And the first one is the most important. Probably you do not get any pleasure from the first smoking of a pipe, but you should not despair. Try and you will succeed. In view of all told above I will try to facilitate your undertakings.
1. - always smoke the fresh, relaxed, pure and dry pipe. If there is in a pipe not burnt down tobacco after the last smoking it will taste bitter. Certainly clean a pipe with the special tool. Having cleaned a pipe after smoking, allow it to cool down, and leave it to rest at least for one day.
2. - always use well humidified tobacco. If you do not buy fresh tobacco in a tobacco shop from humidor and do not store it well packed, the tobacco dries up easily. Dry tobacco burns quickly and hotly and it is completely not useful neither for a pipe, nor for you. On the other hand, tobacco should not be over damped. Such tobacco is difficult for lighting up, it badly burns, it is difficult to be inhaled that will compel you to "puff" more assiduously, and you will inhale hotter smoke.
Perfect conditions for tobacco storage are almost the same as for cigars: about 70 % of humidity and 18°C. Certainly, it is difficult to support such conditions precisely and it is not strictly necessary. If you do tobacco stores keep it as in shop in special tobacco glass or porcelain humidors, or in the big hermetic glass pots. Tobacco packs are usually hermetic so that if you do not store their long abroach, you will have time to smoke tobacco, while it is fresh. If you smoke not often it makes sense to put in a tobacco pouch 1 or 2 thin slices of an apple.
3. - fill a pipe correctly. This ability will come with experience, but you should know, that too densely and too poorly filled pipes will be smoked hotly and will burn a tip of your tongue. There are many ways of filling a pipe. But their essence is always resulted to the fact that the pipe should be filled steady and accurately so that at pressing with finger on the tobacco filled in a tube, it should spring slightly. At first fill a cup completely, but with free tobacco Tamp with finger to the half, so that it spring slightly. Repeat it few times. The most convenient is to fill a pipe with tobacco in three steps, consistently accurately tamping it with finger or with the special tool.
4. - getting a light a pipe is better with wooden matches or with a gas lighter. Do not use cardboard matches or petrol lighters; - there are special lighters for pipes. Tobacco absorbs very easily unrelated smells, therefore to use for lighting up tobacco something except matches or butane is not necessary. By the way, matches are more preferable as temperature of butane burning is higher, than a tree, and the lighter flame can burn a pipe.
5. - do not hesitate to light-up the pipe often. Many beginners believe that skilled smokers get a light from the first time, and that using for lighting up some matches, it will give out in them a beginner. Do not hesitate; use as many matches, as it is necessary. Two matches for lighting up you will need only in the championships in pipe smoking. Use as many matches, as you need - manufacturers of matches will love you!
6. - be not afraid to use brushes during smoking. Very often during smoking the pipe starts to gurgle. Especially often it happens with swept pipes where the moisture accumulates easily. A sound is disgusting and drops of the sated with nicotine moisture at hitting in a mouth leave very unpleasant feeling. That’s why, as soon as a pipe begins to gurgle, put a brush safely in the air channel of a pipe and blot moisture, and after that smoke easily. In general for condensate not to accumulate on the bottom of a cup there are special crystals "DENICOOL" from company "DENICOTEA" Germany which are put on a cup bottom before filling a pipe with tobacco.
7. - Remember that pipes need to be changed every day. The pipe should have a rest not less than one day before you will smoke it again. For this purpose it should have a special place, use special supports for pipes: single, two-placed, or for several pipes if you have several of them. There can not be too many pipes. That’s why you can use safely this article as the occasion to go once again in a tobacco shop and to buy a new pipe so that before sleeping to practice once again in pipe seasoning.
8. - never assort a pipe, while it is still warm. It can be broken easily. The pipe should cool down completely before you get a holder from it and start cleaning.
9. - if you have bought the preliminary not seasoned pipe you should necessarily create on walls of a pipe a "shirt" - the thin burnt layer which will protect a pipe from burning. There are many ways of pipe seasoning. Some people advise to grease an internal surface of a cup with a thin layer of honey. I have never resorted to such method, having some pipes which I smoke periodically. I also did not hear anything similar neither from inveterate smokers, nor from manufacturers of pipes whom, believe me, are good judges of it. The shirt is necessary for your pipe to be smoked cool and the cup did not burn through.
10. - and the main thing - to take pleasure in pipe smoking, you need time. A cigarette can be smoked on the run, on work. The pipe is a ritual. Choose an hour or so, take a rest. Let vanity leave you for a while. Slowly and accurately fill a pipe. Lean back in a favorite armchair conveniently. Light it with love and inhale a full mouth of a fragrant smoke. Let out a puff and feel, as all your problems are dissolved. Your hand is heated by the gentle and faithful girlfriend, and in its beauty, in crinkles of tree veins and smooth lines, you will open for yourself something new each time. Such beauty and allegiance is sometimes difficult to find in women, than in pipes.
That’s why, love pipes; at least, they never change!