1-2 on days I can get to my pipe. Being an early morning and late evening outdoors smoker, I find the cold weather can keep from getting a good relaxing bowl in. I'm going to try putting an exhaust fan in my garage so I can puff in there. Anybody else have obstacles like this?
Usually 3-4 a week. I do not have a lot of free time between work, and the family. SWMBO does not approve of smoking around the kids, so i have a bowl when I can find "me" time.
four or five a day for me. It is getting colder here in New England so that number will drop a bit (I'm a porch smoker) but I like to have a relaxing smoke after I eat dinner so that evening smoke in a country gentleman cob happens whether it is 80 degrees or a blizzard!
Never really counted. Hazarding a guess...maybe six or so. It's one of those numbers I really don't track.
Part of the reason...I'll be working and forget to properly tamp, the pipe goes out and I'll put it down. Some undefinable time later, I'll pick up another pipe that's in the current rotation, fill and light it, smoke for a while...repeat. I may have three-four pipes half or 3/4ths smoked at any one time; eventually I will get around to re-stoking them up. Cycle probably repeats twice a day...
I probably don't average a bowl a day, overall for the year. It just depends on how busy I am. If I am lucky and have the time, I might smoke 2 to 3 bowls on a given day. I smoke cigars as well, so that can cut into my pipe smoking time to some degree.
Since retiring from the Steel Mill my smoking has decreased significantly. When I was working (at least until the company enacted a non-smoking ban in offices and enclosed shanties during my last few years there) I had my pipe in my mouth a majority of the day. It might just as well have been a part of my tool belt. Then later in my career I suffered a serious back injury which required surgery - so management thankfully found me work in the office till I accumulated enough time to retire and collect my pension. Well the offices were the first place the no smoking policy was enacted - and just as I got comfortable sitting behind a desk all day puffing a pipe like some dashing 50s' advertising executive, it all came to a crashing conclusion.
But in retrospect, although I was constantly smoking I don't think I enjoyed it half as much as I do now that I'm retired, and smoke in a leisurely manner only two or three bowls a day during the winter months - and maybe three to four in the spring, summer, and fall when I can go outdoors. I'm smoking less - but enjoying it more.
For me, it's two at the most because when I begin to smoke I practically go to all stop. Mulling mode, so to speak. I like long smokes in the range of an hour to an hour and a half. When driving around I get a chance to smoke for a half an hour but otherwise, it's too involved for me. I suppose when I'm retired things will change but for now, one or two seems just about right.
1-2 per weekday if I'm lucky and maybe 3-4 on a weekend. Like mentioned above I come to full stop, coffee, book and pipe. Very occasionally I will drive and smoke, but I don't drive so much and it's difficult to smoke on a bicycle
I smoke on an unheated Porch in cold and inclement weather so when it's severely cold I dress up like Nanook of the North. Heavy pants, shirt, socks, vest, scarf, Wool watch cap, old insulated 3/4 coat and gloves, all for a smoke. Yes, it's worth it to me.
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Being an early morning and late evening outdoors smoker, I find the cold weather can keep from getting a good relaxing bowl in. I'm going to try putting an exhaust fan in my garage so I can puff in there.
Anybody else have obstacles like this?
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Since retiring from the Steel Mill my smoking has decreased significantly. When I was working (at least until the company enacted a non-smoking ban in offices and enclosed shanties during my last few years there) I had my pipe in my mouth a majority of the day. It might just as well have been a part of my tool belt. Then later in my career I suffered a serious back injury which required surgery - so management thankfully found me work in the office till I accumulated enough time to retire and collect my pension. Well the offices were the first place the no smoking policy was enacted - and just as I got comfortable sitting behind a desk all day puffing a pipe like some dashing 50s' advertising executive, it all came to a crashing conclusion.
But in retrospect, although I was constantly smoking I don't think I enjoyed it half as much as I do now that I'm retired, and smoke in a leisurely manner only two or three bowls a day during the winter months - and maybe three to four in the spring, summer, and fall when I can go outdoors. I'm smoking less - but enjoying it more.