How I arrived at Cigars? Well, in the fall of 2008, I was at an outdoor craft show and noticed a group of reformed smokers, in effect, picking on a 60 year old grandmother type. Now she is an absolute sweetheart and a joy to have at a show and she does need to have her cigs. I watched how other crafters picked on her and made her feel less than a person because she needed to smoke. That is sad! On Sat afternoon, chatting with her, I decided that if I had a cheap and I mean cheap, cheap cigar, that no one would pick on her. You see, I am a gimp. I use a cane. I cannot walk more than about 500 meters, without having my cane handy. So my thought was, "Let them pick on me, there will be 2 of us, and since no one wants to pick on a gimp, I could in effect shield her from a little of the unkind words that had been said to her.
OK, I had this cigar that cost about $1.25 and it was harsh but as I smoked it, I began to notice that there was a slight decrease in the felt discomfort from the spinal stenosis and nerve damage. It took me about 4 days to smoke the entire cigar, but each time I did for about 15 minutes, I noticed a slight decrease in the back pain. I wonder why? I did a quick search and found that there was connection to pain relief and nicotine. Wonder of wonders.
I picked up a cheap cigar from the gas station and this was as far as I was willing to go with this experiment. Each time I did have a cigar, I had a noticed pain reduction for a period of 60 to 120 minutes. On a day when the pain level is up at 8 or 9, having a pain reduction of a magnitude or 2 makes a huge difference in the daily level and how you feel at the end of the day.
I began to try some better cigars, one at a time and soon noticed that better cigars brought much increased pain relief. R&J, Cohiba, Punch-Punch, Montecristo have all been tried and are preferred by me.
So just know that if you need a break and have an hour or so to do so, try a good cigar sometime!
Cheers - David :)
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