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Ginseng said:
Interesting idea.

If you're new to cigars, though, I see you getting burnt out by about week 3. I don't know what your consumption rate has been so far, but to force yourself to smoke a cigar a day could very effectively turn you off to the pleasure you seek to explore more fully.

I salute your desire to search out your ideal cigar. However, as most of us who have been in it for some time have found out, there is no grail at the end of this quest, there is only the pleasure of the quest itself.

Even for a seasoned smoker to undertake this challenge in any meaningful way would require significant amounts of planning and record keeping. Then, you'd have to make sense of all the data.

My advice to you is to file this under "wouldn't that have been a neat thing to try."

Instead, Hang out here, make some connections and start smoking cigars when the spirit moves you. Cigars are not an objective quantity to be examined and counted. Although sometimes we have reasons for doing so. For the majority of smoking opportunities, they are a welcome accompaniment to pleasures both modest and momentous in our lives. If you approach cigars from this perspective, magically, you'll find you'll be smoking very few dog rockets. Conversely, "perfect stogies" will start showing up with astonishing frequency.

Wilkey
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Bravo, very well said!
 
I agree wholeheartedly with those who suggest that cigar smoking is a difficult thing to quantify objectively. My preferred approach is to sample some singles from a short list. You will know fairly soon if you like strong, medium or mild mannered smokes. When you find one that seems interesting, buy a box and try them with different drinks, food, time of day, before/after sex (LOL), etc. When you are smoking out of the box(es) you can still be sampling other new singles. The process can go on for a lifetime. The obvious problem seems to be that as the time passes, your tastes will change. Maybe a little, maybe a lot. Tobacco blends can also change over time.

Kudos to you for trying to think this thing through, at least for planning purposes. Some additional advice: get way more storage capacity than you think you might need; and don't rush trying to find your favorites.

Good hunting!!!

antaean
 
Great idea, I would reccomend you keep a weekly log here on CP. I would bet when everyone sees that you are serious about your journey you will see that there will be assistance to meet your goal forthcoming. Until then, and also as a newbie, I know this could be construed as a suspect way to get people to send you 365 free and different cigars...oops you have upped it to 730 now. So keep a good and accurate and truthful journal/log and the journey will also be something you can look back as your experience grows.
 
there is no grail at the end of this quest, there is only the pleasure of the quest itself.
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Ah very wise young grasshopper . . . your spirit has ascended to the next level of consciousness. ;)

Actually the advice is all very sound. This is the kind of thing that sounds good in theory but never really lives up to the hype in real life (kinda like shot-gunning beers, marriage, Y2K, Pay-Per-View women's boxing, Investing in Beanie Babies, Democrats in the White House :whistling: or New Coke.

I actually tried something similar back in my college days. We decided that instead of buying a keg or a bunch of six-packs that it would be cool to buy one of every beer brand we could find in the city. I woke up the next day sick as a dog and wondering how in the #@!$% I spent $300 on beer the night before.
 
JAEwing said:
This is the kind of thing that sounds good in theory but never really lives up to the hype in real life (kinda like shot-gunning beers, marriage, Y2K, Pay-Per-View women's boxing, Investing in Beanie Babies, Democrats in the White House :whistling: or New Coke.
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:laugh:

I woke up the next day sick as a dog and wondering how in the #@!$% I spent $300 on beer the night before.
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I used to call those days Thursday...
 
Some good advise.i've been smoking cigars for 10+yrs. and my tastes has definetly changed.be patient we have nothing but time.Some of my favorites from back in the day were puros indios #4,and the macabi belicoso fino.they changed the tobacco on macabi,and the #4 i bought a few yrs ago was NOTHING like the first.Now i really like the A. vsg corona gorda,don carlos robust,op. x3,padron 3000, AND(i shouldn't reveal this) don thomas cameroon-a good altern. to don carlos
 
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