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s we enter 2024 and celebrate another year, we here at Smokingpipes are excited for new releases ahead for pipes, tobacco, cigars, and all of our other useful products for the smoker. Now, we reflect on our goals and dreams for the new year. Here are some of our staff's pipe-smoking resolutions for 2024. Let us know in the comments below what your goals are for this year.

Truett Smith

My pipe-smoking resolution for 2024 is to create an outdoor patio space for regular pipe smoking — with a table and chairs, and maybe even a fire pit. I currently have no consistent place to smoke at home, so building a dedicated area will both encourage me to enjoy a pipe more frequently in the evenings and facilitate a more communal and comfortable environment for friends and fellow pipe smokers.

Alan Britt

My pipe-smoking resolution this year is to expand more into English blends. I've always been a Virginia and Virginia/Perique smoker, and admittedly, my knowledge of Latakia-forward blends is a bit lacking. This year I hope to change this one bowl of Latakia at a time!

Phillip Kisling

My resolution is simple: Smoke more of my cellar. I have something like 20 pounds of tobacco and it taunts me. How can I justify a new tin when I have 30 old ones staring me down? I mean you'd be shocked at the mental gymnastics I can go through to justify it, but I think it'd be much easier just to smoke the stuff.

Stephen Mawby

My resolution for 2024 is to take time to focus on enjoying my pipe-smoking experience. Much of the time, I'm smoking a pipe so that I can try out new blends, or I'm smoking while distracted by work, or both. I want to re-focus on enjoying the process to get the best experience possible.

Sykes Wilford

I want to do more tobacco experimentation in 2024 than I did in 2023. I sometimes get stuck in a rut with tobacco selections — lately it's been a whole lot of G. L. Pease Cairo — and find it difficult to broaden back out. A few things in late 2023: Anthology from C&D, Samuel Gawith Burnt Ends, and some really nice, aged Solani 633 reminded me how much fun it is to smoke a wide variety of tobaccos, but I've spent most of the year just smoking the same couple of old favorites. Now, there's nothing wrong with G. L. Pease Cairo. It's excellent. Nor is there anything wrong with C&D's Sunday Picnic, but if that's all I'm smoking, and it more or less has been, then there's all sorts of fun stuff I'm missing out on out there.

Chuck Stanion

A couple of New Year's resolutions ago I made myself immortal, but it was a mistake. I don't have enough tobacco stored to last that long. In fact, I'm down to a couple of years' worth of my favorites, which are irreplaceable because they're no longer made.

So I'm making changes for this year's resolution. No more immortality, that's for sure; I'd never build enough tobacco inventory to cover that. I'm reducing my life expectancy to something more workable — say, 30 more years or so — and dedicating myself to building my tobacco cellar to fill those years.

For 2024, I'll be buying at least one tin of tobacco I'm unfamiliar with every week, and I'll keep doing that until I find some blends that are equal to my previous favorites and then purchase all that I can reasonably hide from my wife. When I'm retired and smoking on my front porch, yelling at neighborhood kids to stay off my lawn, I want to be smoking good tobaccos. In 2024, I'll find them.

Andy Wike

As we enter into this new year, I'm faced with an admittedly privileged problem: I have too many pipes that, for one reason or another, I just don't smoke anymore. Mostly it comes down to size. For the past several years, I've gravitated toward smaller pipes — typically classic shapes ranging from Group 1 to Group 2 in size. I still love how lightweight, portable, and easy to clench they are; I just wish the chambers were larger.

It all started a few months ago when I picked up a Stack from Chris Asteriou. In terms of chamber proportions, it's among the largest pipes I've ever owned, but it weighs just 32 grams. After finding myself reaching for that pipe over and over again to the neglect of others in my collection, I realized that I don't prefer small pipes, necessarily, but lightweight pipes. In other words, I'm having a mid-life pipe crisis (mid-pipe crisis?).

So my pipe-smoking resolution for 2024 is to refresh and update my collection with pieces that excite me as much as my recently acquired Stack. I don't have specific shapes or makers or styles in mind; instead, I plan on paying close attention to what we put up here at Smokingpipes and just following my curiosity. Rather than framing my search based on information that's no longer relevant to me, I want to approach pipe collecting with the wonder and excitement of someone just entering the hobby.

Shane Ireland

My pipe-smoking resolution for 2024 is to focus on the curation of my pipe collection. I need to spend time with pipes in my collection that I don't reach for as often as others to figure out if I need to find a better pipe and tobacco combination that gives me a better experience, or to trade them towards new acquisitions. My tobacco preferences are pretty well-formed these days, so I intend to pivot towards my pipe rotation for experimentation.

Kayla Ivan

Though I'm not a pipe smoker, my pipe-smoking resolution for this year is to continue learning about this unique hobby, with all of its intriguing rabbit holes and terminology that cannot be found elsewhere. Aside from that, I am hoping to read at least one nonfiction book a month and one fiction book a month — nonfiction to learn and grow, fiction to leave room for my imagination to blossom — as well as to achieve some health, fitness, and financial goals I've set for myself.