Back when I started this hobby about 5 years ago, I used to smoke weekly with a bunch of vets who become my mentors. They would occasionally talk about this cigar or that cigar that gave them a nasty buzz. I mentioned to them that I had never experienced a buzz from any cigar. They looked at me kind of weird, and from then on out, every week one of them would toss me the lastest full bodied stick for me to try. Antanos, Oliva "Vs", Cains, Master Blends, and finally the new "killer" cigar, the Cain "F". I smoked them all during our herfs, and never felt the slightest buzz. After a while, they figured I must have an iron stomach, and gave up. That started my love affair with full body cigars, the more powerful the better. I could smoke these things on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning before breakfast, etc., and they wouldn't bother me one bit.
About a year and a half ago, I noticed that I started feeling buzzed while smoking some of my favorites. It progressively got worse. After a while, I could only get 1/3 to 1/2 way through a full body cigar before I'd thought I'd lose my lunch. Even something medium body would require snacking the entire time, or I'd get sick to my stomach. It got to the point where the only cigars I could tolerate where mild connies, or cammies like Fuentes and H. Upman Vintage.
Over the past half year or so, I started to add back in some of the old favorites that used to make me ill. I'd feel a slight tinge, but not totally buzzed out or sick like I used to. I really didn't give it any thought until today. This afternoon I was sitting outside the RV reading, and enjoyed a MBIII Torp and a T-52 rob. It wasn't until I threw the butt of the T-52 in the ash tray that I thought "wait a minute, not too long ago, either one of these cigars would have turned me green half way through". So, I guess whatever my problem was, it is now gone.
Have any of you folks experienced a weird cycle like this?
David
About a year and a half ago, I noticed that I started feeling buzzed while smoking some of my favorites. It progressively got worse. After a while, I could only get 1/3 to 1/2 way through a full body cigar before I'd thought I'd lose my lunch. Even something medium body would require snacking the entire time, or I'd get sick to my stomach. It got to the point where the only cigars I could tolerate where mild connies, or cammies like Fuentes and H. Upman Vintage.
Over the past half year or so, I started to add back in some of the old favorites that used to make me ill. I'd feel a slight tinge, but not totally buzzed out or sick like I used to. I really didn't give it any thought until today. This afternoon I was sitting outside the RV reading, and enjoyed a MBIII Torp and a T-52 rob. It wasn't until I threw the butt of the T-52 in the ash tray that I thought "wait a minute, not too long ago, either one of these cigars would have turned me green half way through". So, I guess whatever my problem was, it is now gone.
Have any of you folks experienced a weird cycle like this?
David
