my lawyer doesn't contact you whoops

Originally Posted by petewho

I used to think the terms "mild", "medium" and "full body" meant how spicy/peppery a cigar is - not the nicotine content. I would throw away cigars halfway and say, "It was too strong for me! I need something milder" and end up being recommended ANOTHER peppery cigar that's lower in nicotine. Then I'd smoke some triple-ligero cigar that isn't peppery and say, "this is nice and mild". Took me about 20 cigars to realize what these terms meant. I'm still new so this was recent - within the last couple months.

This post reminds me Obi Wan Kenobi playing Jedi mind tricks

[RHNewfie]

I've only been smoking cigars for a couple of years and I am sure that I still do stupid things. Heck, I shoved my draw tool out through the side of a stick just the other day.

I think that the cedar sleeve idea is a great one and cutting certain churchills is not necesarily blasphemous (DT Presidente perhaps )

I did try the biting very unsuccessfully though and puffed a cigar until it was squishy and hot.

[carterwsu]

Started smoking Swishers. Then I got in the habit of buying like 2 or 3 smokes at the local B&M and putting them in my hot car for a couple of days to a week, till I would feel like smoking them. It would be so harsh tasting I would throw the cigar away after an inch or two.

Also, bought from a certain online/catalog vendor, not to be named.

[RHNewfie]

Originally Posted by robofan

I bought a box of cigars based on a CA rating alone. It was the "hot cigar" at the time. I tried one and didn't like it at all. It had no flavor. So I thought it must need some age. I let it age for a while and tried it again. Same results. Whenever I get excited about an overly hyped cigar I will light one of them up just to remind myself to never buy without trying first. I also canceled my subscription to CA.

You HAVE to tell us what it is!!

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by robofan

I bought a box of cigars based on a CA rating alone. It was the "hot cigar" at the time. I tried one and didn't like it at all. It had no flavor. So I thought it must need some age. I let it age for a while and tried it again. Same results. Whenever I get excited about an overly hyped cigar I will light one of them up just to remind myself to never buy without trying first. I also canceled my subscription to CA.

I often did the same, but on that note that is how I discovered Tatuajes so it could go both ways

I also was a one time Thompson's customer, just once though

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by orca99usa

Black and Mild.

My cigar of choice in the mid 90s....used to "punch" them with a ball point pen, too.

[Mullet]

i've done the whole spectrum of dumb stuff. I started smoking cigars in high school when my friends and I were trying our best to choke down a 6 pack of beer on Friday night. I assumed that the sweet taste of the swisher was generally the way all cigars tasted.

I went to my local B&M to buy a cigar for my senior prom. I asked the owner for a recommendation, no more quickly than he recommended his house brand did I select the most gigantic piece of shit cigar in the entire humidor. I smoked it for about 15 minutes for the "coolness" factor of having cigar at the prom, then I tossed it out because it tasted like crap.

Of course, i've bitten my share of caps. But the most newb thing that I used to do was just puff and exhale the smoke right from my mouth immediately. I had no idea how to exhale through the nose until I just figured it out one day. In my opinion, that's the most important thing somebody can learn about smoking cigars because exhaling through the sinus cavity probably yields more than 50% of the actual cigar's flavor. My poor dad still just "puffs" on cigars and thinks anything that's not in a black wrapper is a sissy stick.

[borndead1]

Originally Posted by icehog3

My cigar of choice in the mid 90s....used to "punch" them with a ball point pen, too.

I heard you smoked Gurkhas too.

[Beachjeep90]

First big cigar purchase was a thompson humidor with 100 thompson cigars! Humidor= nice, cigars= puke! Then i used to line them all up so you could read all the labels. I still concider myself a newb, but i dont line them up anymore.

[kgraybill]

On the 1.5 hour trip to go fishing I stashed a stogie in the tackle box. Yep, the catfish bait was open in there to.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by borndead1

I heard you smoked Gurkhas too.

Sadly......very sadly.