Puffing
When you smoke a cigar, you don't need to swallow the fume into your lungs but to taste and sample it. The clue to be pleased with your stogie is to pull the smoke in, allow it to twirl in your mouth, smack it like a nice drink, and then free it from your mouth.
It may sound a little snobbish but some aficionados consider a cigar between their lips as a sign of might. However, remember that the process of smoking generates spittle which leads to stogie dampening. Thus it begins corking the air hole and destroying the draw.
While smoking, allow the ash drop down as it has to. A worthy cigar gathers about 1/2 inch of ash at its end prior to falling down as you flip it in the tray.
There is one more convenient way to take pleasure in the stogie, namely, to sip it by making a deep and fulfilling inhaling when settling the stick between your lips - not to the teeth as in the case with a cigarette.
Give your stogie a little rest (30 sec to 1 min) between puffs. The cigar will be chiller, as it is not pressed in your mouth, people surrounding you can easily comprehend your conversation.
The cigar doesn't resemble a cigarette which burns away if not puffed. This happens because tobacco in cigar is too oily to burn with no oxygen (the source of which is you). You should know that the composition of majority of the cigarettes includes certain additives and blackpowder to stimulate burning whereas tobacco leaf in hand rolled stogies has no chemicals. In case your cigar is out, slightly flip the ash extra amount off the tip and then kindle it once again just in the same way as you did at the beginning.
Do not leave your stogie unpuffed more than half of an hour. If you, after all, let it go out, it will become bitter in taste when relighting it because of the collected nicotine and tar at the tip.
Be careful: cigar stub left in the ashtray will start evolving a nasty flavor in about half of an hour. In case you are smoking at home, do not annoy your family with this smell and thoroughly clean your house from cigar's remnants. Give the stogie 20 minutes at least to make certain that it is absolutely out and then throw it into the trash-can.
Ash-pots: take a rest, dear stogie
Ashtray plays the same important role in your life as other cigar accessories and it is a necessary object in your smoking collection. An ashtray is not only a container for your stogies, it is also a kind of "resort" for your favorite baby.
A cigar demands a special treat and savoring. You cannot afford yourself puff frequently; otherwise the superfluous oxygen will force the stick burn faster and hotter, producing bitter resins and oils. If you allow your stogie to burn slowly, the heat at its end (the one that you lit) will minimize and the cigar will be safeguarded from letting out some special volatile chemical agents.
A long-awaited rest in an ashtray is what your tired baby really needs while you puff it. If you are an active speaker and hold the stogie for 30 min and even more, a good ash-pot could be a great help for both your stogie and you.