cigaretts

timevans107

what is the fundimenal differances between cigaretts and cigars. are the health risks the same as cigaretts? i find myself more involved with gigars but want to know more about thr highs and lows about them for my own. im a 20 year cigarett smoke and jumping into cigars. info will be greatly appreciated.

 

kuzi16

madurofan

phobicsquirrel

Good for you Maddy! I've never smoked cigarettes and I have a hard enough time picking up bits of flavor in a cigar. Getting better but it's taking some time. I do remember seeing a guy smoke a cigar like a cigarette and I was amazed. That was way before I started smoking cigars so I didn't know.

madurofan

Thanks phobs. I've lapsed a time or two and picked up a cigarette but I then I just remember how much it took to quit that first time and I stop again.

bbc020

madurofan

Interesting Brandon. It didn't seem to work that way for kuzi or myself. Whatever works for you, is the best way I guess.

bbc020

madurofan

I get that 'cool' factor. I still want to light up a cigarette in some situations for that reason, its odd. Not a cool factor like 'man, I'm cool smoking a cancer stick' more like if I'm just standing somewhere doing nothign people will be like 'whats that guy doing', if I'm smoking its 'he's over there smoking'. No awkwardness.

phobicsquirrel

wouldn't a big cigar be more of a cool factor?

bbc020

no awkwardness....that's what addiction is all about, covering up that "awkwardness" or fear, wheter it is a physical/chemical fix from a drug, or via mental/chemical fix (chemical produced by the brain)....it's just a little more pronounced in drug addicts. In fact it permeates their whole lives until....well, something happens.

madurofan

phobicsquirrel:

wouldn't a big cigar be more of a cool factor?

Indeed

madurofan

bbc020:

no awkwardness....that's what addiction is all about, covering up that "awkwardness" or fear, wheter it is a physical/chemical fix from a drug, or via mental/chemical fix (chemical produced by the brain)....it's just a little more pronounced in drug addicts. In fact it permeates their whole lives until....well, something happens.

huh, never thought about it.

phobicsquirrel

NatGeo had a good program on the "drug war" and they talked a lot about how addiction was more pronounced from manufactured drugs than natural drugs. wonder why... we humans know how to make things much worse.

Bad Andy

Krieg

I have never smoked cigarettes, and never plan to, but I love the taste of a good cigar. One of the big differences between a cigar and a cigarette is the amount of nicotine. As a cigar is made through aged tobacco, and as the tobacco ages, it loses nicotine. Typically, when a cigar is rolled, the tobacco leaves have around 2-3% of nicotine per leaf. Unlike cigarettes, which have much more, not to mention all the other additives to get you addicted, like Arsenic. There is always risk in smoking tobacco, but IMO, cigarettes are more dangerous than cigars. I tend to stay moderate in my cigar smoking, I smoke maybe 1 or 2 cigars a week, that way I can minimize my health risk.

kuzi16

kuzi16

jlmarta

I came across an article regarding heart disease related to smoking at: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/5/802#top from the Oxford Journals that I found interesting although a bit long and dry to read. In it, they compared men who had never smoked to men who smoked 1-2 cigars per day, 2-4 per day, etc. and what I came away with was that a guy who smoked 1-2 per day has only a 1.2% greater risk of heart disease than the guy who never smoked at all. To my way of thinking, that's almost as good as no risk at all. And, when you consider that I only smoke a cigar about every other day, the risk is even lower. I focused on heart disease because I happen to have it but the article also deals with cancer, I believe.

kuzi16

Krieg

kuzi16

the theory is that cigars promote relaxation. when you relax and reduce stress its good for your body in general.